Back to School Survival Kit – Back to School Activities – First Day of School Activities

This Paperless Back to School Survival Kit is filled with paperless icebreakers, editable classroom rules and procedures posters, and more first day of school activities. All of the back to school activities are easy, low-stress, and no prep! 160 PowerPoint slides (now included as Google Slides too!) include a variety of projectable games, rules, jokes, and activities that will keep your new students engaged, busy, entertained, and having fun the first day of school and all week long.

The best part is, you don’t need to run to the copy machine to use these back-to-school activities! This entire back to school survival kit is intended for interactive whiteboard use. Included, you will receive:

80 Icebreaker slides

Use these first-day-of-school activities to encourage classroom community building!

• Find a Friend Who…
• ABC’s of Me
• Stand Up/Sit Down
• Skittle Game
• 2 Truths & A Lie
• Hear It, Draw It
• Pack It Up
• Would you Rather?
• The Hot Seat
• Plus—an editable template to create your own!

60 Rules & Procedures* slides

Use these procedural slides to practice expectations!

How to…

• Make Good Choices At Recess
• Make Good Choices At Lunch
• Walk in the Hallway
• Line Up
• Use the Bathroom
• Do a Fire Drill
• Do an Earthquake Drill
• Do a Safety Drill
• Do a Lockdown Drill
• Do a Tornado Drill
• Sit on the Carpet
• Do Indoor Recess
• Do the Morning Routine
• Do the End of the Day Routine
• Organize Your Supplies
• Do Attendance
• Make Your Lunch Choice
• Do Morning Work
• Turn in Your Work
• Take Care of Our Pencils
• Get a Drink of Water
• Get a Tissue
• Turn in Things From Home
• Use the Classroom Library
• Use Our Technology
• Plus—an editable template to create your own!

All About…

• Behavior & Choices
• Homework
• Student Numbers
• Classroom Jobs
• Going to Specials
• Our Schedule
• Our Schedule (Morning)
• Our Schedule (Afternoon)
• Birthdays In Our Room
• Plus—an editable template to create your own!

10 What-If Scenarios slides

• What if my pencil breaks?
• What if I feel sick?
• What if I forget what to do?
• What if I can’t spell a word?
• What if I need a tissue?
• What if I have a question?
• What if I am hurt?
• What if my tooth is loose?
• What if I need paper?
• What if my friend is being mean?
• What if my partner is off task?
• Plus—an editable template to create your own!

10 pages of Just-for-Fun Jokes

• Answers included in “Read First” document
• Plus—an editable template to create your own!

A Detailed How-To Guide for Use

• Includes editable tips, photographic examples, and all you need to execute this in your classroom!

*Titles of these slides are editable so you can change them to fit the wording and language used in your classroom and school!

How to Use These Back-to-School Activities

Project this file on your interactive whiteboard. You can change the order of the slides to make a slideshow that fits your exact needs! For the first week of school, we follow a cycle: Icebreaker, Procedure, Joke, What If, Icebreaker, Procedure, etc. to ensure we have fun, get to know each other, and learn the way we do things in our classroom and at school!

Other Ways to Use Back-to-School Activities

• Use the routines slides as a class binder to revisit rules and expectations year-round!
• Leave for sub plans so visiting teachers know your rules and expectations
• Use icebreakers for quick transitions or brain breaks
• Use icebreakers for dismissal time