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
I have an system for cleaning my classroom at the end of the school year I want to share with you. I do not clean the classroom room at the end of the year... my class and I clean the entire classroom together. And it is easy... as 1, 2, 3. Step 1. I change the choice board which normally is for Daily 5 into cleaning jobs in the room. Each student can select … [Read more...]
