1. Less Structured Days
Curriculum is finishing up. Students are getting excited for summer. Instead of whole group activities all day, incorporate some of the following:
- Centers
- Partner Work
- Choice Boards
You can keep your sanity by conserving energy and not be the one leading all day long.
2. Turn Learning Activities into Games
This will help to keep your students engaged when engagement seems to be a unattainable.
- Blooket (a favorite of my class) or Kahoot
- Whiteboard races: (two groups line up and a question is given. The front person in each line races to be the first to write the answer. Or Use individual whiteboards and see you can be first to raise the right answer up.)
- Trashketball: Students have to answer questions correctly to try to shoot a basket for their teams. You can use a ball of paper and a trashcan to keep it super simple.
- Scoot: Place task cards on each desk. Students move from desk to desk with a recording sheet and answer questions.
3. Review Without Worksheets
Keep students reviewing important skills for upcoming tests. Instead of using the regular worksheets, try some of these:
- Task Cards
- Scavenger Hunts
- Escape Rooms
- Around-the-Room Review
By adding movement, you are subtracting behavior problems.
4. Project-Based "Fun" Learning
Let students create instead of sit. The sky is really the limit, but here's some ideas to get you started:
- "Create a Business" Project
- Biography Posters
- Stem Challenges
- End of Year Memory Books
These will help keep learning meaningful but low stress.
5. Teach Life Skills (They WILL LOVE this)
These are no prep, but high in value.
- How to Debate
- Teamwork Challenges
- Goal Setting for Next Year
- Kindness/Leadership Activities
There you have it! Keep your sanity and still keep the learning going until the last day. If you are looking for some resources to make some of these type of activities a reality, click the pictures below.
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