Celebrate: Changing the Last Day of School

It's early Saturday morning, and I wanted to post a few small celebrations from the week. Thanks to Ruth Ayres for her weekly link-up, Celebrate This Week. Check out all the blogs that are linked up HERE.

Monday was our last day of school.  Our principal asked all the classes to not show a movie the last day of school and gave us plenty of time to consider a new option. She encouraged us to choose an activity that would support community and conversations.  I have to admit I always showed Akeelah and the Bee the last day of school and loved that activity because it has so many great lessons that we always discussed, but I had to change my plans.  

We would end the year the way we started the year.  With our famous Room 228 quote: "We are ____ ." Students could choose to fill in the blank with the following: historians, scientists, readers, writers, word smiths, and mathematicians. After brainstorming and filling up our entire dry erase board with favorite activities students broke into smaller groups to work on their anchor posters which I will use next year for the first few weeks of school as a preview. 

Creating "We are scientists" 

Finally this celebration which will be placed in my special memory box of my favorite moments of teaching.