Shorty Awards, Dinos and Chicken Soup with Rice

This is a quick and inexpensive end of the year gift for your students. Attach to a glow bracelet and there you go! Click the picture for the freebie!
 
This will be my last Five for Friday and Friday Flashback until school starts again! I have enjoyed  participating in this weekly linky! I hope you were able to get some  new ideas from my posts! I know I found many amazing  new things to do and try from blogging!

1. The Shorty Awards
(Movie Award, Candy Bar Award and Classy Award)

Parents are invited to our

annual Shorty Awards.

(I didn't get any pictures of parents!!!)

Students walk the red carpet and

 receive an award for their 

performances in our three class movies. 

I buy the Movie Buff awards

 at Oriental Trading.

  They give an acceptance speech.

I award them their Classy Award and their Candy Bar Award.

I have done these for years. Mine were NOT cute! I found these from Reagan and they are FREE!!! Much better!

We eat snacks while watching a movie (picture slideshow) of our year. (I forgot the before picture!)

We view our star biographies and Walk of Fame stars.

We get star autographs

and the paparazzi take pics!

The award certificates and

the autograph page go into

their scrapbooks.  The scrapbooks

contains their quarterly self-portraits,

writing samples, a letter from their

parent when they were star of the week,

letters to Santa and the president as

well as the president's letter to them.

I am sure I am forgetting some things!

At the end of they day,

we watch the 3 movies we made!

Where Are They Now?

The Peter Rabbit Operetta

The Mother's Day Tea

2. Dinosaurs

This is a t-rex footprint!

Does anyone know where I can

get these plastic dino skeletons????

I have had them for years and can't

find them to buy more! I bake them

in chocolate cupcakes for the students

to "dig" for dinosaurs.  They love this

and I hated not doing it with my class

this year! I only had 20 left! 

They don't actually glow...

this guy is orange and the flash

from my camera did something wonky!

3. Character Counts

Each quarter we have a Character

Counts party to celebrate the students

who have achieved character counts behavior.

We were supposed to go to the park,

but due to the rain, rain, rain,

we had to have it in the gym.

We played fun songs for 30 minutes 

while the kids and staff danced.

We also enjoyed popsicles. 

Quarter 1- bowling at a bowling alley

Quarter 2- games in the classroom

Quarter 3- movie with popcorn and drink

4. Chicken Soup with Rice

For one of our weekly poems,

at the beginning of each month,

we read the Chicken Soup with Rice

poem out of our big book for that month.

I have typed copies for the kids to put

in their poetry binder.

At the end of the school year, we watch

the video and have chicken soup with rice.

I didn't take pictures!

I couldn't find a big book to link to it.

I couldn't find the video to link to it either!

5.  Track and Field Day

Track and Field was cut short because

of the rain. The two events that we did have 

were on the cement in front of the

school instead of the football field.

A little disappointing but they had

fun anyway!

Thanks for stopping by!

Wizard of Oz, Puppy Palooza, Lemonade Stand, Poetry Parade and a Book Swap

Click the picture above for your freebie!

I will add these tags to

a glow bracelet for a cheap

and easy end of year gift for

my students! I do several other

things as well! Check back next 

next Friday for all of my end of the

year activities!

  

1. Wizard of Oz

This is what greeted the students

Monday morning. Students were 

guessing away about what it could be

and what happened.  Later that day,

we looked through this cool pop up book.

We then watched The Wizard of Oz.

           

Click on the above pics to check these units out!

We used parts of both this week.

Toto showed up to visit this week!

2. Puppy Palooza

        

This is an adorable unit and idea I read about on Reagan's blog. I just knew it would be perfect for 

an end of year activity! The kiddos are loving it! 

They got to adopt a puppy and teach it to read!

TOTAL engagement AND AT THE END OF THE YEAR!!!

It is based on the book How Rocket Learned to Read.

Click here and here to check it out on TpT!

I had about 15 dogs and found another 15 at our

used store in town.  They donated them all to me since it was for school! 

Our award ceremony for our

puppies who learned to read!

3. Lemonade Stand

My first graders sold lemonade  before and after school. We were going to donate the money to a  children's hospital this year, but after the tornado in Moore, OK, they want to send the money to the schools.  Last year, the kids voted to support Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a wonderful cause as well.

4. Poetry Parade
I have most of our weekly poems on large posters.  I glued a copy of  the poem on the back of the posters. At the end of the year, we go on  a poetry parade and read our poems to the Kindergarten, 2nd grade and 3rd. Students could wear a silly hat for the parade and as you can see, this year, most forgot them!

5. Book Swap
Students decorate a cereal box, which becomes their summer reading box. They may bring up to 5 books to swap. The 2nd grade teacher and I lay out all of our books that we have saved for the  swap and the kids lay out their books. We send a few at a time to choose a new book, taking turns until they have chosen the number of books that they brought to the swap. At the end, we let the kids each choose  one more book as a surprise.

 

Thanks for stopping by!