1-2-3 Come Write About Summer With Me!

If you visit often, you know I enjoy dreaming up things with an interesting "play on words."  "Orange you glad it's almost summer?" "I am because..." seemed a perfect fit for a fun writing prompt that I think your students will enjoy.

Make your own sample, so that you can share it with your students.  Mine always enjoyed hearing a bit about me and my life, and the example was a quick and easy way to explain what I wanted them to do. 

Afterwards, brainstorm with them about all of the things that they are looking forward to doing during summer vacation. 

During our brainstorming sessions, I jotted their ideas on the board to help my kiddos with spelling.

Here's What To Do:

Run off the orange slices on orange construction paper. Rough cut them so that each student gets a "topper" to trim.

To add a bit more pizzazz, students can color the outside edges with a dark orange crayon, or add some sparkle with orange glitter glue.

Students glue the oranges to the top of their writing prompt paper and write about what special things they can do during the summer.  Completed projects make a nice end-of-the-year bulletin board, especially if you add a school picture. 

They also look nice hung back-to-back from the ceiling. Click on the link to view/download the "Orange you glad?" summer writing prompt.

Looking for more summer writing prompts and summer bulletin boards? Click on the link to view/download a very popular packet.  Thanks for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN anything you think others might find helpful.  My "Pin it" button is at the top of the page.

While diddling with the "orange you glad" idea, I thought it would also make an easy and rather inexpensive end of the year gift for your students.  To see what I did, scroll down to the next blog article. 

"The purpose of life, is a life of purpose." -Robert Byrne