Back-to-School Activities for the early days

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In a few days the course begins and our students will have the tough task of returning to classes.  

Here you have a collection of ideas, tips and activities to be developed in the early days of the course, in order to remember concepts, create good atmosphere in the classroom, know each other...
Ready for back to school?

• Back-to-School Activities: EnchantedLearning.com
• The Teacher's corner seasonal
• ABCTeach 
• Planning Guide-Scholastic
• Classroom Icebreakers Activities
• Lesson Plans and resources
• Back to school SuperTeacherWorksheets
• A warm welcome activity 
• 150 free Back to School Workscheets-BusyTeacher 

See also on this blog

http://englishforteaching.blogspot.com.es/2011/09/back-to-school-ideas-for-primary-and.html

Back to school ideas for primary, secondary and ICT

 Back To School by Unknown

Today I hurry off to school,

To work and learn and play.

I'm in a brand new grade this year.

What a happy day!

After this summer's break it is back to school. It is time for teachers to get ready and think of back to school activities to do in the English class. Here you'll find some ideas and tips that will make your first days task easier. 

Elementary-Middle

• Slideshows, Icebreakers, Printables, Bulletin Boards and more...Teacher vision 
•  LTK's Crafts for Kids Back to School Activities for Children
• Lesson Plan Page. Back to school 
• Top 10 Multimedia Units: Plan Your Year. Scholastic
• Building a classroom community. Thinkfinity.org
• Back to school ideas for teachers

Middle-Secondary

• Lesson Plan Page. Back to school
• Back to School Lessons for the Secondary Level Classroom. NCTE.
• Critical First Week of High School. By Nicole Sledge
• 101 Things you can do the fisrt three weeks of class 
• Activities for the First Week of High School

Back to school: 5 tips to use ICT in the English class 

Are you interested in tips to start school implementing ICT in your class? Why not asking your students to explain their summer using some web 2.0 tools? It will be more attactive and fun. Let your students talk about their holidays and give them a topic: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" .

Use the following tools: 

1. Create a comic. Pixton
2. Explain your holidays with a text-to-speech. Voki
3. Create a presentation with Photopeach.
4. Record your story with Audacity (audio) or a webcam (video) and share with your class.
5. Create a collabortive presentation. Wallwisher.