Best-Ever Back-to-School Activities: 50 Winning & Welcoming Activities, Strategies, & Tips That Save You Time & Get Your School Year Off to a Sensational Start

Educators know the first few days and weeks of school set the tone for the rest of the year. Teachers with a full repertoire of games, exercises, books, and daily routines will be primed to take on the new school year with gusto! The 50 activities, strategies, and tips found in this book will help save time and get the year off to a terrific start. First-day icebreakers, getting-to-know-you activities, collaborative class books, poems, miniplays, bulletin board ideas, name games, read-alouds, songs, fun surprises, and more are included in this dynamic workbook. In one activity, each child calculates the "value" of her or his own name, using a chart that assigns a price to each letter of the alphabet (A equals one cent, B equals two cents, C equals three cents, etc.). Students then answer a series of questions, including "Whose name costs the most?" "Can you think of the names that would cost exactly 75 cents?" "What is the least expensive name you can think of?" Kids sharpen their math skills while they learn their classmates' names. Packed with useful pointers and creative reproducibles, and organized logically and clearly, this book may very well be a teacher's "best ever" back-to-school resource. For other fine related titles, don't miss Quick Tips: 101 Surefire Ways to Start the School Year and Fresh & Fun: September. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter