An end of the year memory book is a MUST for every classroom. Students love to have something they can take home, tuck in a bookshelf and take out again and again to remember their school year, the friends and their favorite activities. It’s even BETTER if they had a fun time MAKING this memory book!
The end of the year has a magical quality about it. The cloud of testing has disappeared, summer is licking at our heels and colorful bulletin boards are taken down and stored neatly for next year’s kiddos.
Between the Calypso band performing on the lawn at 10:30 and the awards assembly at 1:00, there are always a lot of small time chunks to fill in, and it’s important to make them meaningful and engaging.
I created this end of the year memory book to go above and beyond the others that I saw online. This memory book is engaging to higher level thinkers, but differentiated for all. With this creative project, you can make your end of the year memory book a fun activity that is no prep, differentiated and easy to plan (there’s an optional fun end of the year math project too)!
Why you NEED Creative Thinking up to the final bell
Do you know that sense of exhilaration when you pick up a new sketchbook and freshly sharpened pencils? Maybe for you, it’s a skein of gorgeous yarn, just waiting to be made into next year’s scarf. We want our students to experience that joy of possibility too!
Creative thinking is so important in today’s classrooms. It fosters so many of the learning characteristics that are important to developing those life long learning traits that we seek to develop. The benefits to creative thinking are many and they include (but aren’t limited to):
- nourishing a growth mindset
- encouraging flexible thinking in all areas
- stress relief
- helps develop a sense of self
- lets "out of the box" thinkers shine
Why this End of the year memory book is different
With this memory book, students will design a festival around their school year! Students will think in terms of planning a carnival for the entire school to enjoy, making them think outside of the box! The carnival will have:
Fill your end of the year memory book with Thrilling Rides!
Plan kiddie rides based on what was easy, roller coasters based on personal challenges and how you overcame the challenges, and stunts listing memorable events!
Introduce Blockbuster Movies in your end of the school year memory book!
Give away an all-expenses-paid trip to your FAVORITE field trip destination! What MUST they see? What are some of the activities they can do there? Then, create a movie poster for a SMASH hit about your FAVORITE day! Critics are RAVING!
End of the year memories: Food, Prizes & GAMES!
Your End of the Year Carnival MUST have food (based on your lunch favorites!), Games (What do you play in class? Recess?) and PRIZES! Think about all the yummy treats and irresistible treasures that you want others to have!
This is just a small taste of what you will find in this engaging School Year Memory Book for 3rd-5th grades. If you would like to make this experience even MORE immersive, add a fun end of the year math project! The companion math project uses area, perimeter, map skills, multiplication and more to physically design this end of the year memory book carnival into a 2D map.
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