Saturday, August 1, 2026

Back To School Resources

 


The beginning of the school year is full of many high levels: stress, excitement, frustration-tolerance, and student voices.

Let's turn down the volume and keep things simple. I've created engaging resources for your lessons that are quick and easy to prep.



Alphabet Chart

Price: FREE

Grade Level: Pre-K to First

There are two basic charts (horizontal & vertical) featuring the uppercase and lowercase alphabet. Black consonants contrast with red vowels, differentiating letter types.

Print, laminate, and start using them with your class.

Ideal for small-group instruction, mini-posters on classroom walls, or for your writing center.



First Day of School Self-Portrait

Price: $1.06

Grade Level: Pre-K to First

Develop your students' fine motor skills and a happy classroom community with this First Day of School Activity.

What's Included:

Four different grade-level worksheets: Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, and First 

Each template is black-and-white and perfect for an initial assessment of your students' proficiency level.

Ideal for Back-To-School Welcome Boards, working portfolios, and All About Me.



September Calendar Numbers & Organizers

Price: $2.50

Grade Level: Pre-K to First

This resource is full of activities to strengthen your students' math and organizational skills.

What's Included:

A-B Pattern Calendar Numbers (School Bus & Red Apple)

A-B Pattern Calendar Numbers (Pencil & Green Apple)

18 Special and Observed Days in September: Teddy Bear Day, Johnny Appleseed Day, National Pepperoni Pizza Day and more!

A list of special dates in September

Suggestions for the calendars and planners

Find the School Bus, Apple, and Teddy Bear game pieces

Monthly, Weekly and Daily calendars

September Journal Pages with and without lines

Ideal for small group instruction, counting by ones, connecting counting to cardinality, journal writing, marking special days throughout the month, setting goals, and staying on schedule.



Year Long Reading Logs

Price: FREE

Grade Level: Pre-K to First

Monthly Reading Logs for September through August

Children color in a character each time they read a book.

What's Included:

Keep track of your students' reading with three different versions.

Recording pages for children and parents to write the names of the books they've read.

A rating option to let parents and teachers learn what types of stories their children enjoy.

Ideal for 100-Book Challenge and Homeschool Curricula.



Need To Know Words Movement Game

Price: $2.00

Grade Level: Pre-K to First

Fun, engaging, and interactive!

My kindergarten students had a blast when we played this game.

This activity will get your kiddos moving in creative ways while learning those all-important Need To Know Words.

Perfect for little ones learning to spell their first and last names. Also great for kids learning high-frequency words, spelling words, and more!

Ideal for literacy centers and small and large groups.

What's Included:

26 different movement cards



Fall Sight Word Coloring 

Price: FREE

Grade Level: Kindergarten to First

This Fall-Themed pack is perfect for introducing and reinforcing sight words.

It's a NO PREP, just print and color resource.

Perfect for literacy centers, homework, and early finishers.

What's Included:

5 Fall-Themed Sight Words Pages

5 Halloween-Themed Sight Word Pages

Focuses on 40 different high-frequency words for kindergarten.



MonSTAR of the Week

Price: $1.50

Grade Level: Pre-K to Second

Celebrate your students with this All About Me activity. It fosters self-awareness, positive self-esteem, and a favorable classroom culture.

What's Included:

Boy and Girl MonSTAR worksheets in gray and black

MonSTAR All About Me mini-poster

A schedule with a different activity to complete each day for the MonSTAR student.



Back To School Calendar Numbers

Price: FREE

Grade Level: Pre-K to First

This activity has 30 numbers in an A-B pattern and five specialized days to mark a special occasion in your classroom.

What's Included:

30 School Buses and Apples

Five Special Days: Birthday, First Day of Fall, Teddy Bear Day, Talk Like A Pirate Day, and International Dot Day.

Great for wall calendars and pocket calendars. Additionally, you can incorporate the numbers into your math center or use them for a small group lesson. Students can count the numbers and arrange them in numerical order.



Pre-K Classroom Scavenger Hunt

Price: FREE

Grade Level: Pre-K

Introduce your kiddos to their classroom with this fun and interactive activity!

This product will have your students searching high and low for items in your learning centers.

It helps promote pre-reading/pre-writing skills, counting and cardinality, eye-hand coordination, and cooperation. 



School Scavenger Hunt

Price: FREE

Grade Level: Kindergarten to Second

Introduce your students to their school with this fun and interactive activity!

This product will have your students searching high and low for speciality classrooms, school workers, and more!

It helps promote pre-reading/pre-writing skills, counting and cardinality, eye-hand coordination, and cooperation. It also teaches students where pertinent people and items are located.



My Back To School Memory Yearbook

Price: $5.50

Grade Level: Preschool to Kindergarten

A versatile book that targets cross-curriculum learning objectives and themes!

What's Included:

Color and Black & White options

Three Different Covers: Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

All About Me: Self-Portraits, Photos, Keepsakes, First/Last Day Comparisons

Self-Reflection: Quarterly Check-Ins (thoughts about school), Favorite Books and Activities

All About My Classroom: School Year Classroom Record, Class Field Trip and Highlight Pages, Multicultural Celebration Photo and Highlight Pages, Special Classroom Visitor Photo and Highlights Pages, Classroom Photo Page, Autographs, Praise From My Teacher Notes

Reinforces vocabulary, reciprocal conversation (self-expression, oral language, listening to the speaker), problem-solving through open-ended questions, fine motor, drawing, and writing.

Here's to beginning a new school year with confidence and happy learners!




 














































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