FREE First Day Fiasco
By Ready Steady Games
It's the first day of school — and it's already a disaster. A wild animal is loose in the front office, Principal Webb is standing on her desk, and the schedules are in shambles. Your students must fix the errors in Principal Webb's panicked emergency announcement and decode the bold letters to reveal exactly what's loose in the school! This no-prep "Fix the Sentences" activity is designed for 4th–6th grade classrooms looking for a high-interest back to school activity that builds editing and proofreading skills from day one. Students fix capitalization, punctuation, spelling, verb tense, and homophone errors while cracking the mystery: the perfect way to kick off the year with a laugh. ✔ Focus Skills: Capitalization Punctuation Spelling Verb tense Homophones and apostrophes Sentence editing ✔ Perfect For: Grades 4–6 Back to school activities First week of school Bell ringers / warm-ups Literacy centers Early finishers Sub plans ✔ What's Included: 1 Fix the Sentences activity (First Day Fiasco themed) Full answer key No prep, just print and go! Sub-friendly! Want to keep the chaos going? This activity is part of the First Day Fiasco! series — a complete back to school grammar unit featuring a logic-based mystery game, a differentiated editing challenge, and a five-mission puzzle pack. Grab the full bundle and get the wolverine out of the office before the whole day falls apart!
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