Whether your students know nothing about Greece, or whether they have Greek standards, everyone will love this unit. This unit is designed to be used as way to enjoy a fun filled couple of weeks learning about Greece. (It may take more than 1 week if you do all the activities). Your class can use ...
Transform the end of the school year into a celebration of growth and accomplishment with these fun ideas and activities!
Let's Have a Lemonade Tasting (A Fun End of Year Experience) 8 comments End of Year, Freebies, Lemonade Day, Lemonade Tasting Today we had a Lemonade Tasting, and it was so much fun! I typically do several themed days at the end of the year. We've run out of curriculum, the kids are in summer mode, and it's an easy way to keep them engaged with meaningful learning up until the end. So, what goes into a lemonade tasting? Let's find out! As the students walked in to the room today, they were greeted with these pink and yellow ribbon streamers. To attach them to the door frame, I simply taped them with Scotch tape. Nothing fancy, I promise. Then, I taped a few lemon slice cut outs to the ends of a few pieces of the ribbon. You can grab the lemon cut outs HERE. We started the day by making new words from the words "cold lemonade." Some really great words they came up with include "noodle," "candle," and "melon." This got them ready for the next thing: the lemonade tasting! We headed outside to our courtyard where I served the students small portions of pink and yellow lemonade. Small, as in, those are bathroom sized cups. ;) To add a bit of novelty to this experience, I made drink tickets for the students to cash in when they grabbed their lemonade. This actually helped make sure the process remained orderly. As a student approached the table, he/she dropped his/her ticket in the provided bucket and then grabbed the matching drink. They loved their little tickets! After the tasting, we came inside and conducted a whole group poll to find out which flavor of lemonade was most popular. The students graphed the results and then answered some questions about their graph. I gave each student a wristband (card stock cut into strips and labeled "Team Pink" and "Team Yellow") to represent their favorite drink. This helped them to be consistent during the poll. Second graders sometimes forget their choice when participating in activities like this. Hehe. Plus, they thought it was pretty cool to sport their paper bracelet for the day. You can grab the drink tickets and bracelet templates HERE. After graphing our favorite picks, the students brainstormed words to describe their favorite lemonade and then wrote opinion pieces about which lemonade they liked best. The opinion pieces were written in these super fun shape books. After all that sitting and writing, it was time to get up and move a bit! We played a game of I Spy. We used these lemonade themed money word problem task cards to review our problem solving (and money counting) skills. Finally, we practiced our parts of speech skills by completing this lemonade themed word sort. Some of the words really got them thinking and it was fun to hear them talk it out with their teaching buddies. The question of the day was whether they should put "drink" in the noun or verb category. It was so great to hear them think it out. Ultimately, they decided it went with the verbs so that each category would have an equal number of words. So logical! (But, for the record, I would have accepted its placement in either category). Our Lemonade Tasting was lots of fun! The kids absolutely loved it! Best of all, they were engaged in all of the activities and didn't even realize that they were still learning! All of these activities, plus more can be found in my Let's Have a Lemonade Tasting! pack on TPT. What are your favorite end of year themes? DON'T FORGET IT, PIN IT! Share It:
Check out how to make preschool portfolios with your students. They make great end of the year keepsakes. Included is a free printable poem for your kids.
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
It turns out that you CAN make s'mores with a regular household iron! Here's what happened when I tried making classroom s'mores with my sixth graders.
These all about me, back to school art activities for kids are engaging icebreakers. Encourage creativity and build community during the first week back
End of the school year activities for students to reflect back on the year with their class community leading up to the last day of school.
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!
At this time of year (end of August) I have so many mixed emotions. I am sad that the summer is drawing to an end, but I am excited for the new school year: envisioning my new students and the project
Tips for writing end of the year report card comments, sentences you can copy and paste right into your comments, and a resource to save time!
