First Day Fiasco! Puzzle Pack
By Ready Steady Games

A wolverine is loose in the front office, and the first day of school is already in chaos! This back to school grammar puzzle pack for Grades 4–6 turns ELA review into a connected mystery adventure, combining grammar practice, sentence structure, irregular verbs, conjunctions, punctuation, spelling, and codebreakers into a first week activity students actually want to complete. Perfect for keeping students engaged during the first days of school while reinforcing key grammar and editing skills across multiple activity types. Can your students crack the codes and piece together the Wolverine Removal Plan before the whole day descends into total madness? How It Works Students complete five connected grammar missions, each anchored to a first-day event that the wolverine has disrupted. As they work through each puzzle, they collect a secret code word and record it on their Wolverine Removal Plan sheet. Once all five words are collected, students arrange them in the correct order to reveal the plan and save the first day of school. Every puzzle includes a built-in codebreaker element, adding immediate feedback and an extra layer of engagement. The 5 Grammar Missions: Classroom Rules: Identify correctly punctuated class rules from a list that didn't quite survive the wolverine's arrival. Tests sentence boundaries, dialogue punctuation, commas, and apostrophes for contraction and possession. Cafeteria Chaos: Identify complex sentences in the kitchen team's hastily rewritten lunch m
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