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end of year ideas
By Cathy-Dee

Depending on your grade level you might be able to use or modify some of these ideas

- make a year end newspaper - highlighting events from the past year, etc.,
- have 5 theme days, beach, jungle, camping, popcorn,
bubbles, science madness, backwards day, etc., Plan your day around these days with special foods, dressing up, music, etc., Even jr/sr high students can enjoy these types of days if you do the theme with them in mind. Instead of beach days, do a Caribbean theme.
- Field trips - if budgets are hard to come by, what about anything within walking distance.
- plant a garden for

the school - flower beds, etc.,
- have a kite making day - there are some great sites on the web with instructions on how to make kites.
- have a paper airplane contest
- write a letter to the student who will be sitting in their desk next year. Have them tell about some of the things they enjoyed the most.
- For older students - have them research via newspaper, phone calls, the internet, a number of local attractions, summer events, day camps, etc., in your area that they can share with their classmates to give them ideas on things they might be able to do this summer. They could even make up a summer vacation brochure for the students to take home.

I have quite a few websites bookmarked on back to school ideas, if you are interested in them, just send me an email. I have some of those kite ones as well.