Middle school activities

First day of school activities and ideas especially for upper elementary third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade students.

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Description A fun graphic organiser for students to share lots of information about themselves. A great start of school year activity to be displayed in your classroom. Or simply have students create it so you can collect it and learn about them.

Bring collaboration and competition to your classroom by putting your students to the task of completing challenges to unlock puzzles!

These 5 geometry projects for middle or high school are a great alternative assessment for your student. Project-based learning is so important to...

First week back graffiti name art fun! Get to know upper elementary and middle school kids with this easy to use art activity for the classroom. A great lesson plan for 5th, 6th, 7th 8th grade teachers to use as a getting to know you resource, encouraging creativity, individuality, goal setting and learning. The finished coloring pages make great displays for bulletin boards and open house. Click the ‘visit’ button to view #allabout me #backtoschool #graffitiart

The first week of school can be a daunting time. Not only are you getting a brand new group of students that you need to get to know, you are dealing with paperwork, classroom organization and management issues, AND your specials usually haven't started yet. This means that getting into a routine can be T.O.U.G.H. I have five activities that can help make that time a little bit easier.

I'm student teaching with a resource teacher, which means that I often get to push into other classes and observe what is going on in the general education classrooms. I had the pleasure, while taking data last week, to witness the most hilarious lesson I think I've ever seen! Apparently the students had been experiencing difficulty with following directions so to assess who could follow directions and who could not, the teacher and student teacher in this classroom made a list of directions…

(Continued from Take a Peek Inside The Mind of a Middle Schooler: Part 1) In our first installment we shared three mind-blowing facts, this image about how middle schoolers learn (see below), and s…

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