Those
last few weeks of school really feel like a whirlwind! I am happy to say that my summer has started
and I am enjoying every moment with my sweet daughter Nora. I didn’t realize how long it had been since I
posted, so here goes. ….
The
end of the year is always a hard time because I never really know what to get
to the kiddos. This year I decided to do
a little of everything. I borrowed this
cute bucket idea from my fellow teacher friend and the kids loved it. I bought 18 sand buckets from the Dollar Tree
and had my kids go around sign each bucket.
This was the perfect filler for field day and also made a wonderful
keepsake with all their friends autographs.
Inside the buckets I placed bubbles, Kool-Aide packets, crazy straws and
a personalized word cloud. I will tell
more about those later.
I
bet you are wondering what all those papers in the buckets are??? The teacher
in me couldn’t resist some ready for 2nd grade activities for them
to do over the summer. The buckets also had summer journals, fact practice, and
review skills packets. If they do some
of it and bring it back to me the first week of school I will give them a
coupon for a free ice cream cone. It is
true that if you stop reading and reviewing over those three months and you
usually loose a level in reading and skills ; ( Sad but true! The ready for second grade ideas came from A Year of many Firsts.
So
here is a little peek at the word clouds I made for each kid. These are even more special because the words
in the cloud were all words that their peers used to describe them. They loved, I loved, the parents LOVED
them. I used Tagul.com and you can learn more about how to create
these from www.polksdottedteacher.blogspot.com
she has a wonderful video tutorial. Are they not the cutest!
The
last day of school was bittersweet. It
is hard to have lots of plans for the last two days, but we made the most of
the cleaning process. I HATE shaving
cream, but I always use it on the desks for the last day and the kids love
it. We practiced math problems and quizzed
friends over sight words. That way if my
principal stepped in it didn’t look like mad chaos.
I
would love to know fun things you always do those last couple days with your
kids! Please share your ideas below. On
a side note I turn 30 in a few day and decided to actually buy something for
me. I AM IN LOVE!!!! I am pretty sure my classroom will have a label for
everything.
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