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Simplify your planning for the last days of the school year! These 5 end of the year student gift ideas will help you finish the year strong.
The school year's end is fast approaching and if you are like me it's time for Panic Mode! How on earth are you going to get everything finished and keep the kids busy and engaged with meaningful work and still have some end-of-the-year fun? Is this even possible? Well, I have some
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This biology end of the year project will have students reflecting back over what they have learned this year in biology in order to complete tasks on 11 different pages. The tasks encourage students to be CREATIVE while they create pages in a book analyzing what they have learned in a new way. Each page has a prompt at the top and covers a different topic taught in biology. The topics covered are listed below: Page 1: Lab Safety Page 2: Biomolecules Page 3: Prokaryotes Page 4: Eukaryotic Cell Page 5: Viruses Page 6: Mitosis Page 7: DNA Page 8: Protein Synthesis Page 9: Genetics Page 10: Natural Selection Page 11: Taxonomy This has been recently updated with an EDITABLE template for you to adjust and use to fit your needs. For your convenience, I have also included a rubric that details what students should have on each page in order to receive complete credit. So if you are looking for a great way to wrap up this school year try out this resource! It is sure to get your students thinking about Biology in a whole new way! Be sure to get TPT credit for future purchases! Go to your My Purchases page once you are logged in to TPT. Beside each purchase you'll see a “Provide Feedback “button. Once you click it, you will be given the opportunity to leave a rating and short comment about the resource. Stay in the loop! Click HERE to follow my store and receive updates about new resources Stay connected with me! Instagram Facebook Twitter Pinterest I hope your students enjoy this activity as much as mine! -Lacey VanBuskirk
It was about this time last year I took my third graders outside for a paper airplane competition. We had spent a half hour working in te...
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1-2-3 Come Do Some "M & M" Stuff With Me I'm a firm believer in making things personal for students. If you relate things to their world, you quickly grab their attention and enthusiasm for the activity follows. With that in mind, I wanted to design some sort of "me math," where students could use a variety of math concepts to answer questions about themselves. I find that most students really enjoy sharing this sort of information, and the result of showing them all the math that is a personal part of them, might be quite surprising to some. The idea of "me math" led to doing something with an M&M theme. I originally toyed with the idea of each student making a colorful M&M character and filling it with "me math" information, but after I made a list of all of the number-related things that I could think of, that students might be interested in sharing, my list was so long that the idea of getting this inside an M&M creature, was now out. When I was researching "me math" to see if anyone else out there was doing something along that line, I found quite a few poster and pennant ideas, so I didn't want to go that route. No one had done a booklet, or delved into some deeper math extensions, thus my M&M Math & Me booklet was born. To conserve paper, there are 2 pages on each master. Pick and choose whatever is appropriate for your grade level. Your booklet can be a few pages, or add several math extensions to practice more standards and make a longer booklet, that students can work on a little bit each day for the first or last week of school. I've included basic counting, measuring, greater & less than, equations, addition, subtraction, ordinal numbers, time, odd & even, skip counting by 2's, place value, number sentences, comparison, tally marks, and even fractions! From teeth to travels, I think you'll find the personal math questions interesting and fun. I was especially excited to find a Scrabble and M&M font to use with the My Name Math pages. Choose simple math concepts for kinders, or add a few more difficult pages and send the booklet home to have parents help their child with. Click on the link to view/download the M&M Math & Me booklet. If you're looking for a "me math" poster that your kiddos can make, click on the link to take a look at Melissa Machan's Math About Me FREEBIE. I absolutely LOVE the poster poem she wrote. It would be a wonderful introduction to any "me math" activity. Thanks for visiting today. Feel free to PIN away. My "Pin it" button is at the top. Do you have a "me math" activity you'd like to share with us? Feel free to leave a comment or contact me at: [email protected] "Math may not teach me how to add love, or subtract hate, but it gives me every reason to hope that every problem has a solution." -Unknown
Transform the end of the school year into a celebration of growth and accomplishment with these fun ideas and activities!
End of Year Art Activities that require little prep and use minimal materials. End of year art lessons that quick, fun and engaging.
As the school year comes to a close, you might be looking at your calendar thinking, what on earth am I going to do with these random extra days? Or maybe you have room on your calendar for a final unit, but no idea what to do with your students. I’ve got your solution right he
FUN End of the Year Art Projects- It's the end of the year-go out having FUN! I know how it goes at the end of the year-your tired, the kids are tired...EVERYONE is ready for summer break! Go out with a bang with these super fun end of the year art projects!
Over the past few years, I have struggled and struggled with my students on their innate desire to stand up at the end of class. I would make an almost daily reminder that they need to stay in their seats until the bell rings. I would get frustrated that just as it seemed that the procedure would […]
Hi Everyone! With the end of the year in sight, is your class struggling to maintain focus? Do you need a few extra fun art projects to get you through the end of the year? Here are some cute ideas to keep your students entertained before the year is over! Glam Jellyfish! Check
Looking for meaningful end of the year student gifts? These inexpensive students gifts are meaningful, cheap, and has a summer reading project.
