When I Grow Up – End-of-Year Career Activity
- Grades
- Preschool–5, Elementary
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Language Development, ESL, Writing, Creative Writing, Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, End Of Year, Special Resources, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Topic
- end of year, end of year activities
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Writing Prompts, Worksheets, Coloring Pages, Teacher Tools, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Classroom Decor, Activities, Centers
- Preparation
- Print ready
About this resource
What's inside this resource
When I Grow Up is a creative and thoughtful end-of-year activity that encourages students to imagine their future careers. This resource invites students to think about what they want to be when they grow up, complete sentences with their own ideas, and draw a picture of themselves doing that job. It’s a fun and inspiring way to wrap up the school year while helping students dream big and express their goals.
Ways to Use:
As a writing and art activity during the last week of school.
As part of a career exploration or goal-setting lesson.
To support Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) by encouraging self-reflection.
In classroom discussions about hopes and dreams for the future.
As a keepsake for students or parents to remember their aspirations.
Advantages:
Encourages students to think about their interests and future goals.
Builds writing skills through guided sentence completion.
Promotes creativity through drawing and self-expression.
Helps students connect their learning to real-life possibilities.
Easy to use with minimal prep, great for busy end-of-year schedules.
Perfect for elementary students, When I Grow Up is a meaningful and enjoyable way to end the school year on a positive, hopeful note.
Pdf file includes 2 pages.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students can write complete sentences describing an imagined future career, including the job title and a reason for choosing it.
Students can connect a current interest or favorite school subject to a future career goal.
Students can describe practical details of an imagined future, such as where they will live or what they will wear at work.
Teaching tips
Use the drawing box on the first page as a quick visual check that students have committed to a specific job idea before they write.
Assign the second, ten-question page as a follow-up for students who finish the first page early, since it asks for more depth on the same career idea.
Save both pages for the last week of school, since the sentence starters work as a light, low-prep wrap-up activity rather than new instruction.
Skills covered
Sentence completion writing — filling in guided sentence starters with original ideas about a future career.
Self-reflection — connecting personal interests and favorite subjects to an imagined future goal.
Visual self-expression — drawing a picture of themselves performing their imagined future job.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
How do the two pages differ from each other?
The first combines short fill-in-the-blank lines with a drawing space, while the second offers ten longer sentence starters that ask students to explain their reasoning in more depth.
What career does the activity ask students to imagine?
Whatever job the student chooses for themselves — both pages leave the job title blank for the student to fill in rather than assigning one.
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career exploration
goal setting
self-reflection writing
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