Less than $5 8th Grade End of Year Activities (by date, oldest first)

Integrated research and project based learning for Middle and High School

Your students will love forming a question and seeing where it takes them. This is SUPER FUN LEARNING that will keep engagement high for the middle or end of the semester.

You will love that that everything is set up for you to monitor students while they research and create.

Your students/children will enjoy this end-of-the year reflection and review/new year goals and resolutions activity/project. It will help them reflect and review their challenges, accomplishments, and highlights of 2023 as well as what goals and inspirations they want to bring into 2024.

This is a printable PDF.

If your students/children enjoy this activity/project, please kindly leave a review in 24 hours after your download. I appreciate your support and feedback.

‧₊˚✧ Happy New Year ✧˚₊‧

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

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This word sleuth will provide your students/children with a fun journey through Geometry with key vocabulary words. It can be done in class, centers, or as a fun homework assignment.

Word sleuth is in PPTX format along with the answer key.

If you and your students/children, enjoy this activity, please go to your purchases and let me a review.

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Tina

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

Lesson Overview

In this lesson, students reflect on their learning for the year using a set of prompts and creating a video using Canva (free, online software). A tutorial is included for the project, along with student expectations, instructions, prompts, and a grading rubric. This is a great way to let students reflect on their learning for the year and to share memories.

It was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used equally as well in high school classes.

Materials Required:

· Computers with Internet access for each student (or pair of students)

· Software such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs

Files included:

· Teacher & Student Resources

· Video project – Instructions, expectations, prompts and grading rubric

· Canva Tutorial

Approximate Lesson Duration:

· 2-3 (50 minute) class periods

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Want your students to have a growth mindset? Looking for a good activity for them to reflect upon their strengths and weaknesses? Want to be sure your students are setting goals for next year? Look no further! This flipbook is for students to reflect at the end of the year on their accomplishments and challenges. There's a section for goal making and for students to think about what they can do to achieve their dreams. Many students end up surprised by all that they've done in one year.

A fun activity which requires students to walk around and talk to each other. There are a total of 48 pieces. A great way for students to learn about one another and remember classmates.

Provide some testing motivation for students during state testing or any exam with these retro and groovy coloring pages featuring affirmations! These pages promote social-emotional learning, helping students feel more confident and centered during high-pressure situations.

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What's Included:

• 20 coloring pages with unique backgrounds and words of affirmation to encourage students before state testing or classroom exams

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End of Year | 20 Summer Early Finishers Coloring Pages for SEL: Explore the ultimate summer-themed end-of-the-year coloring resource featuring 20 captivating pages designed for self-expression and mindfulness. Ideal for early finishers in May, June & July. Each coloring page is adorned with adorable summer quotes or phrases, adding a heartwarming touch to the creative process. Use for bulletin boards, early finishers, rewards, and more!

What's Included:

• 20 coloring pages with unique backgrounds with summer phrases

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Use this Summer-themed end-of-the-year AVID speed philosophical chairs as an icebreaker or team-building activity! This resource helps to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom and gets students excited for summer break! Students will learn what speed philosophical chairs is and they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "summer break should be longer with fewer breaks during the school year."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs Christmas-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

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AVID End of Year | Summer Early Finisher Activity Packet-With WICOR Skills: This engaging resource is great for June and July months! Use for early finishers, sub plans, or even as printable worksheets used in study hall. It combines fun activities with academic enrichment, offering a blend of end of year-themed fun and educational content. Students will enjoy exciting challenges, goal-setting exercises, planning for next year, and an inspiring reading passage accompanied by thought-provoking questions, and more!

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Directions:

1. option 1- print and hole punch, students keep the pack in the AVID section of their binders and complete when they finish tutorials or class work early
2. option 2- use for sub plans in the month of April
3. option 3- students complete pieces of the packet each Friday through the month of April

21 Pages Included in This Packet:

• A cover page
• Podcast script outline for grade level survival guide
• Costa leveled interview questions for future AVID students
• Metacognition journal over skills gained during AVID
• Reflection questions about the school year
• SAT vocabulary chart
• Summer volunteering reading passage with summery writing
• Summer volunteering questions
• Summer volunteering writing Costa questions
• Passive, assertive, aggressive worksheet
• Non-academic summer SMART goal
• Summer planner
• Finish the story prompt with writing page
• Create your own summer word search
• Summer bucket list
• AVID acrostic poem
• Maze challenge
• Zentangle
• Would you rather with writing page
• Research and design a vacation brochure
• Sudoku with answer key
• Maze with answer key

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AVID End of Year | Summer Activity - Build a Costa Sandcastle Digital Resource: This digital lesson and activity is the perfect summer-themed resource to use at the end of the school year. This is perfect for building critical thinking skills in your AVID classroom! Use it as an inquiry icebreaker activity, a supplemental lesson for Costa's Level of Thinking, an inquiry lesson, a Fun Friday activity, or even for your end-of-year party!

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Directions:

• This 20 interactive Google Slides presentation first goes over Costa's level of thinking with details and examples for all 3 levels.
• Then students will follow directions on drawing or creating their own Costa sandcastle while answering leveled questions on the way!
• After students create their sandcastles and answer the Costa questions about them, they will write their own questions based on a summer scene!

What's Included:

• Essential questions slide
• 7 Costa's Level of Thinking teach slides
• 9 direction slides with step-by-step directions on how to create a Costa sandcastle and leveled questions for students to answer about their snowmen
• 1 slide with a winter scene where students will write their own leveled questions!

