Back to school word search
Term one starts in the heat of late summer, with new school shoes, a full stationery list and a drink bottle with your name on it. Twenty words for the first week back.
- Book bag
- Covering books
- Drink bottle
- Excited
- February
- Haircut
- Lunchbox
- Mates
- Name labels
- Nerves
- New teacher
- Ruler
- School bag
- School shoes
- Scooter
- Stationery
- Sunhat
- Term one
- Timetable
- Uniform
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Name
| P | E | G | S | N | A | M | E | L | A | B | E | L | S |
| X | T | E | R | M | O | N | E | U | S | C | X | F | N |
| E | C | H | A | I | R | C | U | T | F | O | C | E | N |
| I | N | L | U | N | C | H | B | O | X | V | I | B | E |
| D | R | I | N | K | B | O | T | T | L | E | T | R | W |
| S | T | A | T | I | O | N | E | R | Y | R | E | U | T |
| W | T | I | M | E | T | A | B | L | E | I | D | A | E |
| N | R | S | U | N | I | F | O | R | M | N | M | R | A |
| U | P | R | C | I | R | U | L | E | R | G | A | Y | C |
| S | C | H | O | O | L | B | A | G | S | B | T | B | H |
| U | N | S | C | H | O | O | L | S | H | O | E | S | E |
| R | S | U | N | H | A | T | U | T | O | O | S | P | R |
| B | O | O | K | B | A | G | E | G | H | K | T | B | N |
| N | E | R | V | E | S | F | K | R | N | S | D | W | W |
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- Book bag
- Covering books
- Drink bottle
- Excited
- February
- Haircut
- Lunchbox
- Mates
- Name labels
- Nerves
- New teacher
- Ruler
- School bag
- School shoes
- Scooter
- Stationery
- Sunhat
- Term one
- Timetable
- Uniform
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About this word search
The New Zealand school year starts in late January or early February, in the middle of summer, and runs in four terms until December. Before term one there is a stationery list to tick off, books to cover, new school shoes to break in and a name label for everything that can get lost.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen, with words across, down and diagonally but never backwards. Covering books is the longest at thirteen letters, then school shoes and drink bottle with eleven. Mates and ruler are the shortest at five letters, with nerves and sunhat one behind at six. Term one, book bag and new teacher run together without spaces. Only February and uniform have an F, and drink bottle is the only word with a double T.
Use the sheet in the last week of the holidays to talk about what is coming: who the new teacher might be, what goes in the lunchbox and which nerves are the excited kind.
Ways to use this word search
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