End of Year Activities

1. Take your class outside

a. Teach your lesson plan outside. You may need to make
accommodation by having clipboards for students to write on (or they
can use a large textbook). If you have a small blackboard or
whiteboard, you can have the students copy information you write.
2. Create a project
a. Regardless of your subject, you can think of creative projects that the
kids can dobased on topics youve recently studied.or even assign
groups to do a review project each of the themes youve studies this
year.
3. Have students write (and illustrate) a childrens book. This can be from the
very simplest of stories to more complex stories for older students. Kids
especially love to create cartoon type booksgraphic novels so to speak. But
structure it so that they are meeting learning objectives.
4. Have students create a talk show on the various topics theyve studied this
year.
5. Create a class scrapbook
6. Create an ABC bookyou can choose from topics youve discussed during the
year.
7. Teach a fun unit that is not necessarily in the textbook. There are lots of
great ideas available on the internet.
8. Write poemsFirst of all present this poem to the students
a. Im Glad I was your Teacher

Im glad I was your teacher.

Ive come to like you so.
I cant believe the end is near.
I hate to see you go.

Remember all the fun we had.

In all the things we did.
But most of all remember
Youre a very special kid.

b. Then ask the students to write a poem titled Im Glad I was your
Student

9. Team Problem Solving

a. Put students in to groups to solve a variety of puzzle type activities.
(You can find these types of activities on the internet.

10. Show What You Know

a. Assign each student (or pairs) to teach the class somethingcan be
knowledge, skill, hobby, caligraphy, origami, make a , etc.
11. On campus Field Trips
a. Take them on a nature walk and take notes on all the interesting
things they see.
b. Take them outside and close their eyeslist all the things they hear,
smell, feel,
c. Prepare a scavenger hunt of things they might be able to find on
campus
d. Library scavenger hunt
e. Prepare a poetry slam, readers theater or mini-fair
12. Take Ownership
a. Tell the kids you are giving them ownership of a planet, song, career,
author, school, country, movie star, singer, etc.The student then
becomes an expert of the topic and presents it to the class
13. Make a commercial for a product, story, textbook, class, school, teacher, etc.
14. Play educational games such as:
a. Balderdash, Pictionary, Hangman, etcto practice vocabulary words
and meanings
15. Create an autograph book.
a. Have students write a short description of themselvesa little
autobiographical perhaps. Add a photo.
b. Put these together in a book
c. Make sure there is room in the book for students to collect signatures
of all their classmates and teachers
16. Create Learning Centers
a. Develop 6 or 8 learning centers and allow the students to rotate
through them.
17. Make a class newsletter
a. Ask each students to write about one of their favorite activities from
the classput them all together and share with everyone
18. Do Read aloud sessions outside on the grass.
19. Create Team Challenges
a. Such as the Egg Drop Challenge, Tower building challenge, bridge
building challenge
20. Create a skit or play and present to class.
21. Bring in some picture books and do some picture book lessons. Then have
students create their own picture books
22. Create a class quilt
23. Have students bring in their favorite possession and share it with class.
24. Review Themes
a. Assign each group of students a theme from the year
b. Ask them to create a review presentation of the main ideas of that
topic
25. Off campus field trip
a. Organize a fun activity for your students (be sure to get all
permissions, etc., before pursuing this one)
26. Games like Jeopardy and Do You Want to be a Millionaireto review
concepts taught during the year. There are plenty of suggestions around this
on the internet.
27. Bingo
28. Geocaching
29. Create a Treasure Hunt
a. Hide some treasures around the campus. Create a map. Make up
some clues.
30. Play 20 Questions
31. Make and fly kites
32. Put together a collage of pictures you have taken of various events and
students. Share it with the students. Have them write about their favorite
memories.
33. Teach playground games (cultural information) such as Kick the Can, Anti
I Over, Capture the Flag
34. Play Charades
35. Newspaper activities
36. Short story activities
37. Use lots of classroom games
38. Use lots of interactive strategies
39. Use technology