Yes, it’s that time – time to gather materials for the upcoming school year, and especially for the first week of school! To get you started, here is my 2025 bookmark set – you can download it below.

And here are some more ideas for beginning-of-the-school-year materials.

Back to School Activities

This is the table of contents from my back-to-school activity set, and below that, you can see two of the activities included in the set.

Story Elements Activities

Story elements is a huge topic that’s relevant all year long, so why not jump right in during the first week of school? There’s no time like the present – right? Here are some story elements resources from my TPT store – sets of task cards for each story element, and a combo slide presentation and activity sheets set.

Don’t forget to download your free 2025 bookmarks here: