I've got a little back to school freebie that I like to use in the first few weeks of school. It's a back to school poem and cloze activity. I put the poem under the document camera and we read it every day for a week. We discuss the poem - do a little "close reading", talk about why it says "goodbye old pool", find rhyming words, etc... {click to download} For one of their literacy/word work centers that week I put out copies of the cloze activity that goes with the poem. These are printed…

Day 235: It is Back to School week for many school districts. The yellow school buses are on the roads and kids are crossing at the crosswalks with their sharp new backpacks full of what I can only imagine to be all the cool school supplies I secretly itch to buy, even though I don't have kids' backpacks to fill anymore.Our oldest grandson, Sawyer, is starting kindergarten this fall, and our second grandson, Landon, will begin pre-school. At the other end of the education cycle we will have…

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Welcome students into the classroom with this fun Welcome to Our Happy Classroom free printable and SVG Cut File. Perfect teacher gift too!

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