Beginning and End of the Year Ideas

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Check list for beginning of the year

• Print out syllabuses, and any handouts for students
• Print out classroom signs
• Decorate classroom
• Classroom workflow
• Routine poster printout
• 504-IEP printout
• Gradebook Set up
• percentages
• Student guide
• canvas
• website

Past experience

Beginning of the year activities

• Classroom norms
• Emergency lessons
• Party points - 
• Teacher remains in Spanish
• Students use Spanish
• Student objectives based on knowledge
• Relationship building
• Technology lesson
• Writing lesson
• Speaking lesson
• Listening lesson

Content activities 

• Quick writes

Past experience

• Playing movies on finals vs a party
• Classroom management on finals
• Grading tricks

End of the year activities

• Farewell postcards
• Summer activity wall & world/us map
• I would like to visit... because...
• I'm going to visit... because... 

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