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Hi Joann
By dori

How about pulling out all those favorite literature activities that you used to do.

We used to read Where the Wild things are and act it out. I used to read Ant City and have the students work in cooperative groups and
draw big ant hills on poster paper. We used to read Frog and Toad and have them make paper bag puppets and act out for each other.
Go outside and paint with watercolors on the sidewalk. Let them use sidewalk chalk and create artwork like in Mary Poppins. Have them imagine jumping into their artwork and write a story to go with it.
Do some fun AIMES math activities. The one with

the chocolate eskimo pies or ice cream bars. Or see if you can determine "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll" I bet no one will make it! Great practice with Tally marks. Make trail mix or dirt pie!

Do some community service for the school and do some clean up around the yard, weeding or collecting trash or planting some fresh flowers.

Trace each of their bodies on butcher paper and brainstorm a list of all the fun things you learned this year and have them write them inside the body and decorate themselves. Then they will have a big image of them to take home full of the fun things they remember from first grade.

Tke them out for a special classroom recess with popsicles. Make them feel like they are a team that has just crossed the finish line. The end of the year has so much to do - but it can be magical as well.

Just some ideas.

Anyone else?