Wow - what a year! When I started at my new school this past year, after having resigned from my school district last year, I didn't know. I didn't know anything. If I was going to stick with it, like it, hate, love it, or anything, really. I just kind of went in with an open mind. It was a WORLD different than what I had been doing for the last 18 years, but I really LIKED it. Now that I won't be a first year teacher (after 18 years lol) and my kids won't be first year students with a new curriculum and expectations, I really do plan to blog about more, and create more to go with what our curriculum is. If you want to see my last post, which I did before school even started, it's HERE on my personal blog. I never even GOT to my teacher blog. ha! The last three days were early release so I just used those days as our theme days. 1. Summer Time 2. Game Day 3. Hollywood Stars One of my favorite things we do is these Party Pineapples! Gosh, I love them every year. I put them on black paper to frame them, and then give them a "plaque" and make an art gallery out of our front walls. If I had a hallway where people walk through, I'd hang them, but I don't, it's just us 2 teachers upstairs, so, we hung them for us to be happy looking at them. These take ALL day almost, so it's a great early release day activity. On this same day, since it's "summer themed," we celebrate the summer birthdays (including mine!). I got this idea from another blogger, Stephanie, but you use ice cream sandwiches instead of scooping ice cream! It's magical. lol. We do alllll the toppings, but the ice cream sandwiches are a game changer. The next day is Game Day. Basically, I just do a bunch of Minute to Win It Games. I have a few parent volunteers to man the stations, and they rotate after a minute. Here are some ideas we did this time. Fruit Loop Stack (on a popsicle stick) Cookie Face Tic-Tac Chopstick pick up M & M straw (pick up an M & M by sucking through a straw and place it into another bowl) They also did paper airplanes this day and bubbles during recess. Here are some ideas on THIS post. Other seasonal Minute to Win Game Posts HERE After the games, we came back and did a directed drawing from Art Hub - pineapples, of course. Another thing we spend a few days doing is their Memory Book. I have stored their pages from the beginning of the year, and after they finish their end of the year ones, I staple the books together. I LOVE being able to see how much they've grown in the school year. Look at the difference in their drawings and writing from the BOY 👆to the EOY 👇! You can find these memory books HERE. And on the last day, we do our classroom awards. I got the red carpet idea from a blogger, Reagan, MANY years ago. I get the red rolly paper for them to walk on and then a red tablecloth from the dollar store and put yellow stars on it as the backdrop. It such a POP for the pictures! This year, I got smart and just made a template in PPT with a star and typed in their names and printed them on yellow paper. Then I had my daughter cut them out. ha! And we ended with movie day - popcorn with M & Ms in it. Click the link to find some other END OF YEAR IDEAS Check out my post on End of the Year Books. to see which books I like to read. I always plan to read them all, but of course, time runs out, like always.
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
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 […]
Classroom Award Tips and Freebies! Most schools have some sort of award program at the end of the year to recognize students for achieving the Honor Roll, having perfect attendance, or excelling in other areas. Most of my students received an award, but there were always some who didn't receive anything at all. Typically these children were the very ones who had struggled all year and who were facing difficulties and a lack of parent support at home. I couldn't help but feel sorry for them. So I decided that our classroom would have its own awards program and that every student would get some type of award. I was not trying to diminish the importance of the schoolwide awards, but simply to acknowledge that all of my students were special in some way and deserving of some type of award.
As an educator, bidding farewell is always challenging, but this delightful Goodbye letter for your students, available on Etsy, is certain to brighten their day. This charming end-of-year poem is an ideal keepsake to distribute. Not only is it cost-effective, but it can also be utilized repeatedly! Just print the simple design on an 8.5x11 page, cut it out, and give it to your students. For an extra touch, you can even attach them to a small gift bag as a delightful end-of-year present. Print on 8.5x11 paper 6 per page **** I would love to connect with you! You'll find us on social media at: Instagram: @prettypartyprojects
As the year winds down and we've finished most of our "have to" curriculum, it's time to do some activities just for the fun of it, like a memory book.
End of the school year activities for students to reflect back on the year with their class community leading up to the last day of school.
In this article I’m going to give you some fresh and new ideas for teaching art at the End of the Year and yes, this shall include End of Year Art Lesson Ideas! So read on to discover 5 End of Year Art Lesson Ideas that you can use in your classroom, whether you teach in a general classroom or an art classroom! Let's make some art!
