Bring on the Sunshine!!!!

I absolutely love summer. It is my favorite season!!!! As the sun is beginning to shine gloriously in the sky, my students are getting increasingly energetic. Thankfully, I am almost done teaching most of the core subjects and we are now focusing on more exciting projects. I cannot believe how creative my students are. They truly make me proud. If you have not already seen my post from yesterday, you are missing out on some the awesome things that my little creative genius' have accomplished. I will continue to add to that post as my students are still in the midst of working on their creations

Over the past few weeks, I have been wracking my mind to try and figure out how to keep my students excited about the last month of school in June. I finally came up with a few ideas.

1. I plan to use some drawing and coloring activities to maintain my students artistic side:

2. I want to introduce or re-introduce some summer words to my students:



3. We definitely need to have some fun in the sun with brain breaks.

4. We will also be working on some of our literacy skills in a more creative manner.

5. To recap, please see the following as it encompasses everything that I mentioned above:

Whether you use any of these or not, enjoy the these last few weeks with your children and students because they go by so quickly. I hope you have an awesome last month of school.

If you are homeschooling, I hope you fall in love with these packages like I have.

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I absolutely love teaching and I do my best to teach my students how to think beyond the curriculum as I find that while it is a great starting point, it can be rather limiting. Children have so much of energy and joy. As educators, we need to foster a sense of wonder in everything that we do to engage them. It's with this spirit that I have asked my students to take their learning a step further and to show me what they could do.  See the pictures below to see what two of my awesome students have worked on so far.

One of my students grew her own sunflower plant.

Another student decided to create / build her own plant:


I chose to assess them on thoughtfulness, creativity, writing and presentation skills. My students were so excited to be given the autonomy to be themselves and to purse a topic of interest. They had many discussions with me and their parents about what they wanted to pursue, why it was of interest to them and how they were going to go about developing their ideas.

Some of my students are still working on their projects. These two students completed theirs in record time and could hardly wait to present their work to their peers. .