At the end of the school year, I love to create a class movie with all the pictures and videos from our learning adventures. Today I am going to share with you a simple and fun way to share this class movie with your families. Make Your Class Movie First, you need to actually make a class movie. There are really endless possibilities to make this, so choose what works the best for you. You … [Read more...]
Tips & Tricks for an Amazing End of the Year Slideshow
Who is searching for fun ways to make an easy and amazing end of the year slideshow to share with your students and families? Every year this topic is brought up so lets break it down to make it easy for you. More Than One Way There are many ways you can create an amazing end of the year slideshow. I am going to share with you a few ways I can do this on a PC. I do not own a mac, but I know … [Read more...]
End of The Year Tears or Cheers?
Does the end of the school year bring you to tears? Does the end of the school year bring you to get up and cheer? Chances are, as an educator who gives your all to your students, your classroom, and your second home of your school, you feel a little of both of these emotions. Teachers have cheers for their students. You cheer because that student learned how to read... but they really … [Read more...]
How to Make a DVD Free Class Movie
One of favorite things to make my class each year is an end of the year slideshow or class movie. It is a fun way to wrap up the year, celebrating all of our learning activities and events. One of my least favorite things to do is to burn 20-25 DVDs. I hate doing to the store to buy them, then staying up all night burning copy after copy. A few copies won't work so I create a few extra. Even … [Read more...]
End of the Year Exhaustion
My countdown to the end of school is sitting at 5. My countdown to our big graduation play and program is 2. You know what that means? I am officially in the epitome of the End of the Year Exhaustion Zone. The to do list is ever growing. I get at a minimum 10 emails a day of things that need to be done by a particular deadline. And all those deadlines are before post planning. I no … [Read more...]
End of the Year Ideas
I am a believer that you can end the year well and set yourself up for success for the upcoming school year. How??? Well, I am so glad you asked! Let me show you how I end each and every school year. I do 4 things at the end of each year to set myself up for success... First... I stack all those items that will need students names. In K, we write names on EVERYTHING and it takes forever... … [Read more...]
End of the Year Clean Up
As the end of the school year nears, I want to share with you a system for cleaning my classroom at the end of the school year. It will save your sanity and keep those little learners busy on those last few days of school. Who Should Help with the End of the Year Clean Up? The first year I taught, I felt like I had to complete all the end of the year cleaning. It took forever and it was … [Read more...]
