Themed Days: End of the Year Activities that will Engage and Motivate
The end of the year is always hard to keep your students engaged and motivated. In my room I try to make the last week fun and memorable. Each day we do different end of the year activities that are theme based. Each day my students are excited to see what we will be doing next. Here is a peek at a little bit of each day!
We learn about how popcorn is grown, make our own popcorn invention, and do a popcorn experiment.
We also do a taste testing activity with different popcorn flavors.
and then end the day with popcorn and a movie!!!
End of the Year Activities: Beach Day
On this day we bring our beach towels to school. We head outside and spend part of the day reading in the sun!!! We build pretend sand castles and write about them. I give each child a book mark that says, “1st grade was a Ball”! The day is spent reading, writing, and doing word work review on our beach towels with our friends.
With the help from donations and parent volunteers, we have an ice cream social with all kinds of goodies. We learn how to make ice cream, invent our own flavor of ice cream and read lots of fun books.
Check out this cute little ice cream gift from a parent!
The craft for the day is a review craft. We make ice cream cones that are REALLY tall. On each scoop we write one thing we loved about the year!
The kids go a little crazy and add as many scoops as they can!
Last year this was a new one and I am SOOOO excited to do this again this year. I put the chairs and tables up and we do everything around a campfire! First up, the children work in groups to create their own campfires to sit around.
Check out the cute fire above! Then we read lots of stories, write and do fun activities. This day wouldn’t be complete without some s’mores and a s’more craft!
They have a blast and it is so memorable!! It is the perfect way to end the year.
If this looks like fun, I have bundled all these goodies together! If you purchase the bundle, you get one day for free!
I’m Megan, a first grade teacher and a mother to 7 amazing children. I love to create and collaborate with teachers. When I’m not teaching, I love spending time with my family, baking and playing tennis.