Hey Sweet Friends! I hope you are having a wonderful weekend celebrating Memorial Day! Just wanted to share a few writing printables with y'all that I use at the end of the year with my *almost* second graders!!
We have a school wide "Step Up Day" during the last week of school. The kids LOVE visiting the second grade teachers and learning what it is like to be a second grader!! While they are off feeling pretty dang special, I am with a class of the cutest kinders telling them all about first grade!!
We have a school wide "Step Up Day" during the last week of school. The kids LOVE visiting the second grade teachers and learning what it is like to be a second grader!! While they are off feeling pretty dang special, I am with a class of the cutest kinders telling them all about first grade!!
My students always fill out a "First Grade Facts" sheet to give to a kindergarten student. You would think I gave those babies gold! Kinders get it...it's the simple things in life that are the BEST!!!
When my sweeties come back from the other end of the school feeling all grown up & over first grade, we enjoy a few writing activities that center around what they learned from "stepping up" !!
and one where they predict what will happen in second grade!
We also write notes to ourselves to save for the first day of school. Before doing this, we reflect on the first day of first grade & predict how it might be alike or different than second grade...Do I hear a Venn Diagram calling my name?? Why yes I do?!?!
After our discussion, we all write letters to ourselves to open up the morning of the first day of school {including myself- No, mine doesn't start with "Dear Jesus,"...HA!}. The letter template below can really be used for anything though. After they are done writing, they stick and seal their letter in an envelope to read the morning before their first day to ease the jitters.
And I thought I would also throw in this summer goals writing printable. We work at setting goals all throughout the year & this is just a motivator to get the kids thinking about what they want to accomplish this summer.
You can download these printables *here*{Graphics courtesy of Scrappin' Doodles & KPM Doodles}! I hope they're helpful as you are surviving the last week or weeks of school!! If you don't have a school wide Step Up Day, I recommend checking with your 2nd grade friends to see if you could schedule in a time to do one on your own the last week of school!! You'll have a blast!!!
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Happy Memorial Day!!! GOD BLESS all the courageous men & women that have served or are serving our country! I honor you.