Reflection Planner in Minimalist and Clean style. Flexible Use and Undated. Take a grasp on the progress you've made! What are you most proud of? What are you looking forward to next? With focused prompts, this planner is ideal for evaluating how far you've come. Whether you're on track, off track or need to change goals, this 1-page Reflection overview will guide you. This planner is Undated so you can use it year after year! This pdf is flexible to use for Monthly, Quarterly, Mid-Year and Year-End reviews. Just circle the months you want to reflect on! A great gift to graduates to help them figure out their next steps and goals. INCLUDES 1-PAGE REFLECTION PLANNER PDF Letter size (8.5x11) This product is a digital download file. The product will be available immediately after purchase through Etsy. If you have any trouble with your download, please send me a message! All digital files may be used for personal use only. @ All rights are reserved. This design is copyrighted. Thank you for visiting! - Lily
If you came to this site, you either purchased the time capsule activity and are looking for directions, or want ideas for your own time capsules. These are so much fun to do with students of all ages! Enjoy! This Time Capsule Activity is great to use at the
The end of the school year is such a special time as testing winds down, and you finish teaching those last few standards. You may even find you have little pockets of time throughout your days when you and your students can work to strengthen that special classroom community bond that's been building throughout the year. One of my favorite ways to savor that last few weeks with my family-away-from-home before they head off for summer break is through design challenges and game play.
What are you teaching at the end of the year? "Make" memories with your students and keep them engaged up until the last day of school with STEM! Create a cereal box memory book to help students process the "last day blues", engineer an amazing treehouse, learn about the Chica
Laura @inspiremyplay Founder of @inspiremyplay, Early Years teacher for 11 years and mummy to three gorgeous girls. I'm passionate about the benefits of play in early childhood. This post may contain affiliate links. This means that if you click on a link and go on to make a purchase, I may receive a small commission (at no additional cost to you). Please read my disclosure policy for more details. It's not long until Easter! Here's a round up of some of the play and craft ideas that we love at this time of year. I love making our Easter celebrations extra special with lots of play and craft. There's so many ways we can build special memories, introduce fun family traditions and explore the Easter story with our kids. I hope the activities below provide a bit of inspiration for you. Many use household items, but any additional resources featured can usually be found via my online Amazon storefronts. Amazon UK Supplies Amazon US Supplies In amongst the cute crafts and Easter play we also love to share the Easter story! Here is an animated version below. And if you'd like a home-based Easter Egg Hunt you can download our free printable here. Easter Play & Craft Activities Easter Play Dough We love play dough and had such fun with this Easter play dough invitation last year! Home made play dough is so easy to make and is so much nicer than shop bought stuff! Find our play dough recipe here. To make pastel colours like these, just add a very small amount of food colouring to each batch. You can find these play dough cutters linked in my Amazon storefronts. Pasta Eggs This is a fun craft for toddlers and pre-schoolers involving pasta shapes. I prepared this painted pasta ahead of time (see my how to colour pasta post) and then provided white glue to stick on the various pieces to the cardboard egg. I helped my toddler by squeezing out the glue in lines across the egg and then she placed the pasta on-top. It was a great work out for her fingers and the results were lovely Get your FREE ebook For more simple DIY recipes & ideas for sensory play at home download your Beginner's Guide to Sensory Play by subscribing to Inspire My Play today. Get Yours Now Chick Small World Play If you have any of these cute little chicks that are everywhere at Easter why not set up a little world for them. Small world play is great for encouraging story telling and imaginative play! Easter Bunnies with Nature Often the best activities are free! Why not have a scavenge in the garden or on your daily walk and collect some things from nature. Then use it to make some cute bunny pictures! Pompom & Easter Egg Tray My kids have loved playing with this tray full of pom-poms and plastic Easter Eggs. There's so many opportunities to practice counting and teach number in this set up. Add some scoops and tools and it's also brilliant for practicing fine motor skills. Shaving Foam Easter Egg Wreath This Easter wreath was made using shaving foam art. It’s such a fun technique and it works well for sibling groups. My tips are to have a towel ready and somewhere close by to wash hands and wash the trays down. Shaving foam is messy but relatively painless to clean up! Here are the instructions, but if you’d rather watch the technique in action I made a reel awhile back using the same process but making Valentine’s hearts. 1. Add drops of food colouring to the shaving foam in your chosen colours. 2. Use the end of a pencil or paintbrush to make patterns with the food colouring or leave it as blobs of colour (each will achieve a different look) 3. Next place a piece of photo paper or card on top of the shaving foam and press it down gently. 