Today's Classroom Activities :

Our Year Completed Activities

Our Year Completed
Social Studies/Math Set up a timeline for the school year that can be filled in by the students to show field trips, major units of study, as well as personal events such as moving into your class, the birth of a sibling or perhaps even a death in the family. Look back over all that you've been through together. Celebrate the challenges that have been met and all the wonderful things learned.

Awards Everywhere
Social Studies Students hear about awards all the time – the Newberys, Caldecotts Grammys, Emmys, Tonys etc. Discuss what makes something or someone worthy of receiving an award. Decide who or what would be worthy of an award in your class. After the determination is made, get a local business or parent group to donate a trophy that your class can award at the end of the school year.

Planning a scrapbook
A scrapbook can be a fun, meaningful art project for your students. It's a great project to start at the end of the school year, so kids can add to their scrapbooks during summer break.

Start your scrapbook project by asking your students to bring in photographs of their families, their friends and activities in which they're involved. The photographs may be arranged in a scrapbook in any number of ways: chronological, activity oriented, centered on a particular family member, groups of pictures of the family's house, hometown, family business, pictures of travel and vacations – the possibilities are endless.

To augment the photographs in the scrapbook, have the children bring in items that represent their families and interests, such as postcards of places to which they have traveled; ribbon, wrapping paper or wallpaper; leaves or other organic matter that can be pressed in the book. Also consider brief, well-chosen words to accompany the images. Poetry and prose quotations can be very useful.