This year was my second year teaching second grade, and the end of the year is always a time of mixed feelings and craziness. Hence forth, why I’m finally blogging and it’s July! Oh well! This year was even more mixed, as I am moving to new district and a new grade. Say hello to a new 5th grade ELA teacher! Keep reading in the next month to learn about the transition of cleaning out my room (it’s all in my parents’ basement right now…thanks Mom and Dad!), moving into a new room, and my scholastic shopping adventure for books other than Magic TreeHouse and Arthur. I’m so excited, but I wanted to share some of our end of the year activities I did with second grade.

Here’s what I gave my students at the end of this year.

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Here are some other end of the year activities and field day activities that we did too.

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TPT 3– Field Day

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There are a ton of end of the year fun activities and packets online, and my kiddos love them!

So, as you saw SSR in the title. It’s not Sustained Silent Reading, although we should all be doing plenty of that this summer! I’m talking about summertime stress relief! Here’s a picture to help take some stress away from my camping trip this week to Pictured Rocks in Munising, MI. I also always put a fake bonfire on a ChromeCast and light a bonfire smell candle. If you have never done this while working, you need to! Or put a river or aquarium or nature up! It’s one way I’ve learned to de-stress this crazy year. Also, massages. Just massages. And lots of them.

Thanks for reading as always,

Emily