These are a few of my favorite books that I love sharing with my students towards the end of the school year. These books are perfect for read aloud and having students reflect upon their school school year. I love reading the books and having students make connections with the characters and theme of each book.
HELPFUL TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL END OF THE YEAR
Set weekly and daily goals: Set goals for you and your class! It always helps me to create a calendar to set weekly goals, activities, ideas I want to complete during the last month of the school year. Some things I include are: packing up, memory books, autograph signing, awards, planning for next years, labeling stuff, organizing.
Do not take that down, yet: Do not start taking down stuff and packing until it is totally necessary. You students will see you taking down stuff and they assume school is out! Then you WONDER… why is my class acting silly? You can start organizing and putting stuff that has been sitting out since November, but seriously… try not to be that classroom with everything off your wall. An easy tip if you are wanting to remove your bulletin boards is to place some motivational posters to encourage positive mindset.
Creative Projects: This is the perfect time of the year to let your creative juices flow. Those fun projects that you have had sitting there can actually happen now. My students would love those book club cereal boxes, diorama projects, STEM projects, research projects and more. We were finished with state testing so we pulled out all the glitter, hot glue gun, and construction paper and got to work. You will truly enjoy this time seeing how creative your students are and they will have a blast learning.
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