End of School Fun

June 14, 2014

Yesterday was the last day of school! This school year went by so fast I could hardly believe it! I heard another teacher in the hall yesterday afternoon, going on to another colleague about how it was the longest year of their life, and I had to pop my head into the hallway and shout, “I disagree!” It always seems like the end of the year creeps up so fast after April vacation and I’m always trying to fit content from lessons I know I won’t get to into shorter versions of those lessons.  At the same time, I’m trying to make the final days of school as fun and memorable for the kids as I possibly can.  It helps that our final unit has to do with role-playing and discussing adaptations.  The students really enjoy the movie version of Charlotte’s Web.  I show them the cartoon (see below), because I’ve always been drawn to “originals”.  It’s always fun when a student comments, “Miss Luginbuhl—you made your voice sound just like the voice of the character in the movie!” That leads us back to inferring feelings, overall moods, and character traits, which also helps students write in their Reader’s Notebooks about overall similarities they noticed between the characters in the book and in the movie.