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258. Can't Miss Classic: 10 End-of-Year Celebration Ideas Your Students Will Love · Teacher Approved: Elementary Teacher Tips & Strategies

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  Heidi: This is episode 258 of Teacher Approved.
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  Emily: Hey there. Thanks for joining us today. As we move
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  further into May, it's starting to feel real. The end of the
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  school year is right around the corner, and so that's why we are
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  bringing back one of our favorite episodes, all about end
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  of Year celebrations.
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  Heidi: This isn't just about filling time or throwing a
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  party. It's about helping your class feel closure and ending
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  the year on purpose instead of just sliding into summer. This
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  episode will give you practical ideas and a clear way to think
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  about celebrations so they work for you and your students.
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  Emily: And what's extra fun is that these ideas come from you,
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  our listeners. So whether you're planning something big, keeping
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  it simple, or still not sure what your end of year will look
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  like, this is a great place to start.
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  Heidi: Let's get into it.
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  You're listening to Teacher Approved, the podcast helping
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  educators elevate what matters and simplify the rest. I'm
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  Heidi.
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  Emily: And I'm Emily. We're the creators behind Second Story
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  Window, where we give research-based and teacher
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  approved strategies that make teaching less stressful and more
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  effective. You can check out the show notes and resources from
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  each episode at secondstorywindow.net.
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  Heidi: We're so glad you're tuning in today. Let's get to
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  the show.
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  Emily: Let's talk about this week's resource of the week, our
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  summer review packets. Over the years, we have often been asked
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  which grade level of our spiral review morning work would work
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  best for students to practice with during the summer. So we
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  decided it was time to make a dedicated summer review packet.
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  Heidi: Unlike a lot of other summer review packets you may
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  see around the internet that contain a bunch of different
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  types of worksheets, ours is a carefully designed review that
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  packs in as much practice as possible on each page. The
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  questions follow a pattern, so students will be familiar with
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  the weekly activities quickly.
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  Emily: Each grade level has the same format as the morning work
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  for that grade level, so it's the perfect practice for your
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  students if they've already been doing the morning work with you.
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  But it's also designed to work as a standalone resource for
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  students who have never done any of our morning work.
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  Heidi: Each packet contains 50 pages of math and ELA spiral
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  review, which is 10 weeks worth of content. And of course, we
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  include an answer key as well.
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  Emily: While these pages are perfect for a summer review,
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  they also make a wonderful end of your cumulative review in
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  class. You can find our summer packets at
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  secondstorywindow.net/summerpackets, and the link will be in our show
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  notes.
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  Heidi: I don't know if you guys have noticed, but here in the
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  US, the end of the school year is almost upon us.
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  Emily: Well, unless you teach year round.
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  Heidi: Year round teachers, you have our condolences.
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  Emily: So that brings us to the topic of, how do you end a
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  school year?
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  Heidi: We put so much, so much thought and energy into starting
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  the school year, but I think we are all running on fumes by the
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  end. There is just not much time or energy left to close out the
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  year. You maybe have noticed this, but we still want it to
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  matter.
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  Emily: I think if 2020, taught us anything, it's that ending,
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  well, matters. That abrupt ending we had that year just
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  really stung.
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  Heidi: And it still stings, if I'm being honest.
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  Emily: That was rough for us.
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  Heidi: Our little preschoolers went home one day and just never
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  came back.
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  Emily: Yeah.
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  Heidi: So how do we celebrate in a tangible way the moment that
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  is the end of the school year?
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  Emily: Well, there's no right or wrong answer. It's just about
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  choosing something that feels meaningful to you.
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  Heidi: Right. So I'd start by asking myself how to acknowledge
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  the community that has grown in my classroom during the year,
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  and then I would look for ways to celebrate those small humans
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  that have just come to take up so much of my heart. And I don't
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  mean that does sound serious or solemn, even if the end of the
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  year can feel heavy, or not, depending on the year you've
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  had. But I think a lot of times the most tangible way to
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  celebrate a shared experience is to have fun together.
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  Emily: Right. So with that in mind, we asked the Teacher
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  Approved community to share the ways they celebrate the end of
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  the year, and they offered such engaging suggestions that we
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  want to pass them on to you.
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  Heidi: So one activity that was mentioned several times was
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  doing an alphabet countdown. If you aren't familiar with this,
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  each day during the last few weeks of school, you do a fun
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  activity from A to Z. Lisa shared these suggestions. A is
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  an all about me sheet that they can share with the class. B is
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  sit by a buddy day, I is for ice pops from the teacher. Her
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  countdown lasts for 23 days because she combined some days.
