beginning of year activity Archives - English, Oh My! https://www.englishohmy.com/product-tag/beginning-of-year-activity/ engaging, exciting resources for the English language arts student & teacher Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:23:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.englishohmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png beginning of year activity Archives - English, Oh My! https://www.englishohmy.com/product-tag/beginning-of-year-activity/ 32 32 First Week of School All About Me Classroom Chronicles https://www.englishohmy.com/product/first-week-of-school-all-about-me-classroom-chronicles/ https://www.englishohmy.com/product/first-week-of-school-all-about-me-classroom-chronicles/#respond Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:39:08 +0000 https://www.englishohmy.com/?post_type=product&p=29375 Looking for a creative back-to-school activity that helps students build classroom community while practicing writing skills? Classroom Chronicles transforms the traditional All About Me worksheet into an engaging newspaper-style writing project that students will be excited to complete!

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]]> -Looking for a creative back-to-school activity that helps students build classroom community while practicing writing skills? Classroom Chronicles transforms the traditional All About Me worksheet into an engaging newspaper-style writing project that students will be excited to complete!

Students become the featured story in their very own newspaper as they reflect on their interests, goals, family, hobbies, and future dreams. This project is perfect for the first week of school, getting-to-know-you activities, back-to-school bulletin boards, middle school ELA, and writing centers.

Perfect For:

  • Back to School Activities
  • First Week of School
  • Meet the Teacher Week
  • Getting to Know Your Students
  • Middle School ELA
  • Upper Elementary ELA
  • Writing Workshop
  • Bulletin Board Displays
  • Student Portfolios
  • Open House Displays
  • Sub Plans
  • Icebreaker Activities

What’s Included

✔ Student newspaper template-Digital & PDF

* Teacher example newspaper

✔ Planning pages-Digital & PDF

* Interview question cards

✔ Writing extension activities

* Editor’s checklist

✔ Grading rubric

* Print-and-go pages

 

Students will create their own newspaper featuring:

⭐ Featured Story about themselves

* Exclusive Student Interview

⭐ Favorite Things Column

* Help Wanted (Future Career)

⭐ Words to Live By (Inspirational Quote)

* Summer Highlights

⭐ Fun Facts

* Top 10 List

⭐ Community Member Spotlight

* Editor’s Checklist

⭐ Project Rubric

 

Why Teachers Love This Project

📰 Encourages meaningful conversations among classmates.

– Helps teachers learn about their students.

📰 Creates a beautiful hallway or classroom display.

Promotes writing in an authentic, engaging format.

📰 Easy to differentiate for a variety of learners.

– Requires very little prep.

 

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]]> https://www.englishohmy.com/product/first-week-of-school-all-about-me-classroom-chronicles/feed/ 0 Back to School One Pager https://www.englishohmy.com/product/back-to-school-one-pager/ https://www.englishohmy.com/product/back-to-school-one-pager/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:18:23 +0000 https://www.englishohmy.com/?post_type=product&p=24933 Kick off your school year with this engaging and creative Back to School One Pager activity designed just for upper elementary and middle school students! Whether you're teaching 6th, 7th, or 8th grade, this resource helps students reflect, express themselves, set goals, and build classroom community—all while creating colorful, eye-catching work perfect for your first classroom display.

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]]> Kick off your school year with this engaging and creative Back to School One Pager activity designed just for upper elementary and middle school students! Whether you’re teaching 6th, 7th, or 8th grade, this resource helps students reflect, express themselves, set goals, and build classroom community—all while creating colorful, eye-catching work perfect for your first classroom display.

This no-prep back-to-school resource includes everything you need to implement an unforgettable first week activity that doubles as a ready-to-go bulletin board! Students will love the fun, thought-provoking prompts, and you’ll love the easy differentiation and built-in student reflection.

Perfect for:

  • First Week of School Activities
  • Middle School ELA & Advisory
  • Goal-Setting Lessons
  • Get-to-Know-You Activities
  • Bulletin Board Displays

What’s Included in this Back-to-School One Pager:

  • Back to School One Pager Templates (printable versions)
  • Bulletin Board Letters (“Cereal-sly Ready for 5th/6th/7th/8th”)
  • 30+ Creative and Fun Prompts for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders
  • Printable Worksheets with scaffolded question option
  • Teacher Instructions and Ideas for Implementation
  • Multiple Layout Choices to match different student preferences
  • Perfect for Icebreakers, First Week Activities, and Goal-Setting

Why Teachers Love It:

  • Encourages student voice, creativity, and reflection
  • Makes an instant bulletin board with no extra prep
  • Offers plenty of choices so every student can shine
  • Builds a sense of classroom community from day one
  • Supports ELA writing and self-awareness standards

If you’re looking for a fun, meaningful, and low-prep back-to-school activity, this one pager project is your go-to! Your students will have a blast reflecting on who they are and who they want to become—and your walls will thank you for the colorful, student-centered display.

