So you're a teacher? Now What?

As the year winds down, and testing wraps up.  Now what?    Students are tired, teachers are tired.  Sometimes behaviors explodes and students have literally checked out.  They figure we have taken the state test,  schools over.  Yet you have anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months left.   So Now What?

How about Book Clubs.  A great way to wrap up the school year.   Book Clubs allow students to collaborate and be interactive.  Their are so many things that you can do with book clubs, and their are so many ways to form students.

Did you know that book clubs don't have to be just  chapter books.  How about starting off with picture books.

Some of my favorite books to use for book clubs:

Baseball Saved Us
Rosa Parks
Anne Frank
Pink and Say
Ruby Bridges.

IF you are looking for additional resources and like some of these titles I have additional response activities that you can use with them.

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If your not sure about book clubs,  how about creating a bingo board of activities for student to choose from to apply to their books, whether they are book club books or independent books.  My goal is to keep their hands moving and them actively engaged.  No down time!  Students love making and creating things.  We have created power points, book boards, diorama's, posters, puppet shows, and much much more.  Here is the resource given to the students,  I model those I think they are unfamiliar with and as they choose if needed I model as the need arises.