First Day of School

It's Back to School time and you need activities to help students overcome the anxiety barrier that makes them mute on that first day. This workbook has 45 activities to engage your students in speaking and listening with fun and new games. Like, Scavenger Hunts where students must find out who has curly hair, or who has a pet snake, or who has flown on a plane. Or, activities in which partners talk about the honeybee with questions like: Do bees get tired? Is it wrong for a bee to sting a kid? What do bees dream about? Or, games where two students discuss the similarities and differences between a horse and a cow, or a whale and a seahorse, or a cat and a cheetah. Or questions about why dogs sleep so much, or if it hurts grass to be cut, or whether centipedes ever get sore feet, or how metal airplanes fly. Or Spinner Games where students discuss their new way of getting to school (by helicopter, ambulance, taxi, police car, or giant paper airplane). And there is much more. If you want your students thinking and talking on their first day, then this is the workbook you should have.Common Core Standards: Speaking & Listening: 2.1a and 2.4 and 2.6; 3.1b and 3.4 and 3.6; 4.1b and 4.4 and 4.6; 5.1b and 5.4 and 5.6If you want more in this series, then take a look at the other workbooks: First Day of School: Addition and Subtraction GamesFirst Day of School: All About MeFirst Day of School: Getting Students to TalkFirst Day of School: Multiplication and Division GamesFirst Day of School: SpellingFirst Day of School: Word PuzzlesFirst Day of School: Writing