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]]> https://www.englishohmy.com/product/back-to-school-one-pager/feed/ 0 Back to School ELA Review Digital Escape Room https://www.englishohmy.com/product/back-to-school-ela-review-digital-escape-room/ https://www.englishohmy.com/product/back-to-school-ela-review-digital-escape-room/#respond Sun, 01 Aug 2021 23:03:14 +0000 https://www.englishohmy.com/?post_type=product&p=18656 Are you looking for an entertaining and engaging back to school activity that reviews common English Language Arts skills? This Back to School Digital ELA Review Escape Room is perfect for your students to review common skills in ELA.  This escape room reviews literary terms, figurative language, common homophones, grammar and punctuation.

This escape room narrative will have your students get stuck in a video game during the morning of the first day of school, and the essential questions is: Can they escape before school starts?

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]]> Are you looking for an entertaining and engaging back-to-school activity that reviews common English Language Arts skills? This Back to School Digital ELA Review Escape Room is perfect for your students to review common skills in ELA.  This escape room reviews literary terms, figurative language, common homophones, grammar, and punctuation.

This escape room narrative will have your students get stuck in a video game during the morning of the first day of school, and the essential question is: Can they escape before school starts?

Your students will encounter fun puzzles including a jigsaw puzzle, a hidden image, and four review slides.

What are the positive aspects of a Digital EDUcational Escape?

  1. It is NO-PREP! There is nothing to make, print, cut, laminate, clues to hide, buy or locks to set. Everything is ready for your students on the Google Site!
  2. Students will encounter Google Form questions.
  3. Your students will solve puzzles, ciphers, and clues to escape!
  4. All you have to do is share the link with your students or assign the link in GOOGLE Classroom.
  5. You can have your students complete this on Chromebooks, on an IPad, or in a computer lab, collaboratively or individually.

What do my students or I need to know going into this escape room? (PLEASE READ!)

  1. Your students should have knowledge of the basic literary terms, figurative language, homophones (to, two, too, effect, affect, accept, except, their, there and there), basic grammar (abstract nouns, verbs, adjectives), and proper punctuation.

In this product, you will receive:

1.  Back to School ELA Review Digital Escape Room Link

2. Step-by-step directions with answers

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]]> Are you looking to impress your parents and hand out information during Open House or Meet the Teacher afternoon/evening? Want something fancy to hand out on the first day of school? I have a perfect brochure for you!  Check out my Open, Meet the Teacher Brochure, Savory Succulents! 

You will receive 3 beautiful, visual appealing brochure templates that allows you to add your own text boxes, fonts and colors (Unfortunately, due to copyright infringement, I cannot allow buyers to manipulate the clipart and graphics).  I did, however, give you three options that will work for your needs! Wow your parents when they come into your classroom!

In this product, you are receiving:

1. 3 Open House, Meet the Teacher Brochure Templates

2. Example of Setup

3. Instructions on how to print

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]]> Getting to know your students is an important piece in creating relationships with your students and cultivating an awesome classroom environment. Are you 1:1 with devices in your classroom? Do you use Google Apps? Why not have your students answer this Back to School/Getting to Know You Survey in Google Forms?

This COMPLETELY EDITABLE Google Form currently has 32 questions, ranging from class, interest, teacher, and goals questions.  Feel free to add, remove or edit any of the questions for your students. You can quickly gauge your students’ strengths and weaknesses, along with other important information that will help you understand your students. You can just assign this in Google Classroom!

In this product, you will receive:

1. 32 Back to School/Interest/Class Survey Questions (Completely Editable)

2. How to Assign this Google Form

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  • AS LONG AS no other teacher has access to that class webpage. This resource is for you, the purchaser, alone.

By purchasing my teaching resource, you ARE NOT ALLOWED TO:

  • make copies for other teachers or their classes.
  • distribute this digital resource to other teachers.
  • post this resource on any webpage or server that is available for public view, for other teachers.

If you and a team of teachers would like to use this resource together, please purchase additional licenses on the resource purchase page.

Failure to comply with these terms of use is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license.

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]]> https://www.englishohmy.com/product/back-to-school-getting-to-know-you-google-survey-distance-learning/feed/ 0 Digital Back to School Flip Book https://www.englishohmy.com/product/digital-back-to-school-flip-book-distance-learning/ https://www.englishohmy.com/product/digital-back-to-school-flip-book-distance-learning/#respond Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:31:45 +0000 https://www.englishohmy.com/?post_type=product&p=16962 Want to get to know your students' dislikes, fears, interests, and goals? This flip book is the answer, and it is digital! Your students can print the cover of their flip books to color on their own.

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]]> This Digital Back to School Flip Book is exactly what you need to get to know your students. Want to get to know their character and personality? Their dislikes, fears, interests, and goals? This flip book is the answer, and it is digital! Your students can print the cover of their flip books to color on their own

☆What a great first week of school activity or Getting to Know You Activity!

☆Ready to be assigned in Google Classroom! Your students can type right within the boxes, and the categories are hyperlinked to the activities in the flip book.

In this product you will receive:

  • Directions and instructions
  • 10 different Digital Flip Books – Your students can choose their flip book cover
  • 4 pages of questions – Quotation Analysis, Current Goals, Future Goals, Interests & Hobbies, and Things You Do Not Know About Me
  • Directions for Print Version

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