20 Free Name Activities for the First Week of Kindergarten. Check out these amazing hands-on and fun name activities! Integrates multiple skills.

These simple name activities are easy to set up and guaranteed to be fun for your students at the beginning of the year!

Not sure what to do the first week of school in kindergarten and first grade? Here are some fun and simple ideas!

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Here are some helpful tips for name practice in Kindergarten. I also created some freebies for your first week of school.

Kick off the school year with fun Name Games! Foster classroom camaraderie and help students break the ice on the first day.

Lessons, Themes, Resources, Tips, & Freebies for Kindergarten Week One - Help and Advice for New Teachers from Fern Smith of #FernSmithsClassroomIdeas

Strengthen fine motor skills and name recognition with these adorable name crafts for preschool and kindergarten! These name crafts for kids are great for practicing scissor skills, hand-eye coordination and gluing skills. Plus, these name activities are perfect for your back to school activities and back to school bulletin boards. Pair these name practice activities with any books about names. Use these back to school crafts during the first week of school to sequence the letters in your…

We read Chrysanthemum at the beginning of each school year. Not only is the topic a good one for talking about healthy and respectful classroom communities, but because her name is sooo long, the story lends itself well to fun name activities on the first day of school. In this post, I share an activity that's perfect for 2nd grade children who have experience collecting and graphing data (math skills they likely learned the year before) and a differentiated version for new firsties. Come…