Do you have trouble remembering all of your new pupils' names at the beginning of each school year? Here are seven handy ideas that you can try out when faced with a whole new group of names to memorize.

Spiff up your classroom walls with three adorable templates! Each hot air balloon, puzzle piece, or surfboard can be decorated by a teacher or pupil and pinned up on the wall to create a cute class display.

Start off your young English language learners with this packet of materials, which covers three weeks of instructions. After completing the unit, kids will have practiced the letters K through Z, read several story books, talked with...

Here's a great idea for writing portfolios. Kids decorate all four sides of their portfolio, introducing themselves, their families, goals, dreams, and favorite things. Detailed directions for all four panels and a rubric are included in...

Identify the unique personal attributes of your class members. Begin by viewing the Visual Thesaurus and discussing displayed attributes associated with famous American leaders. Using these identity maps as models, pupils generate nouns...

Transitioning between the end of summer vacation and the beginning of the school year doesn't have to be a drag! A helpful video provides tips about starting the best school year ever, including going to sleep earlier, packing a lunch...

Looking to start or support a Gifted and Talented program? An 80-page packet outlines grade-leveled lessons in all subject areas as school district's Gifted and Talented enrichment curriculum.

If your students made a list of their favorite things, would writing poetry be on it? After this poetry writing lesson, it might! Young writers make a list of what they like—or what they don't like—before crafting the list into a rhyming...

Learners practice using can for ability in a conversational skills instructional activity. As students move around the classroom and practice the grammar exercise, they become more familiar with the peers in their class.

Use a packet of colorful chalkboard-themed Meet the Teacher Night sign-in and information sheets as part of your back-to-school activities. The packet is complete with welcome signs, classroom labels, methods of transportation labels,...

Combine getting to know one another and math with a instructional activity that focuses on graphing birthdays. Scholars collect data to discover how many peers share birthday months and fill in a bar graph for visual representation.    

There is so much to take in on the first day of school! Here, have scholars write about it. Pupils detail their teacher's name, something they've learned, how they feel, who their classmates are, what they want to remember, and what they...

Make doing homework a family affair with a get-to-know-you instructional activity that brings families together to create a coat of arms. With the assistance of their parents or guardians, pupils complete the coat of arms with drawings...

Get to know the kids in your class with a worksheet that features pictures and personal information. Pictures include one of the scholar and one of their family. Personal information details likes, talents, and hopes. 

Encourage learners to wear their interests on their sleeves, literally. Class members decorate a blank t-shirt with personal information, including their hobbies, favorite part of school, and details about their family and self. 

Get to know your scholars with a worksheet that focuses on the important numbers that make up their life. Pupils answer questions such as how many letters are in their name, how old are they, how tall are they, how many siblings do they...

Encourage creativity and reflection with a hands-on activity book. Scholars document their personal appearance, age, height, friends, and feelings about the first day of school to the last.