These activities are perfect for ANY classroom! It doesn’t matter what your theme is because on those first days we are all trying to establish a classroom team!
First Day of School Activities: Sports Themed
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These activities are perfect for ANY classroom! It doesn’t matter what your theme is because on those first days we are all trying to establish a classroom team!
Included in the lesson are 14 different beginning of the school year activities!
1. Find a Teammate Who…- An activity that gets kids up and talking to their new classmates.
2. Shooting for our goals- An activity that has kids writing goals for the school year. This one makes an excellent bulletin board!
3. Batting Line-Up- This is a simple ABC order handout that helps keep kids busy when the teacher needs to put away supplies or help a student who is anxious about the first day.
4.Interview a Teammate- An activity that has students interviewing each other and introducing their partners to the whole class.
5. Tour the stadium- This is an activity that gets students out of their seat and exploring their new classroom.
6. My Summer Score- An activity that has students doing some addition to determine how cool of a summer they had!
7. Make your own sports card- An activity that has students making their own baseball card.
8. Team Pennant- An activity that has each student making a pennant. All the class pennants can be strung together to make a fun display.
9. Game Day Mad-Lib- An activity that has students working with a partner and allows you to see how much of their language skills they remember!
10. Team Bingo- A fun whole group bingo game where the class is getting to know interesting facts about the other students in their class.
11. Coach’s Quiz: A fun way to get to know YOU!
12. School Illustrated: A magazine project where students get to write and illustrate the events of their fist days of school.
13. The Rules of the Game: Students write about and illustrate three of the school or classroom rules.
14. Game Day Highlights class book: Every students write and illustrates a page about the highlights of their first days of school. A cover is included so that the teacher can make a class book.
These activities get students out of their desk, allow them to be creative, give you a glimpse of what they remember from the previous year and encourage teamwork and colaboration. Plus they are lots of fun!
