Oh My Word!!!!???!! Where has the time gone? It is already the last week of school!ย
I just wanted to pop in and share some of the activities weโll be doing for the last week of school!ย
Weโll go day by day to keep it organize!
Monday!
Oh Monday, fundayโฆ thatโs how that goes right? ๐ First thing Monday morning, weโve got our parent presentation of, โScience Rocks! A Journey through 2nd Grade Scienceโ. Weโve been practicing our little hearts out for the past 6 weeks for this presentation. I am supppper excited for our parents to finally see all our hard work come to life!ย
After our presentation, Iโm inviting parents back to the classroom for some refreshments, pictures, and a mini award ceremony. Iโm using these cute awards from Foxwell Forest.ย
I printed out the black-line version of these onto colorful paper. I loved how I was able to perfectly match each award to a studentโs personality or strength in our classroom. I canโt wait to give them out! Did I mention they are animal themed, so they work perfectly for younger kiddos and big kids too?ย
After all the commotion is over in the am, weโve got academics planned for the pm!ย
Scholastic had, โThe Chocolate Touchโ on sale for a $1 in last monthโs book club catalog.
ย I went ahead a purchased a class set and will be including that as an โEnd of the Yearโ gift to my students. But to get students started in on the book a little early, weโll be using it as a read allowed for the rest for the rest of the week.ย
Weโll be using some activities from CreateTeachShareโs โThe Chocolate Touch Reading Packetโ+
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and this pack from Nicole Shelby!
Tuesday!
After all the hustle and bustle from Monday, Iโll be happy to see Tuesday.ย
Weโve been working on filling up our summer buckets to use over the summer. You can read a little bit more about those here!ย
On Tuesday, weโll be adding our self-checking Basic Fact Flash Cards.ย
I have some kiddos ready to make multiplication flash cards instead, so theyโll be making these!ย
If you want to send home some EASY to make flash cards, you can grab those at my TpT store by clicking the links above. Need both sets? Click here!ย
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Tuesday also begins our โFun Dayโ Activities. Last week I sent home a letter to parents detailing events for this up coming week.ย
You can grab this letter in an editable version here for FREE! Use it for your upcoming last week of school, or save it for next year!ย
For reading, weโll continue to read, โThe Chocolate Touchโ.ย
Tuesday is also scheduled to be โGame Dayโ. Iโm following an โearn a rewardโ style system with these fun days similar to Amy Lemonโs paper chain idea. You can read about that idea here.
If students are able to spell out โBoard Gamesโ by making good choices as a class, weโll have an afternoon of fun playing the games students brought in! This will be a perfect time for the teacher to get some of those last days of school items finished up!
Wednesday
For us, Wednesday are usually early days, and the last week of school is no exception. Weโll continue through our โChocolate Touchโ read aloud and hopefully work on the Nicoleโs Lap book. ย ย
This week, weโll also be working through my โOur National Monumentsโ Tour pack.ย
Monuments are not formally in our curriculum, but I love using Google Earth as a way to show the students parts of our Great Nation! You can read more about that here! ย
Our fun activity reward for Wednesday is โBuddy Dayโ, if by the afternoon students can spell out โBuddy Readโ with their awesome choices, weโll have a read-a-thon with a special buddy from home!ย
Thursday
The second to last day of school is usually a pretty challenging one. I figured weโd wrap up our read aloud (I donโt want to finish the ENTIRE book and ruin the ending! LOL! I want them to actually read it over the summer!) Plans for Thursday will also include getting ready for summer with some lemonade writing from this pack,ย
Hereโs a peek at the craft weโll makeโฆ
This week for science, I thought itโd be fun to do a little non-fiction unit on Bugs. In years past, Iโve usually done Ocean Animals the last week of school, but oceans is a very common theme at our school, so I thought Iโd change things up a bit and pull in some bug fun! Weโll be working out of Leslieโs Bug pack!
Our reward for the afternoon is a Pizza Party! Weโre spelling โPizza Partyโ for that one!
Friday
Friday is the last day of school for the kiddos. Itโll be a tear soaked day even though teachers still have to come back on Monday and Tuesday for post-planning. If I play my cards right, those will be โeasyโ days to get organized for next year.ย
Friday will be dedicated to making Fatherโs day crafts, cleaning out our desks, and finishing any odds and ends from the week. Weโll also work on this fun end of the year memory craft.
This is part of my โSchool Dayโsโ Memory book pack. You can check that out here!ย
Our reward for the day? An Ice Cream party with a movie viewing of โA Bugโs Lifeโ to sum up our Insects unit!ย
That about sums up our last week of school! Be back later this week to share what Iโve made as a โThank youโ gift for my parent volunteers. How many more days do you have left?!