"Just Keep Swimming"... The end of the school year is almost here!!

The school year is fast approaching us! As teachers, we get so excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, that light seems very hard to see on some of these LONG end of the year, spring/summer-fever kind of days. The kids are for the most part out of control and it is hard to even want to try to control them any longer. We had our last team meeting on Friday for my K-3 team. I hosted our party in my classroom. Every month, a different teacher hosts our meeting and gets to choose a pot-luck theme for lunch. I choose to do a salad bar with all the fixin's! It was so delicous!

I wanted to do something fun since it was our last meeting. I thought of how hard teachers work and how hard it is to stay focused somedays to get through the day. Let's face it... the kids are done and so are most teachers. We only have 4 weeks of school left. I kept thinking of Finding Nemo and Dori's famous line, "Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming!" I thought that was perfect for our theme for our last team meeting. I decorated my room up a bit with fish, bright colored lanturns, sunglasses, beach balls, and other sea related items. It turned out to be a huge success and was perfect for our last meeting. I made some really darling tokens for everyone to take with them. I used small baggies and filled them with Sweedish Fish and stapled a tag to the top. It was so simple, and made a huge impression.

Sometimes all you can do at the end of the school year is just endure! So to all my fellow teachers out there, you can do it! Just keep swimming! It will be over soon!

If you need something for your coworkers, teacher friends, child's teacher or just anyone who needs a bit of encouragement for the rest of the school year, you can print a FREE PRINTABLE of my Just Keep Swimming sign and also my treat tags!  Click Here to Download!

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