How great would this be to create about your subject, grade level, a specials teacher, etc? A great closing activity!

I used to have my students FILL an 8 1/2 sheet of copy paper full of all the things we’d learned cumulatively  from the past year. they could use their books, their journals, etc. I’d ask that they’d be as colorful and FULL as possible and that was what I used to decorate my bulletin boards when we came back to school. I made sure they knew that I expected it to take them a LONG time, and that the best would be featured in the hall, 🙂 a win win for all!

posterly,

Amber

Have each student, on a sheet of notebook paper create different scrabble tiles. Then, go outside and play team scrabble! You can do a theme version, a nouns only, or verbs only version…best adjective wins a prize! So easy and so fun!

Tile-y,

Amber

Have you let your students create something this year? Have they had the opportunity to show off their high thinking skills?

I loved 5th grades angry bird’s animal adaptations that they have up right now.  It took something that students enjoy and allowed them to create an adapted animal. Remmeber that our fab fifth graders have this to think about:

5.9 Science Concept. The student knows that adaptations may increase the survival of
members of a species.

The student is expected to:
(A) compare the adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to
survive and reproduce in an ecosystem;
(B) analyze and describe adaptive characteristicsthat result in an organism’s unique
niche in an ecosystem: and
(C) predict some adaptive characteristics required for survival and reproduction by
an organism in an ecosystem.

Here’s also a few sites to help your students get digitally creative, :0

A balloon pop is a cute idea for students to do at the end of the year serving as a countdown. Each student writes a reward/activity that they would like to do. Then they turn them into you and you can pick the ones you want to do inside a balloon and blow them up. Then the students get to pop one balloon a day resulting in a different activity to count down for the last few days of school!

Pop-ily,

Amber

This activity includes a worksheet set up as an “end of year” activity AND a blank version for you to adapt as you see fit – I’ve used it for review questions / work and the kids like to use it.