Use these end of the year student awards to recognize your students and their successes this year, as well as celebrate the end of the school year. With these awards, you can praise each student for their growth, unique talents, and skills – academic, social, and life skills. With every single one of these awards, each of your students will feel important and recognized for their accomplishments and who they are. What a fun way to wrap up the school year! Fun bonus: Host an awards ceremony with your students! WHAT'S INCLUDED? Resource Guide Resource Walkthrough Printing Guidelines Preparation Student Awards – Printable PDF 40 Student Awards Available in Color Available in Black and White Quick and easy to print Student Awards – Editable on Google Slides 40 Student Awards All Editable Titles and Images 6 Blank Student Awards Available in Color Available in Black and White Can download the PowerPoint version from Google Slides LIST OF AWARDS Standing Ovation WOW Factor Heart of Gold Class Leader Star on the Walk of Fame Best Friend to All Super Hero Tech Squad Brighten the Day Bring on the Cheer Class Comedian Future World Leader Bright Scientist Making a Difference Yes I Can! Innovative Thinker Take Action Jedi in Training Captain of the Ship The Great Entertainer When You Wish Upon a Star Shimmering Sparkler All-Star Athlete Multi-Talented Our MVP Class Spotlight Gold Star Scholar Supreme Above and Beyond Exceptional Explorer The Zookeeper Artist at Work Class Imagineer Stylist of the Stars Incredibly Independent Musical Maestro Community Ambassador Glorious Gamer Practice Makes Perfect No Team Without Me You can email us at [email protected] if you have any feedback, questions, and/or requests for resources.
So I was FINALLY uploading some photos from my school camera in preparation for the end of the year and I came across some that I had every ...
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Free printable summer themed I spy activity page for kids. Use this activity to help kids get excited about summer or get yourself some quiet time.
Getting close to the end of the year? Here are several fun end of the year student gifts that you can put together for your students!
What a CRAZY week and weekend!!! We are finished with our state testing and school fair. Yahoo!!! This past week consisted of finishing up state testing, teaching students a dance for the fair performance, painting a picture for the fair silent auction, (see picture below), making over 50 candy apples for the sweets booth, and practicing for the teacher fair performance! Yes, I am one of 11 teachers who actually dances in front of the parents and students at the fair!!! I think the best part of dancing would be attending all practices after school!!! enjoying the fair candy apples for the sweet booth silent auction: each student painted a different picture on the canvas End-of-the-Year Linky Party With state testing & the fair behind me, I can start preparing for the end of the year. I am linking up with Clutter-Free Classroom and sharing my end-of-the-year ideas. I can't believe May is right around the corner!! Where did the school year go? I still need to put together portfolios and make a power point presentation. I love making a power point from all of the pictures I take during the school year. I must admit that it takes over a week to construct because I always find a way to mess up something! It never fails that every year I make some kind of mistake!!! For the portfolios, I save the students' work all year and use sheet protectors in binders. I like to put the work in order from the first to last day for the parents. I put all work in sheet protectors. The parents appreciate the organization of the work so much because it saves them the time of doing it over the summer. Also, students complete a summer writing activity. This writing activity is my favorite one of the year. The creativity that flows from the students' brains is amazing! Students are asked to write about a summer trip they have taken already or plan on taking. After editing the rough draft, students write the final copy of the essay on sunglasses. Students glue glasses on large white construction paper and draw a picture around the glasses. I was amazed the first time I did this with my class. I did not instruct them to draw a person. The end results were more than I imagined! summer writing summer writing end-of-the-year presentation set up Click (HERE) to grab your sunglasses template. What a post! Please check out Clutter-Free Classroom Project and join the End-of-the-Year Linky Party! With much appreciation,
Our Kindergarten teachers approached me with a request for an art project for the back cover of their memory books. The kids have filled out pages in their memory books all year and they wanted a colorful back cover. I found a fun and easy way to make fingerprint art on the Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails blog. Then, we used a great end of year poem by Helen H. Moore. We started by dripping water in pans of … Read more... →
Older students love mentoring younger students! They love feeling like a teacher and an authority on a subject-- any subject! So with this end-of-year activity, I considered these two perspectives. Younger kids are longing for guidance on what to expect in their new classrooms and from their new teachers and older kids are excited to give their best advice. This is not a new activity in my tpt store. It's been in there for a few years. But like a lot of my math activities, I updated this "My Advice to Next Year's Students" pennant with a digital GOOGLE Slides version this year.
Make the end the of the year countdown memorable and learning-filled with these hands-on math, literacy and science Marshmallow Day activities!
Free writing prompts for the end of the year! These end of year writing prompts make perfect whole group writing activities or writing centers.
The Invisible String is used a lot for grief and loss - it's also an amazing book for end of the year counseling lessons!
Happy Saturday! I hope you are enjoying the end of your school year and aren’t too overwhelmed with fitting everything in. Do you have an end of the year celebration with your students? Do you give out student awards? I know many people have gone away from these special events in kindergarten because of the […]
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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
One of my favorite end-of-the-year activities I’ve ever done with my students is an end-of-the-year letter to themselves. I did this one year that I had