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  Emily: Those are such fun ideas, and I love that she keeps it
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  simple. She could have done Baking Beautiful Banana Bread
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  day for B. That's a ton of commitment to stretch out over
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  20 plus days.
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  Heidi: Yeah, you're gonna burn out real quick if you feel like
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  you have to make something a big production in order for it to be
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  a celebration. And please note that that comment was directed
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  largely my own go-big-or-go-home tendencies, but Lisa was smart
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  to choose something like sitting by a buddy as a celebration.
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  It's low effort from the teacher side, but it would be so fun and
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  memorable for the students.
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  Emily: Yeah, I love that. I would love to know what other
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  suggestions teachers have for their alphabet countdowns,
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  especially for those trickier letters. If you've got a good
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  idea for Q or any other letter, will you come share it in the
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  Teacher Approved Facebook group?
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  Heidi: Yeah, I'm really curious to hear other suggestions.
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  Emily: But if you don't want to commit to a 26 day countdown,
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  Dawn has this suggestion. We do a balloon pop the last 10 days,
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  with each balloon containing a card with a special activity,
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  like outdoor chalk day or yoga time.
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  Heidi: Yoga! There we go. There's our Y. And I think the
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  balloon popping would be a definite hit with the kids.
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  Emily: Maggie suggested a quieter type of countdown. She
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  says, my class made a paper chain. Each child got one to two
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  strips of paper, enough to make as many links as we needed for
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  the number of days left. On their own slip of paper, they
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  wrote something they have been grateful for at school this
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  year. Each morning, we take one off, and the student who wrote
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  it gets to read it to the class and then hang it on our grateful
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  wall.
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  Heidi: I love how thoughtful and reflective that is. It's such a
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  beautiful way to add meaning to your celebratory countdowns.
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  Emily: Besides countdowns, we had several recommendations for
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  end of year theme days.
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  Heidi: Lacey says we have theme days for the last eight days. We
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  start with color day, sport, Safari, Hawaiian and tie dye.
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  Emily: And Jamie recommends Camp Skeeter, and she typed that all
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  in caps, so you know she really loves it. She says they do gummy
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  worm math, catching insects, scavenger hunts, letters from
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  camp, flag raising, morning exercises, chairs put away,
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  desks organized as cabins, cabin competitions, care packages sent
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  from home. I'm not done, there's more. A campfire in the center
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  of the classroom, hiking. Bathroom is referred to as the
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  latrine. Lunchroom is the mess hall. The list goes on and on. I
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  have students from years ago now, adults who still talk about
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  how much they loved camp Skeeter.
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  Heidi: That sounds like so much fun. I can understand why
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  Jamie's students remember that. And Emily and I love theme days.
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  Emily: Especially camping. That's the best one.
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  Heidi: Theme are just a great way to keep students engaged at
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  the end of the year.
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  Emily: As we've mentioned before, student engagement
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  depends on that balance between routine and novelty. At the end
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  of the year, routine is tipping way into the boredom side of the
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  balance.
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  Heidi: So adding surprise, whether that is through a theme
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  day or other activity, it helps keep things from getting out of
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  control.
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  Emily: And a theme day is a great way to add to the surprise
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  and delight that help regular activities feel like novelties,
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  which is like, the secret key to doing a theme day, is that it
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  doesn't actually have to be that, like, exciting, but when
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  you make it themed, suddenly your normal activities seem
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  spectacular.
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  Heidi: Yeah, anything themed feels fun and novel, and that is
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  always going to feel like a celebration, especially at the
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  end of the year.
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  Emily: Yeah. We also like theme days because they take some of
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  the pressure off the teacher. In episode seven of our podcast, we
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  said that theme days are a little moment of peace dropped
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  from the teacher saints above.
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  Heidi: And I still stand by that. Theme days are nice
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  because you can plan and prep them in advance, and the kids
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  are so engaged that a lot of the management hassles that come at
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  the end of the year just kind of vanish for a while. In my mind,
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  theme days are always kind of paired with the feeling of a big
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  exhale. They just give you a moment to get your feet under
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  you again.
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  Emily: Plus, if you give the kids enough independent
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  activities during your theme day, you have time to work on
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  your independent activities like finishing grading or updating
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  cumulative files.
