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Subject: 🗓️ You need to be thinking about this
Solutions for your Sunday Scaries
I used to white-knuckle the end of the year.
The stack of grading had a hard deadline. The assemblies were multiplying. My students had mentally clocked out sometime around the last long weekend, and I was still standing at the front of the room trying to make things happen with the energy of someone running on three hours of sleep and way too much iced coffee.
Every year I told myself I’d plan for it. And every year, May showed up to find me toggling between TPT tabs at 10pm looking for something to get through the next day without resorting to another movie or a worksheet nobody wanted to do.
Honestly, my nervous system was so fried by this point every year that even setting aside time to plan got me nowhere. You know that feeling where your brain just can’t do it anymore? For some reason, the smallest tasks just feel so big.
So the only fix was getting ahead of it. Having my end-of-year activities ready before May meant that by the time the storm hit, I was prepared for it.
I stopped scrambling and started actually enjoying those last days. My students did too.
I wrote a full round-up on the blog breaking down what actually works in the final stretch of the school year –
The games that make the day feel manageable, the creative projects that still challenge students, and the reflection activities that give the year a place to land before summer.
Talk soon!
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