End Of School Lessons and Teacher Resources

Art:

• If you want to show your students that they indeed “left their mark” in your class, try this idea (K-2)
• This craft activity is part of a “Day Camp in Hawaii Unit” suitable for summer school, after-school, scouts or other youth groups (1-3)

Computers & Internet:

• This is an awesome must-do end-of-year “Picture PowerPoint Party for Parents” idea (5)
• This is the same idea with a twist – students make their own presentations (5)

Language Arts:

• Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea (K-12)
• Students write a letter to their next teacher in this end-of-year activity (1-4)
• Here students make postcards to mail to themselves or their teacher over the summer (1-4)
• This idea starts out as a bulletin board and ends as a memory book compilation of student writing assignments (1-5)
• This is a beginning and end of the year activity called “Memory Book” (2-5)
• “Odes to my (Bilingual) Classroom” is a good end of the year idea (2-6)
• In this idea, students write letters to themselves at the beginning of the year and read them at the end of the year (3-6)
• This poem template helps students create poetry to be read by next year’s class (3-6)

• In this lesson, students write letters to next year’s students at the end of the year (4-8)
• This is a variation of the same idea (5-8)
• Need a fun end of school filler project? Your students will love these online research ideas! (7-12)
• Here students write a parody of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” covering the events of the last school year or years (7-12)

Multidisciplinary:

• Here’s a good spring activity idea using “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (Science P-K)
• This is a great idea for a beginning and end of school lesson – using a time capsule to demonstrate students’ learning (LA K-6)

Music:

• These songs are good to use at the end of the school year (P-2)
• Here is an end-of-year music class idea: Sing around the Campfire (K-5)

PE:

• “Summer Safety Safari” encourages summer safety by developing safety posters (1)

Science:

• This end-of-year activity produces next year’s bulletin board (3-5)

Social Science:

• This is an idea to celebrate the end of the school year with a Juneteenth Presentation Celebration (MO)
• Click here for more Juneteenth lesson plans and an extensive resource list (MO)

Other:

• Making murals on bulletin board paper is a creative end-of-year filler idea (K-2)
• Kids love this end-of-year autographed pillowcase/t-shirt idea (K-3)
• This idea involves taking “then and now” student pictures for a name learning aid and end of year gift (K-6)
• This idea is for creating end of the year autograph books (1-4)
• This end of the year idea involves creating a “Words of Wisdom” poster for next year’s students (1-5)
• This end-of-year beachball signing activity reminds students that “School was a BALL!” (1-5)
• This end-of-school classroom scrapbook idea uses digital photos, poems, and quotes (1-6)
• This is a clever idea for returning students’ work: Pringles Time Capsules (1-6)
• This idea rewards students with a Read-In Day or Game Day (2-6)
• This idea has students presenting their own awards to classmates (3-5)
• “Talking Behind Your Back” is a positive and fun end-of-year activity idea (4-5)
• Here chewing gum games chill chatty children (MO)
• This is a “Best Part of the Year Was…” charades idea (MO)
• Here’s an end-of-year class memory book and poster contest idea (MO)

• Here is an inspirational “I CAN do it!” poem to give your students on the last day
• Finally, here is Hot Chalk’s cartoon on wrapping things up for summer.