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  Heidi: That's way less fun than what the kids are doing. But
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  like Emily mentioned, episode seven of our podcast is all
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  about theme days. We walk you through the seven steps of
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  planning a successful theme day and share our tips and tricks.
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  So definitely revisit that one. We also have two
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  already-done-for-you theme day resources in our shop.
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  Emily: We call them delight days, D, L, I, T, E, which
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  stands for, obviously, Differentiated Learning and
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  Integrated Theme Experience.
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  Heidi: We can't help ourselves around an acronym.
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  Emily: Even if no one else appreciates them.
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  Heidi: Everyone needs a hobby.
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  Emily: Each theme set for first through third grade includes a
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  differentiated packet brain breaks, themed writing activity,
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  task cards, differentiated whole class review activity, a themed
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  closed reading passage and more. We have a space theme and a
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  camping theme for only $5 each, and we'll link to those in the
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  show notes.
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  Heidi: We call our camping day Camp Learn A Lot instead of Camp
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  Skeeter, but you could still apply a lot of Jamie's camp day
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  suggestions.
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  Emily: Chantal's class has a fort day. She has the kids bring
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  cardboard boxes and blankets and then uses those on the students
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  desks to create awesome forts and read with flashlights.
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  Heidi: I have never heard that before, but that sounds like so
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  much fun. I bet that's something the kids will remember forever.
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  Emily: Yeah. Besides camp day and fort day, Melissa recommends
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  a glow day, but if you don't want to commit to a whole glow
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  day, you could still have a lot of fun with just a glow party.
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  Heidi: Yes, Cindy says get donations from families, block
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  windows with black paper, let kids tape the glow sticks on
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  their clothes, turn off the lights and turn on the music
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  when everyone is ready.
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  Emily: That would definitely be kid heaven. Another fun idea is
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  board game day. Mindy says she has her kids bring games from
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  home with the stipulation that there are no electronic games.
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  The kids must switch to different games after they
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  finish each one, and the only rule is the child who brings the
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  game must know how to play it and be able to teach it to
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  others. If they bring chess, all players must know how to play
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  already.
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  Heidi: Those are the tips of a woman who has survived a game
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  day or two.
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  Emily: Yep. And one of my kids had a game day recently, and
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  that was the rule. You can't bring a game once you know the
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  rules to play it.
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  Heidi: Yeah, you got to think ahead to keep these fun
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  celebrations from tipping into overwhelm. But it is worth it to
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  see the kids so delighted.
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  Emily: And it is just fun to end the year with all these fun,
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  happy memories. Another party idea comes from Sam, who
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  celebrates everybody's birthdays at once with a big party for
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  everyone.
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  Heidi: I haven't done a big birthday party before, but if my
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  birthday fell on a school day, I usually did a big un-birthday
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  party for the class, and so we would celebrate my actual
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  birthday and their un birthdays together. But I can see how it
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  would be a really fun end of the year activity to do a whole
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  birthday party with everyone.
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  Emily: Yeah, I did it on my birthday too, because sometimes
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  Heidi: So we are about to the end of our celebration ideas,
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  mine would be right at the beginning of the school year,
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  that's when my birthday is, but I really like it for an end of
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  the year celebration. And that really keeps birthday
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  disruptions to a minimum during the rest of the year, if you
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  just do it all on one day and go all out.
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  but I wanted to make sure and share this idea from Cindy. She
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  says, Something I did earlier this year was a drive in movie.
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  I had my lunch lady save big, sturdy boxes for me. I gave
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  students time to work on their cars, then served them popcorn
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  and a juice box and loaded a few Pixar shorts on a YouTube
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  playlist. In all, the movie time was about the last 15 minutes of
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  the day. We had already packed up and then students took their
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  cars home that day. Just FYI, one bus driver would not allow
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  the big boxes, so I had to contact families to come pick
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  them up.
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  Emily: Oh boy. Maybe just recycle the cars when you're
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  done. If you can find a way to store the boxes like Cindy did,
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  that would be such a fun activity. I'm sure the kids had
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  a blast making their cars and then the fun of watching a
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  movie. I wonder if she had to explain what a drive in movie
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  is.
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  Heidi: Oh, I'm sure she did. I don't think there are too many
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  of them left.
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  Emily: No, that makes me sad.
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  Heidi: Thank you for sharing that, Cindy, and thanks for the
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  heads up about the bus. There are always so many layers of
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  things to think through when you are a teacher.
