These year-end pennants can help you plan ahead for welcoming your next group of students.
Students can create their own year-end pennant that might become a part of a hallway display or as a memory to take home and share with their families.
This is another free resource for teachers and homeschool families from The Curriculum Corner.
The Why
As my team was ending our year, we were working on finding a way to encourage students to reflect on their sixth-grade year while creating something that could welcome our next group of students.
In the end, I decided to create these pennants as a way to highlight the great memories from the year.
We were so excited about how they turned out. We laminated them and put them away to hang as we set up for the next school year.
Directions for students
In my class, we began by creating a graffiti wall with words to describe our school year. I encouraged students to brainstorm a list of words that shared something they learned, an experience, or another word that highlighted an emotion from the year.
Because our team has close to 100 students some students had to work harder to find some new words that fit the year and were unique. Preposterous ended up on the list along with a few others. We did go over some words to see if they truly fit the year as a whole and I encouraged students to make sure they could give me evidence to support why they chose their word.
Each student then added one word to the red graffiti wall below:
Once we had a list of words to work from, I had students choose a word and write it on a post-it note.
Next, you can give students the planning page to plan on or simply go to the pennants. In my class, I was able to have a few students create samples to use as models. Because of this, I skipped the planning pages. As you can see below, the samples students made were amazing.
One of my favorites was the center design above. A student drew a boat with 6th grade at one end and 7th at the other. The words along the rainbow path showed what we had learned throughout the year.
Students were given these directions:
top spot: one word (make it bold!)
middle spot: words and pictures to show highlights from the year
bottom spot: school name, mascot, phrase, or other way to recognize the school
You can download this free resource by clicking on the green apples:
As always, this is intended to be a free resource for teachers and homeschool families. These printables may be copied for school and home use. They may not be sold or modified and sold in any manner.