2nd & 3rd Grade Back to School Activities – All About Me Lessons & Morning Work

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Kick off your back to school activities with this fun 2nd and 3rd grade lesson pack! This 100+ page Back to School Activities Pack has get-to-know-you resources, and all about me activities to help start the year off on the right foot. Also included, you’ll find August and September math, reading, and writing activities that will help you easily plan fun and meaningful activities for the back to school season! Your students will love learning about the invention of school, their classmates, and fun August and September ELA and Math concepts with these print-and-go worksheets! Use these activities for morning work, center time, independent learning and more!

Topics Covered in this Back to School Resource Pack:

• History: The invention of schools: non-fiction reader with questions
• Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and punctuation
• Word study: Short vowels (a,e,i,o,u)
• Reading and writing: main idea, making connections, read and respond, research, newspaper articles, how-to, and imaginative writing
• Math: addition without regrouping, Subtraction without borrowing, and place value

Back to School Activities – All About Me – 2nd & 3rd Grade Morning Work Includes:

Templates:

• Our class goals
• A great classmate is…
• A great teacher is…
• The history of schools
• Books about schools
• School nouns
• Back to school KWL

Get to Know You Activities:

• Get to know you task cards
• This or that
• Compare and contrast
• All about me picture book
• Find a friend worksheet
• Bubble maps “I want to know”

Grammar Activities:

• ABC order: cut/paste and sort the words activity
• ABC order: write the words in order activity
• Parts of speech: Color the code: noun, verb, adjective, and pronouns
• Roll a sentence: include the noun, verb, and adjective
• Color/identify the punctuation activity
• Identify the punctuation activity

Word Study Activities:

• Short vowel sounds (a, e, I, o, u)
• Read, write, and draw
• Identify the words that make the sound by completing maze activities

Reading & Writing Activities:

• Last year memories writing prompts
• Read & respond: stories about school
• Summer break writing prompt
• Comic strip activity
• Newspaper articles
• Reading: main idea
• Non-fiction/fiction bingo choice board (can be used with any book)
• Draw it activities
• Explain and imagine writing prompts

Math Activities:

• Addition: mystery word (without regrouping)
• Subtraction: mystery word (without borrowing)
• Addition and subtraction: roll the dice game
• Color the code: addition and subtraction
• Place value: mystery word
• Place value: color the number
• Place value: tens and ones activity and hundreds, tens, and ones activity

See What Other Teachers Are Saying . . .

⭐ Lots of fun back to school things to do with your class.

⭐ Cute set of activities for the first week of school! 

⭐ Very easy to understand and follow. These are perfect to use in classroom instruction! Thanks

More Fun and Engaging Resources!

• Back to School Science Activities
• All About Me Worksheets
• Character Buidling Bundle

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