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This Spanish end-of-the-year iPhone Memory activity is the perfect printable to help students wrap up and reflect on their school year! After students fill out their memories worksheet, cut out the iphones and create a bulletin board or class book. :)

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What's Included

• Spanish iPhone memory worksheet in 9 different colors including black & white
• Editable templates for each color option

Directions

• Either choose a color iPhone or let students choose a color they prefer

• Students can either draw or write to fill up their “photo album”

• Use the editable template to create your own memory choices OR to let students create their own

• Display on a hallway bulletin board to help with recruitment

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Summer | Think Fast Game | Printable Activity | Freebie: Students and even staff will love this no-prep Summer Think Fast game! Use it for after or before summer break as a brain break, morning meeting, fun Friday activity, or as a team building activity.

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What's Included

Summer Think Fast Game: 1 PDF Printable

Directions

• A timer will be set for 1 minute total.

• Each answer is one point. Most points wins!

• Examples: 3 foods that are cold, 3 summer months, 3 things that rhyme with swim...

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This end-of-the-year iPhone memory activity will help students wrap up and reflect on their school year! Great for the last few weeks of school or the last day! After students fill out their memories worksheet, cut out the iphones and create a bulletin board or class book. :)

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What's Included

• iPhone memory worksheet in 9 different colors including black & white
• Editable templates for each color option

Directions

• Either choose a color iPhone or let students choose a color they prefer

• Students can either draw or write to fill up their “photo album”

• Use the editable template to create your own memory choices OR to let students create their own

• Display on a hallway bulletin board to help with recruitment

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This end-of-the-year iPhone Memory activity will help AVID students wrap up and reflect on their school year! After students fill out their memories worksheet, cut out the iphones and create a bulletin board or class book that can be used to help recruit future AVID students. :)

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What's Included

• iPhone memory worksheet in 9 different colors including black & white
• Editable templates for each color option

Directions

• Either choose a color iPhone or let students choose a color they prefer

• Students can either draw or write to fill up their “photo album”

• Use the editable template to create your own memory choices OR to let students create their own

• Display on a hallway bulletin board to help with recruitment

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AVID End of The Year Writing Craft Activity- Memories Flower for Bulletin Board: Allow students to reflect on their AVID memories with this adorable flower craft and writing activity! Perfect for use as a recruitment tool by displaying in the hallway for future AVID students to see. :)

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What's Included

• 9 different colored flowers (including black & white) with memory sentence stems
• 9 different colored blank flowers (including black and white) where students can write their favorite memories or things they learned in AVID
• Editable templates to make your own sentence stems in Google slides

5 Stems Included

AVID has helped me grow this school year by...

My favorite team-building activity was...

What I will remember most about AVID this school year...

This school year, tutorials helped me with...

My favorite field trip memory is...

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AVID iphone Memories Photo Album

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Font Credit

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ELA End of The Year Writing Craft Activity- Memories Flower for Bulletin Board: Allow students to reflect on their school year with this adorable flower craft and writing activity! Perfect for displaying on a bulletin board! :)

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What's Included

• 9 different colored flowers (including black & white) with memory sentence stems
• 9 different colored blank flowers (including black and white) where students can write their favorite memories or things they learned this school year
• Editable templates to make your own sentence stems in Google slides

5 Stems Included

I have grown the most this school year in...

A goal I reached this school year was...

My favorite memory this school year was...

A goal I have for next school year is...

Something new I tried this school year was...

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Spanish End of The Year Writing Craft Activity- Memories Flower for Bulletin Board: Allow students to reflect on their school year with this adorable flower craft and writing activity! Perfect for displaying on a bulletin board! :)

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What's Included

• 9 different colored flowers (including black & white) with memory sentence stems
• 9 different colored blank flowers (including black and white) where students can write their favorite memories or things they learned this school year
• Editable templates to make your own sentence stems in Google slides

5 Stems Included

He crecido más este año escolar en..

Una meta que alcancé este año escolar fue...

Mi recuerdo favorito de este año escolar fue...

Una meta que tengo para el próximo año escolar es...

Algo nuevo que probé este año escolar fue...

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Provide some testing motivation for students during state testing or any exam with these retro and groovy coloring bookmarks featuring affirmations! These pages promote social-emotional learning, helping students feel more confident and centered during high-pressure situations.

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What's Included:

• 20 bookmarks for coloring with unique backgrounds and words of affirmation to encourage students before state testing or classroom exams

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These no prep narrative end of the year / summer themed finish the story writing prompts are more than magical! Use for morning meeting, daily / journal writing, as an icebreaker, team building activity, literacy centers or even for writer's workshop. They are sure to bring writing to life and help students celebrate the end of the school year and incoming summer months!

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What's included:

• 15 finish the story summer themed narrative writing prompts for 5th-8th graders
• 1 editable template to make your own prompts
• 1 directions slide
• 1 editable directions slide template

Directions:

• Print and laminate OR project on the screen.
• Allow students to choose a prompt OR have one picked for each day.
• Once students respond to the prompt they can practice public speaking skills by presenting their stories to the class or to small groups.

Finish the Story Example Slide:

Another day, another sweaty walk on the beach. I'm spending my summer collecting and selling people's trash so I can save up to get out of this town. I love the beach but I want to see more of the world. While in thought, I noticed a bottle floating to the shore. It looked like there was a tall rolled-up

piece of paper inside...

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