Easy Activities for the End of the School Year

I don’t know when the end of the school year comes for you, but we have 10 days of school left as I write this. I’m not a teacher but I know how hard it can be to teach kids or do anything remotely educational this time of year.

We want these last days in the classroom to be fun and memorable but not a complete waste of learning time.

Minds in Bloom has a great list of end of the year activities that will keep kids engaged and learning. There are ideas for reflecting on the year, brainstorming ideas for summer, learning with sidewalk chalk, doing good deads, and of course celebrating the year with special events.

I love the idea of having a book swap because we all know reading during the summer is so important.

How many days of school do you have left? How are you preparing?

[Photo: Minds in Bloom]

If you are looking for fun active games to get the kids moving, I highly recommend this Floor Is Lava Board Game

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Fun End of the School Year Activities for the Classroom

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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