Description
Back-to-School Activities for 5th Grade:
This first-week-of-school activities pack for 5th grade includes everything you’ll need to establish a positive classroom climate and informally assess your students’ writing abilities and self-confidence!
The summer mini-book, back-to-school glyph, first-of-the-year flip book, STEM challenge, and interest inventory will help you get to know your new class of students fast and help students get to know each other!
These activities were designed for 5th grade, but I also offer First Week of School Activities products for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade in my shop!
PLEASE NOTE: The glyph in the printable file is DIFFERENT from the glyph in the Google Slides version due to the restrictions on using movable clip art in Google activities.
This back-to-school activities product includes the following activities:
- Puzzle Quilt Bulletin Board – “We Fit Right In!”
- STEM Challenge
- Back to School Flip Book
- Friendly Letter Template
- Letter to my 5th Grade Teacher
- Interest Inventories
- Back to School Glyph
- 5th Grade Bucket List Activity
All the activities in this First Week of School Activity Pack start the year on a positive note! Please see the thumbnails and preview for a sample and photos of the activities.
NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!
This product includes a digital option (as well as the no-prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.
This PDF file contains 48 pages + Google Slides.








KATHERINE S –
Great!
Heather F –
What a fun way to enjoy the first few days of school! Thanks!
Funny Funny Firsties –
A wonderful base to build off of my first year in fifth, thank you!
Cynthia B –
Very helpful resource
Elaina D –
Thank you for saving me with all these first week activities!
Jamie H –
Great resource for the first week of school!
tabetha S –
Great resource
Denisse S –
LOVE THIS RESOURCE!! There are so many fantastic options available that you can use them throughout the year! We are a small school district, so some of these students have been together since kindergarten. These were great to help present new information about themselves to their classmates! Thanks so much!
Brian K –
I needed something to help a long term substitute get started with the first week back. This was a great resource and gave her activities for the whole week.
Emily P –
Fun thing to use on the first week of school!
Diane H –
Great resource!
Stefanee H –
Great resource
Ann D –
Exactly as expected. Nice resource!
Barbra M –
Lots of fun!
Hannah D –
This was great for the first few days of school!
Amy B –
My students and I loved these! Thanks for helping our year start off right!
Tammika T. –
These were great activities for getting to know my students. This product cleared a lot of space on my to do calendar. Thank you for such a great resource!
simplyfifthAugust 2, 2018 –
A variety of BTS activities!
Euniece H. –
This product was just what I needed for my 5th grade students. It covered exactly what needed to be covered and was easy to use.
Chris Nowotarski –
Easy to use fun activities and templates and resources for beginning of the year!