Turn your kindergarten classroom into Camp Learned-a-Lot during the last week of school. Set up a few tents in the classroom. Label one tent "Camp-Read-a-Lot." Fill the tent with comfortable pillows and favorite books that pupils read this school year. Label another tent "Camp-Math-a-Lot" and place supplies for favorite math games inside. Have a "Camp-Science-a-Lot" tent feature a favorite experiment, while "Camp-Art-a-Lot" allows pupils to paint, color or play with clay. Allow pupils to camp out in the tents and relive what they learned this year.
Read bubble-theme books such as "Bubble Trouble" by Mary Packard or "The Bubble Factory" by Tomie dePaola. Take kindergartners outside for some bubble fun. Let them to use different objects such as bubble wands, straws, flyswatters and plastic strawberry baskets to blow bubbles. Allow pupils make large bubbles by dipping wire coat hangers or pipe cleaners hooked together in pans of soap solution. Have kindergartners dip their hands in the soap solution, then try to catch a bubble on their hands without its breaking.
Make class memory books together. Take a class picture and give kindergartners a copy to glue on the cover of their books. Staple blank pages for pupils to write or draw their favorite things, such as animals, sports, vacation spots, colors, subject in school, friends and field trips. Help kindergartners stamp their hand prints on the back page of the book. Have pupils sign their name under the hand prints and date their memory books.
Take kindergartners on a treasure hunt. Hang the first treasure map clue in your classroom. The first clue might read, "We ran, we jumped and we had fun. Find me for your next clue." Pupils find the physical education teacher for their next clue. Set up clues for kindergartners to visit all the special people with whom they have worked this year, such as librarians, office staff, and art and music teachers. While you are out treasure hunting with pupils, have parents set up an end-of-the-year party. Have the last clue return kindergartners to their classroom for the big surprise.
Invite parents, grandparents and friends to a kindergarten graduation ceremony. Have pupils help write invitations and make paper mortarboard hats. Teach kindergartners a graduation song to sing. If you have pictures from the school year, have pupils help you create a memory collage to hang on the bulletin board for parents to enjoy. Have pupils walk across a stage to shake your hand and receive their graduation certificate. Have a volunteer take pictures of graduates getting their certificate for family keepsakes. Enjoy juice and cookies afterward.