Letter writing allows younger students to practice cursive or spelling and older students to exercise the new vocabulary they have gained over the school year. Have students write a letter to future students entering the grade they are finishing. Children can include details such as what types of projects, assignments and learning topics to expect as well as personal anecdotes, such as personal stories about overcoming a fear of the first day of a new school year.
In an similar activity to Section 1, students write letters to their teachers for the next school year. This is slightly more complicated, as current teachers must arrange this with the children's future teachers beforehand. Encourage students to write a letter detailing what kind of child they are, any special likes and dislikes, favorite school subjects and perhaps areas they feel improvement is needed in. The current teacher can deliver the letters for the new teacher to read beforehand or with the children in September.
This writing activity can be started anytime in the last few days of the school year. Divide students up into groups and instruct them to write a short script to perform for the class. If you begin this activity during the final week of school, tell students that performances will be held on the last day. Since this activity is just for fun, encourage students to use the conventions of script writing in producing a play, or commercial, about anything wacky and wild that they desire. Students will enjoy using their creativity while learning about script writing.
A class scrapbook is a fun project that combines art and writing. Have students memorialize the school year that has passed by bringing in their favorite photographs of themselves on the last day. Each child can then decorate a page in the scrapbook with their photograph and a written paragraph. Encourage students to be creative; this written paragraph can be anything from a poem to a short biography. The students can then read the scrapbook together as a class.