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  Emily: And that's why we are so appreciative of all the teachers
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  that have shared their ideas. We've got a hard job, and it's
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  so helpful when someone else points out the potholes you
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  might not be aware of yet. So a huge thank you to everyone who
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  shared their tips with us for this week's episode.
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  Heidi: Teachers do a great job of looking out for each other,
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  especially at the end of the year, when we are all just
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  limping toward that finish line.
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  Emily: As you work on your end of year plans, we hope we've
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  shared some ways to make it a real celebration.
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  Heidi: Remember that a celebration doesn't have to be
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  big to be meaningful. It can absolutely just be about filling
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  time before the end of the school year in a way that
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  doesn't have everyone pulling their hair out.
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  Emily: Yep, those kids have to do something for six hours, and
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  learning about coordinate geometry is probably not the
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  solution to that problem two weeks before the last day of
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  school.
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  Heidi: But however you choose to mark the end of the year, we
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  hope you find a way to do it that is meaningful to you. Look
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  for tangible ways you can honor the magic of what has happened
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  the past nine months in your classroom, acknowledge the
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  upcoming transition and celebrate the bonds of your
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  classroom community.
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  Emily: We'd love to hear your thoughts on how to add
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  celebration to the end of the school year. Please come join
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  the conversation in our Teacher Approved Facebook group.
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  Now let's talk about this week's Teacher Approved tip. Each week
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  we leave you with a small, actionable tip that you can
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  apply in your classroom today. This week's teacher approved tip
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  is make a display reflecting on this year and anticipating the
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  year to come.
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  Heidi: So one way that I celebrated the end of the year
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  as a second grade teacher was having the kids reflect on what
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  we had done as a class. I started with a discussion about
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  everything we had done during the year, and I listed the kids
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  memories on the board. I kept going until we had a pretty long
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  list, and then I drew names and let each student pick a memory.
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  I didn't want anyone to get stuck with a lame memory, like
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  the day the cafeteria ran out of tacos or something like that. So
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  I made sure that our list of memories was longer than we
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  actually needed, and that meant coming up with like 30 or so
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  memories, which took some thinking, but we got there.
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  Then once the kids had their assigned memory, their job was
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  to illustrate it and then maybe write a sentence about it. At
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  the very least, they needed to title it so I knew what the
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  picture was. Sometimes, you know how kids drawings are, a little
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  abstract. And then I arranged them in chronological order and
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  hung them in the hall as a timeline. Because I knew where I
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  was going to display this, I measured the wall ahead of time
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  and then cut down paper so that they would fit in a row on that
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  wall, and then I added the title, Looking Back at Second
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  Grade.
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  But then I left it up all summer, and before school
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  started in the fall, I just changed out the title to Looking
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  Ahead to Second Grade. This meant that I had something
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  outside my room for back to school all ready to go, and it
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  gave my new batch of second graders an idea of what they
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  could look forward to. And that was fine, and it was so handy to
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  have it done already. But the reason I really loved this was
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  that it meant so much to my former students to see that they
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  still had a place in the story of my class. They would often
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  stop by and talk about what memories were jogged by seeing
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  our pictures.
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  Emily: Which is probably especially important at the
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  beginning of the school year, when they're in a new class that
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  they don't feel as comfortable yet, to walk down the hall and
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  see those happy memories is just a happiness boost for everyone.
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  If you want to do something like this, you don't have to display
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  it in the hallway, if that doesn't work for you, and you
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  don't have to put it in a chronological row. The idea is
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  that it's just nice to do something now that will benefit
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  you when life is crazy at back to school time.
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  Heidi: I found that the key to making this successful, as I
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  learned the hard way, was to consider what has to happen in
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  your class during the summer. Because I was taping papers on a
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  brick, they just were no match for the humidity of the swamp
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  cooler and the industrial fans that were blowing on the newly
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  cleaned carpets. If the point of doing this is to reduce your
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  workload, you don't want to have to keep taping things up. So
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  learn from my mistakes and find a way to make it sturdy enough
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  to survive three months.
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  Emily: I wonder if you could put out a big piece of butcher paper
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  and tape everything to the butcher paper, and then you
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  could take it down easily and put it back up easily.
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  Heidi: Oh, handy dandy. You could probably even glue it on
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  the butcher paper and then be even more solid.
