End of Year Reflection Packet

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The End of Year Reflection Packet will give students a chance to reminisce on the school year and complete fun writing activities while doing so.

There are 15 different pages that will have students reflect on their highlights, challenges and so much more. Some of the prompts include the following:

- What are 3 things you wish you did this year but did not do?
-What is something you wish you knew at the start of the year?
-What are 3 of the best memories of the year?
- What is one word that sums up this year?
- What is something that disappointed you this year?
-Have you changed from the beginning of the year?
-What challenges have you overcome this year?

And 8 other prompts to get your students to share in writing their experiences during the year.

This End of Year Reflection Packet may be completed one page at a time throughout the last weeks of class and then build the packet.

This End of Year Reflection Packet is designed for students in elementary schools, though it can also be used for any student.

Print the pages you want to use from this End of Year Reflection Packet.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Recall and record specific moments from the year — three best memories, three things not done, the kindest act someone did for them
Name a difficulty and describe how it was overcome, rather than listing only the good parts of the year
Compare themselves at the start and the end of the year in the "Me then… / Me now…" split

Teaching tips

Each page stands alone, so one a day through the last weeks builds the packet gradually instead of filling a single long session
THE BAD and MY WORRIES invite negative answers; decide in advance whether those two pages stay private, come to you only, or are shared aloud
The prompts assume a full year in the same class, so a student who joined partway through may need one or two sheets swapped for others in the set

Skills covered

Personal reflective writing — students answer prompts such as "What is something that disappointed you this year?" and "What challenges have you overcome this year?" on ruled lines.
Precise word choice — ONE WORD asks for a single word that sums up the year, and IN THIS MOMENT asks for seven adjectives describing themselves right now.
Goal setting — NEXT YEAR asks for hopes and goals for the coming school year while MY WORRIES asks what concerns them about it and why.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are all fifteen pages writing pages?

Most are a question above ruled lines, but four work differently: ONE WORD is decorated and designed in an open space, MY FAVORITE SPOT is a drawing page, WHO AM I? is a two-column then-and-now page, and AUTOGRAPHS is left blank for classmates to fill in.

Which pages look forward rather than back?

Three of them. NEXT YEAR asks for hopes and goals for the coming school year, MY WORRIES asks what worries the student most about it and why, and OVER THE SUMMER asks for summer plans.

Do any pages need other students to be involved?

Two. AUTOGRAPHS is filled in by classmates writing comments, and OVER THE SUMMER ends with the instruction to share the answer with a classmate, so both are built around the class rather than the individual.

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Core concepts

End-of-year reflection
Reflective writing
Goal setting
Self-awareness

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