More Back To School Ideas! Counting Down The Day's 'Til School Starts!

A Simple Trick To Get Kids Excited For The First Day Of School

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It's also a "teachable moment" for parents to work on numbers, counting, and introducing a calendar or how to keep track of time.

A fun and inexpensive gift that helps you do that, that you can quickly make and pass out at your Open House is something that I just dreamed up.

Our Open House is the week before school starts, which is wonderful, because it gave me a chance to meet my students and help dispel any fears they might have.

Whip these kits together and toss the Baggies in a basket.

Set them on a table with A Special Gift For My Students Take One sign.

Click on the link to view/print one.

back to school ideas, back to school countdown necklace, first day of school ideas, ideas for back to school, gifts for Open house, open house ideas, Making these "count down necklaces" help students count, use their fine motor skills, review all of the basic colors, follow a color pattern, + get excited about coming to school as they count down the days!

My Y5’s also had to learn to count backwards from 10-0 as a report card standard. (I call this blasting off.) This is simply another fun way of doing that.

What a nice keepsake for them to have of this special time in their life!

Here's how to make the necklace kits:

In a snack Baggie include 10 pony beads (one of each of the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, white, brown and black) and an 18-inch length of white yarn.
Tape the end into a point, with a piece of Scotch tape, so that it is easy for young ones to string their beads.
Include the following poem:

Click on the link to print the back-to-school necklace poem.

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