4. Once the paper is covered in shaving foam lay it face up on a tray and scrape off the excess using a ruler. You should be left with a beautiful, unique pattern every time. You can have a few goes at this before needing to add a bit more food colouring. We did several trays of shaving foam with different colour food colouring each time. Once everything is dry, cut out the Easter eggs, arrange them in a circle slightly overlapping and glue together. Then string it up with a ribbon. Alternatively you could make bunting or Easter cards. Easter Cutting Tray I set up this cutting tray for my 4 year old last week and it was such a hit! She spent ages cutting these up and returned several times! It's a great way of using up scraps of paper and practicing cutting skills at the same time! If you don't fancy lots of prep we've made lots of Easter scissor skills resources available on our sister website - Playful Printables. You can find out more here. Easter Garden Every year we make an Easter garden as a way of exploring the Easter Story. For this one we used a flowerpot and stone to show the empty tomb and bound some twigs together to make a cross. We then gathered lots of foliage and flowers to make a beautiful garden. Magnetic Easter Eggs Hide some magnetic letters or numbers in plastic eggs and they become 'magnetic'! Great for a little treasure hunt or 'lucky dip' activity. Pom-pom Painting Clipping pom-poms to pegs is a fun way of doing art. Either draw lines across the egg to follow or leave it completely blank for them to design their own. For more precise designs you could also do this with q-tips (cotton-wool buds). Tin Foil Chicks These little chicks are so easy to make using scrunched up tinfoil. Paint pieces of kitchen towel and once dry rip into small pieces before gluing onto the tinfoil body. Add a beak, eyes and feet to finish off your cute chick. Wooden Easter Egg Decorating These gorgeous wooden eggs are linked in my Amazon storefronts. Last year we had a lovely time decorating them with acrylic paint pens and then using the eggs for an Easter Egg Hunt. Easter Pebble Painting We love pebble painting! You can paint on pebbles using acrylic paint pens. We recommend Posca Pens for older kids and adults, and the Colorful Art Co. as a cheaper brand with chunky tips for little ones. Other alternatives are to use paint sticks or ready-mixed paint, though the colours won't be quite as vibrant. There's so many ways you could paint pebbles at Easter time. Why not paint some Easter Eggs and hide them around the garden for an Easter Egg hunt? Or paint some little chicks. You could also make some Easter story stones to use to retell the Easter Story. Sticky Easter Eggs This has been such a popular idea over the past few years! This activity uses a piece of contact paper (sticky-backed plastic) stuck onto a cardboard surround, with an egg shape cut out. Draw lines over the egg using a permanent marker and provide a selection of craft supplies to decorate the egg. This activity is great for developing fine motor skills. Easter Nests This is a classic Easter Activity! Find the instructions on the BBC Good Food website. Pom-pom Animals My 6 year old made these cute pom-pom animals. We used two different sized pom-pom makers (linked in my Amazon storefront), but you can also use a couple of cardboard disks instead. You can watch a useful tutorial here. Easter Tablecloth It has become a bit of a tradition of ours to make a tablecloth to use on Easter Sunday. For this particular one I drew eggs all over the paper cloth and then the girls decorated them using q-tips. The girls spent ages on this project and each one was so unique! If you can't get hold of a paper tablecloth you could make a table runner using a roll of paper or make Easter placemats.
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It’s time for another technology tutorial… and this one is super fun (and could make a great gift for the holidays!) This week we’ll learn how to make any picture into a coloring page! The picture that I used for this tutorial is one of my husband when he was 3. How cute is he!? […]
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Hello Friends!! Happy Memorial Day weekend, the official start to the summer season here at the Jersey shore!!As excited as I am, we still have about three and half weeks left in this school year
STEM Sports is a winner! Science, engineering, and math are part of these sports-themed team challenges for the end of the year.
Making solar ovens is the perfect end of year activity! Grab free solar oven worksheets and printables to implement a solar oven project in your classroom!
Gifted gardener Henna embarks from her island home to search for the plant that might save her papa’s life in this vibrant story of love, grief, and growth. Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth’s End—until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil’s Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil’s, Henna is surrounded not only by incredible plants, but also, for the first time, other kids—including her new roommates: wisecracking, genderfluid P, who gleefully bends every rule they come up against, and wealthy, distant Lora, who is tired of servants doing everything for her, from folding her clothes to pushing her wheelchair. But Henna’s search for the fabled healing seed means she doesn’t have time for friends—or so she thinks. This tender tale, blossoming with moments of joy, is a story of hope, grief, and learning to flourish with a little help from those around you. | Author: Tara Dairman | Publisher: Candlewick | Publication Date: Mar 14, 2023 | Number of Pages: 384 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 1536224804 | ISBN-13: 9781536224801
Halfway through the year really tests our teaching endurance. We have the holidays, finishing up a semester, and the planning and stressing begins for the end of year testing. It is so easy to get …
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Need a fresh idea for the end of a unit? Instead of writing a paper or doing presentations, have students create PDF e-books they can enjoy and share for years.
Hostess gifts are such a sweet way to show your appreciation for being invited into someone's home. I'm sharing with you some of my favorites over the years.
Create a brochure in Google Slides for next year's class makes a fun end of the year activity that can be completed on Chromebooks, laptops, computers or ipads. Come grab a FREE digital template!
