10 Engaging Starter & Exit Tasks for Week 1: A Must-Have Back to School Routine!
10 Engaging Starter & Exit Tasks for Week 1: A Must-Have Back to School Routine!
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🤫 Here's a back to school classroom management secret most teachers never get told: the easiest way to communicate your expectations from day 1 is to just get started with a solid entry and exit routine.
This Week 1 Starter & Exit Tasks pack is built to do exactly that. Quietly, invisibly, and without costing you a second of lesson time. By the end of week one, you've got a routine your class already knows, and you can carry it straight through the rest of the year.
THIS is where your strong classroom management era begins.
How you can use these bell ringer and exit slips resource:
✏️Day one, lesson one: Have a starter task already on display or on desks before students even sit down. No instructions needed beyond what's on the page.
✏️Every single lesson, week one: Repeat the pattern with a new starter and a new exit task each day. By Friday, it's just what your class does.
✏️Beyond week one: Once the routine is embedded, you can keep using starters and exit tasks as your everyday entry and exit system. You've got the structure, just keep feeding it new content.
✏️Quiet classroom management: This is proactive behaviour management in its most invisible form. No lecture on expectations required, the room learns the routine by living it.
What's included in this Week 1 Starter & Exit Tasks pack:
👉5 starter tasks: 2 Truths and a Lie, Me in a Nutshell, My Word of the Year, On the Crayon Scale, and On the School Book Scale.
👉5 exit tasks: What I Want My Teacher to Know, One Person I Spoke to Today, Looking Forward, Keep & Ditch, and The Review.
👉3 copies per page for efficient printing and cutting.
👉A Canva template link so you can edit the wording to suit your students, while all other design elements stay protected.
Why you'll love these starter and exit slips:
💛 It embeds routine without ever needing to explain the routine — the most powerful kind of classroom management there is.
💛 Every task doubles as a genuine getting-to-know-you tool, so you're building connection and structure at the same time.
💛 Zero prep beyond printing. No instructions to write, no explanation to give.
A tiny, simple resource that does some of the heaviest lifting of your entire first week.
Looking for absolutely EVERYTHING for the Back to School Season?
Connection, routines, icebreaking, and expectations that actually stick (without lifting a finger)?
You'll find this and everything else inside of The Complete Back to School Bundle. And when I say complete, I mean complete.
The only bundle out there that has literally everything, built by an actual classroom management specialist who knows what it takes to win over a tough teen crowd.
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