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  Emily: Yeah. Or you could cover it with butcher paper, like
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  somebody had suggested to us recently about covering up your
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  bulletin boards at the end of the year. For next year, you
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  cover them with butcher paper. But I still think the things
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  inside the butcher paper might fall with the humidity. So I
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  think doing it on butcher paper, you take it down, roll it up,
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  and then put it back up.
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  Heidi: Or someplace where you could use push pins. We are
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  going to problem solve this for y'all.
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  Emily: Yes, I do think it's such a fun idea, though, and if you
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  do this, we would love to hear about it.
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  Heidi: Yeah, or send pictures. Please send pictures.
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  Emily: Yes.
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  Heidi: To wrap up the show, we are sharing what we're giving
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  extra credit to this week. Emily, what are you giving extra
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  Emily: I'm giving extra credit to the book Yours Truly by Abby
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  credit to?
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  Jimenez. I gave extra credit last year to another one of her
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  books, Part of Your World, and this is actually the second book
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  in that series, but that just means there are some of the same
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  characters in both books. They're definitely standalone
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  stories that you can read in any order. In Yours Truly, you get a
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  little bit of everything. There's enemies to lovers, fake
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  dating, epistolary romance, though, I don't know if I'd go
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  as far as calling it that, when they only exchange letters for
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  like, a small portion of the book. But I keep hearing this
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  book described as that, so I threw that in too.
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  Somehow it all comes together well. I don't know how, but she
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  nailed it. I listened to the audiobook, which was fun because
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  there are dual narrators, which I love, and the male narrator is
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  my favorite male audiobook narrator ever, Zach Weber. If
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  you like Emily Henry, I think you'll enjoy this book. It's not
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  a flawless book. There are some things about it I would change,
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  but overall, excellent read that I just zipped through. And I
• 19:30
  know everybody loves Emily Henry right now, and I do too, but I
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  think Abby Jimenez might be my most favorite author in the
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  adult romance genre right now.
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  Heidi: Well, I will have to check that out. I'm way behind.
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  It's been on my to be read for a long time. So
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  Emily: Come on.
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  Heidi: Gotta catch up.
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  Emily: What is your extra credit going to?
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  Heidi: I'm giving extra credit to a book too. It is Jane and
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  Edward by Melody Edwards. Not confusing at all to have those
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  double Edwards there, but we'll figure it out. So Jane Eyre is
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  my favorite book, and I'm such a sucker for any Jane adaptation.
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  And this happens to be a modern retelling, where Jane is a legal
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  secretary and Edward is a high powered attorney, of course, but
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  Melody, I think she did a really good job translating the story
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  into a more modern setting without just a cookie cutter
• 20:20
  copy and paste of events. She's faithful to the original while
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  still adding really clever updates. But even if you have
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  never read Jane Eyre, I think you would still enjoy the story
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  as a modern romance, if that's your jam. If it's not, I can't
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  help you. The author also did a really great job at updating the
• 20:39
  more problematic parts of that storyline.
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  Emily: What? In Jane Eyre?
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  Heidi: I know! I really enjoyed it and, but I think I would
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  maybe have liked it even more if the author had kept the story in
• 20:52
  the first person, the way that Jane Eyre is written. I think it
• 20:55
  would have really boosted the emotional impact of the story,
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  but that's just a minor quibble in an otherwise very
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  entertaining read.
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  Emily: Now the real question is, while you were reading, did you
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  picture Edward as Michael Fassbender?
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  Heidi: Yes, I did.
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  Emily: Okay, okay, then I will definitely read this book and
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  picture that as well.
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  Heidi: I even looked up pictures of him to make sure I had it
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  right.
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  Emily: That's dedication.
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  Heidi: That is it for today's episode. Try out some of these
• 21:24
  teacher approved ideas for celebrating the end of the
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  school year with your class, and remember our teacher approved
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  tip to make a visual display of your year together with your
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  students.
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  Emily: Do you know a teacher friend who may enjoy this
• 21:37
  episode? Sharing with a friend is the number one way you can
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  help us reach new listeners, and we appreciate it so much.
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  Heidi: We hope you enjoyed this episode of Teacher Approved. I'm
• 21:48
  Heidi.
• 21:49
  Emily: And I'm Emily. Thank you for listening. Be sure to follow
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  Heidi: You can connect with us and other teachers in the
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  Teacher Approved Facebook group. We'll see you here next week.
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  Bye for now.
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  Emily: Bye.