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The brown paper bag lots of us use in the first lessons of the year could be handy for the
final lessons, too. Bring a paper bag with 5 of your favourite summer objects and talk about
who you would like to share them with and why. Now, ask your students to do the same!
Ask your students to close their eyes and tell you the first 5 words that come to their mind
when they hear the word “summer”. Write down the words on the board. Instead of explain-
ing their meaning in Greek/English, talk about how their summer words “taste” or “smell”.
Then, you can create a class poster with the tastes & smells of summer.
Ask your students to draw hearts on a piece of paper and write inside what makes summer
special to them. Encourage them to share the summer feeling they most miss throughout
the year (e.g. being carefree) and discuss what they can do to feel this way the rest of the
year (e.g. stop stressing out and trying to relax more). Ask them to write their bits of advice
on post-it notes. When everyone is done, stick the post-it notes on a piece of A3 paper and
create a class “Summer all year long” poster.
Print out a beach pail and shovel template (there are tons of pails templates to find online).
Ask your students to write down their summer goals and talk about how many of them they
would like to have achieved by the end of summer. You can combine this activity with a
“crazy numbers” one where students have to write personal records given crazy numbers
like 1.0000.0000.000. For example, I’ll have eaten 1.000.0000.0000 ice creams by the end of
summer!
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