Build a strong foundation for the year with This is a School activities that celebrates what makes your school community special. These activities invite students to decorate lockers and backpacks with personal details, illustrate their school helpers and surroundings, and write about their unique role in the school. They’ll create acrostic poems, define vocabulary, and explore parts of speech as well. Digital tools and collaborative prompts help every student feel seen, valued, and connected.
As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Decorate a locker to share about yourself.
• Decorate a backpack with fun facts.
• Illustrate people and helpers in your school.
• Illustrate yourself at school and your school community.
• Write about your school.
• Create acrostic poems.
• Sort parts of speech related to the story.
• Define community.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Use digital tools to build classroom community.
• Participate in collaborative activities to learn more about their community.

Whether you’re kicking off a new year or strengthening classroom culture, This is a School activities are a meaningful way to grow together. Download now to create a welcoming classroom where every student belongs and learning comes to life.

💙 Ready to build a community? All of our learning activities include prompts and no print activities that help students feel seen, heard, and connected.

💙After downloading the This is a School activities, read the book with the soundscape in your Novel Effect app where every voice belongs!

About the Book and Soundscape

A heartfelt tribute to the beating heart of every school: the people who fill it with curiosity, care, and community. This soundscape captures the emotional arc with uplifting easy-rock, cinematic swells, cheerful school sounds, and a chorus of energetic voices.

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