~~End of the Year Goodies~~

I can't believe this school year is almost over!  I have only 5 days of school left, Friday is our last day.  I will miss my kiddos dearly but am super excited to start my summer vacation.  Next school year will bring so many changes for me~~new partner teacher (SUPER excited!!), best friend coming back to teach at my school (YAHOO!!), my baby girl is starting 8th grade at another school (BOO HOO!), and 3rd grade will switch classes next year (SCARED!!)!!  I will need the summer to get ready for my 27+ new students next year. I love planning over the summer and will need this summer to prepare for switching classes.  Switching won't be so bad, I will teach religion to 2 classes.  I am really happy about not teaching science and social studies too!!  I always have a hard time fitting these 2 subjects in on a daily basis.

My students have been really busy these last 2 weeks doing my favorite all-time writing assignment~~~My Favorite Summer Vacation!  I just love this writing and really LOVE how the finished essays turn out.  Check them out below.  You can click (HERE) to download the sunglasses template.  You need to make 2 copies and tape them together.  See below!!

  


This year I decided to give out Candy Awards.  I literally ran all over town looking for each type of candy.  I even had my honey helping me (He was so cute going from store to store!)!  I had the hardest time finding Lifesavers (Who would believe that?!).  You can download your own set of Candy Awards from Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits.  I found these awards during the summer and have been saving them all year.  Check them out below!  I can't wait to share them with my students tomorrow!!!

 

Here is just a taste of what the awards look like! They are precious!!!!

 

Here is a fun project I did with my class last week.  I found this idea on Pinterest and just HAD to try it with my class!  Look at the pictures below and try to see the shape! I am in LOVE with this!!

~~Manic Monday @ Classroom Freebies~~

I am so happy to be joining Manic Mondays @ Classroom Freebies!!!!  I created a writing activity for my students.  I am always looking for creative ways to get my students writing at the end of school.  I just love reading what my students write to me! Here is a "Letter to my Teacher" writing activity.  Please enjoy!
                                                          Letter to My Teacher Freebie

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I love my students!!!

I can't believe the end is almost here!  We have only 15 days of school left! YAHOO!!!  I am so ready for the summer~~and I know my students are too!  To show how much I love & appreciate my kiddos, I give them an end-of-the-year gift.  I love, love spoiling my students all year and just love sending them into the summer with some goodies!  Take a look at the following picture to get an idea of what I give my students.

I include the following items in the basket: bottle of water, bag of chips, bag of popcorn, chalk, recipe for Play Dough, crazy straw, freezie pop, bottle of bubbles, and a book from Scholastic.  I purchase baskets from the Dollar Tree. I include cute little sayings on several items in the basket.

                       **Popcorn: Don't forget to "Pop"in to see me next year!
                       **Straw: Hope you have a "Crazy" summer!
                       **Chalk: Let's "Chalk" up another great year!
                       **Water: I make labels to wrap around bottle (see freebie below)
                       **Freezie: Have a "Cool" summer!



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Summer Goodies Freebie

family gift saying

note for basket

water bottle wraps

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Summer Freebie

I can't believe I have only 16 more days until summer! I am trying to get my activities together for the students.  I made some stationary for my letter to parents.  Please enjoy this freebie!

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Summer Stationary

End-of-the-Year Linky Party



What a CRAZY week and weekend!!!  We are finished with our state testing and school fair.  Yahoo!!! This past week consisted of finishing up state testing, teaching students a dance for the fair performance, painting a picture for the fair silent auction, (see picture below), making over 50 candy apples for the sweets booth, and practicing for the teacher fair performance!  Yes, I am one of 11 teachers who actually dances in front of the parents and students at the fair!!!  I think the best part of dancing would be attending all practices after school!!!


enjoying the fair

candy apples for the sweet booth

silent auction: each student painted a different picture on the canvas




End-of-the-Year Linky Party

With state testing & the fair behind me, I can start preparing for the end of the year. I am linking up with Clutter-Free Classroom and sharing my end-of-the-year ideas.  I can't believe May is right around the corner!!  Where did the school year go?  I still need to put together portfolios and make a power point presentation.  I love making a power point from all of the pictures I take during the school year.  I must admit that it takes over a week to construct because I always find a way to mess up something!  It never fails that every year I make some kind of mistake!!!  For the portfolios, I save the students' work all year and use sheet protectors in binders.  I like to put the work in order from the first to last day for the parents.  I put all work in sheet protectors.  The parents appreciate the organization of the work so much because it saves them the time of doing it over the summer. 


Also, students complete a summer writing activity.  This writing activity is my favorite one of the year.  The creativity that flows from the students' brains is amazing!  Students are asked to write about a summer trip they have taken already or plan on taking.  After editing the rough draft, students write the final copy of the essay on sunglasses.  Students glue glasses on large white construction paper and draw a picture around the glasses.  I was amazed the first time I did this with my class.  I did not instruct them to draw a person.  The end results were more than I imagined!

summer writing

summer writing

end-of-the-year presentation set up

 

 

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With much appreciation,