Later, have kids toss balloons like graduation caps , keeping one to pop and share its anonymously written message aloud —with the rest of the group. Actually, work the last part out in a way that the majority of the group likes—read one message, several messages, or all or no messages. A nice way to end the school year! Need: Paper, markers, tape 1.
Everyone gets a piece of paper taped to their back. Make sure their name is at the top of the paper. Each person is given a marker. Each person in the group must walk around the room and write a compliment or positive remark about that person on their back….. When everyone has written something positive on each others back, they return to their seat and read what was written.
With a smaller group, everyone exchanges papers without looking at their own. Adjust for a larger group. This is a great self-esteem booster for kids! Consider having children write letters introducing themselves to the classroom teachers they will have NEXT year. Student letters might include information about themselves, their families, their hobbies and interests, their strengths and weaknesses in school, and so on. That way, teachers can start the new school year knowing a little something about their new students.
It will be beneficial to both the children and the new supervisor! To make it easier for the kids, you could also put together a form letter where they just fill in the blanks! At the end of the year have each child make an autograph book. Makes 4 to 6 sandwiches. Place a miniature peanut butter cup—bottom up on a plate. Top with a small dollop of frosting or peanut butter and then press on a chocolate-covered graham cracker.
For a tassel, tightly roll up a small square of fruit leather. Cut fringe on one end and attach the other end to the center of the graham cracker with another dab of frosting or peanut butter. Thomas On Friday: Back at school. You can choose your own islands. A fun way to end the year! These are just ideas and can be combined any way you wish…. Throughout the year, teachers, parents, community members, peers, and others can write messages to the students in the journals; you can also include activity photographs.
Working on these throughout the year, will provide a wonderful keepsake for your graduating youth. Or… Instead of presenting a journal to the students, have students record their thoughts in a journal during the school year: Things for which they are thankful. Present the journal to their parents at the end of the year. Children can create individual scrapbooks with pictures, favorite sayings, stories and art work saved during the year!
At the end of the school year, have students write themselves a letter. Tell them that no one but they will read this letter so they can say anything they want in it. However, part of that letter might include who their friends are, their current height and weight, favorite movies and music, and special things both good and bad that occurred during the year.
Encourage youth to also include a current picture. What would they like to accomplish by this time next year or sooner. Students seal this letter in an envelope, self-address it, and give it to you. In a year or sooner mail or return in person the letters to the students.
The directions are slightly different for eighth-graders. Ask them to write ten goals they would like to accomplish by the end of the next four years. They seal these, self-address them, and give them to you. Mail those letters back to them at the beginning of their senior year.
Original directions for this activity say to mail at the end of their Senior year; however mailing them sooner will remind youth of their goals. They still have a year left! They could contribute pages to a single handbook, or brainstorm a list of helpful tips and information; this could be used to create mini handbooks.
Tons of ideas if you check out the categories of :. The last week of school can often go into extremely hot days… During that week, hold a Water Fun themed day! Similar to a day of Field activities. Stations could include:. The person who described the Water Station Day—said they also had the village fire truck visit to spray anyone and everyone! A great idea on its own!!! With activities finished—all dried off and changed clothes so that no one went home wet.
It was a great cool off and quite a nice change for the last week of school. Idea from John Coomer. Something like this is also a nice idea when graduating from Kindergarten or Grade School…. Although he would have attained his growth in spite of me, it has been my pleasure and privilege to watch his personality unfold day by day and marvel at this splendid miracle of development.
We have lived, laughed, played, studied, learned, and enriched our lives together this year. Take care of him, or her for he she is precious. Get creative! Make up some fun and unique awards for your students. You can purchase award certificates at your local teacher supply store. You may also want to create them yourself on a PC or download a template from the internet. Suggestions: Make up awards to match candy bars, such as:. Return to top of page. On a nice day—take this activity outside!
This is a fun and simple balloon game for kids. Each child is given a balloon and then the kids space out around the room. When you say go they need to try and keep the balloon up in the air without touching the ground. What You Need — Square Foam blocks as your ice cubes — look at the dollar store by fake flowers.
Divide up kids into two teams, then line them up for a relay race. See which team can finish first. We did this at a family holiday party and it was tons of fun too! The Players need to toss the snowball ping pong ball into the plastic cup. To make it harder space the cups further away. See which child can get the most ping pong balls into the cups.
Minute to Win it Games are really fun party games because you can rotate through the groups of kids quickly so that all can play in a limited amount of time. Perfect for quick classroom parties. This is another great Winter party game. Players must stack 3 marshmallows in under 1 minute. They use chopsticks to build up their snowman. Younger kids can use oversized marshmallows and older players can use mini-marshmallows. If you have a mixed age group use the regular size marshmallows.
Tip: For players that have a hard time using chopsticks, we use cheater chopsticks for our kids. What You Need — 42 red solo cups. Kids have one minute to unstack the cups and create a pyramid then restack the cups back into each other. Use the timer on your phone for this and write down the time they finish. At the end look at the times to find a winner. Just add more cups if you want to have more than two kids compete at a time.
What You Need -5 Solo cups and 10 ping pong balls per player, masking tape. This is a Minute to Win it Game for Tweens so try this with older 4th or 5th graders. Each player or a team of two players together is given 10 ping pong balls. When the timer starts players need to roll their ping pong balls and try to get all their balls to land in a cup in 1 minute. If you roll all your ping pong balls and still have time on the clock players can pick up balls that fell on the ground and keep going.
What You Need — box of plastic spoons, 24 ping pong balls, 8 small paper bowls —. This game is for four kids at a time. Give each a spoon and two bowls. In one bowl add six ping pong balls. Kids have one minute to try to transfer the ping pong balls to the other bowl using only the spoon in their mouth. They may not use their hands. For Winter Parties pretend the ping pong balls are snowballs.
What You Need — box of straws, and items to race, blue painters tape. This game can be customized by the time of year the party happens. For Halloween get some spider rings cut off the ring part and you have a spider to race.
A carnival, whether held in the classroom as a theme party or in the schoolyard for the whole school, is a thrilling, summer-fun preview for students at the end of the school year. Many of the booths and carnival games can be made from simple supplies, such as cardboard and paint. Parents may help run the games and provide additional carnival elements, such as face painting and making snow cones.
Throw a beach or luau-themed party in celebration of the upcoming summer and that the school year that has passed. They can use them to sit on the floor and have a beach party picnic. This indoor beach party may provide some inspiration for beach-themed games, crafts, and food for your classroom's beach-themed celebration.
Play a balloon pop game during the last few weeks of school. Have each student write their favorite memory on a piece of paper. Fold the memories and place each one inside a balloon before inflating with helium. Hang ribbons from the balloons and let them float to the ceiling of the classroom. Each day, pull one down by its ribbon, pop it, and read the memory. Then spend the day recreating the experience that sparked the memory, or have each student write something special he or she remembers about that particular day.
If the kids are looking forward to some summertime camping, why make them wait? A classroom camping day is a fun way to end the school year with your students. Drape sheets or blankets over the desks to create classroom tents under which kids can gather to make shadow puppets with flashlights. A faux campfire is a great place to gather for indoor s'mores , storytelling, and a campfire sing-along.
Take your first graders on a field trip—to the second grade! Arrange with a teacher from the next grade to have your students spend some time in his or her classroom. While visiting the next grade, kids can participate in an activity and ask questions of the older students about what to expect in the next school year.
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