We did something new this year for our last week of school. I had my kids start writing their own little books a few weeks ago and realized they did a great job and were super creative! So we added the books to the classroom library, and they could read each other's books any time they wanted.
Then the school had a book fair, and it gave me the idea to let my kids do a book fair in the classroom so they could take home each other's books at the end of the year. This wouldn't have worked in other classes I've had in the past due to so many struggling writers, but for this class, it really motivated them!
It took some thinking about how to pull it off, and I'll have to say it went well. I also like to do a puzzle day at the end of the year, so we did that, too, while they chose books for the book fair.
Here are some pics of their "author tables". I would have liked to add time for autographs, but they ended up a bit too wild and crazy by the end. I guess it's inevitable on the second to last day of school, especially when they had a swimming lesson in the morning.
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