Back To School Icebreakers, Worksheets, and Resources

There are lots of fun resources to get your school year started. For more ideas, especially classroom management tools, check out the Back to School Toolkit.

These worksheets give your students lots of things to think about, lots of things to share with their classmates and opportunities to consider the kind of year they are going to have.

Be sure you also plan some time for collaboration, opportunities for students to compare their answers and perhaps starting doing some "grouping of their own.  

• Getting to Know You, Scavenger Hunts, Icebreakers
• 8 back to school worksheets you'll love!
• 3 Getting to Know You Worksheets

These resources also include articles with ideas for building classroom structure, routines and a comprehensive plan for classroom management.  The first sheet may even help your students help you formulate the routines your classroom will need to run efficiently. 

• Are you ready? Back to school routines. Get it right the first week and you're off to an excellent start!
• Creating a Comprehensive Classroom Management Plan
• Teaching Rules and Routines
• 10 Behavior Contracts that work
• Creating a Comprehensive Classroom Management Plan
• You can handle them all...tattletales, bullies, aggression....here's how

As a special educator, IEP's will always have to have a place near the top of the list.  These resources should help you prepare your classroom and build the infrastructure that will support your student's needs.

• Parts of an IEP
• Behavioral Components of an IEP