End of Year Reflection Lesson for Foundation to Year 2: My Year in Review
My Year in Review is an end of year reflection lesson for Foundation to Year 2 from Teach This, aligned to the Australian Curriculum. The 14-slide PowerPoint guides students to look back on their year, celebrate their growth, share a special memory and think about what comes next. Slides include Let's Jog Our Memories, My Favourite Memories, Then and Now, I Did It, A Challenge I Overcame, All About Me, My Year, My People, Looking Forward and A Message for Next Year. Each slide has simple sentence starters, such as I learnt, I was brave when and I am proud that, so young writers can share their ideas in their own words.
Teachers can work through the lesson in one session or spread it across the last week of term. It suits a whole-class discussion, a reflective writing task or an end of year keepsake, and it saves planning time in the busiest weeks of the year.
Learning goals
- We are learning to create, re-read and edit short written and multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount an event using capital letters, punctuation and correct spelling.
- We are learning to create short imaginative, informative and persuasive multimodal texts using text structures, language and grammatical features appropriate to the audience and purpose.
- We are learning to describe our personal qualities and those of others, and explain how they contribute to developing our identities.
- We are learning to create texts for a purpose that show our understanding of the connection between writing, speech and images.
- We are learning to edit our texts and make changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation.
- We are learning to use software, e.g. MS Word to construct texts and add images.
- We are learning to create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using text structures and language features appropriate to the audience and purpose.
- We are learning to re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence punctuation and text structure.
- We are learning to use software, e.g. MS Word or PowerPoint to construct texts which include visual and audio elements.
Curriculum alignment
Describe their personal qualities and those of others, and explain how they contribute to developing identities
ACELY1661 8.4 Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams ACELY1662 8.4 Re-read student’s own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation ACELY1674 8.4 Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs ACELY1664 8.4 Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs ACELY1671 8.4 Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose ACELY1672 8.4 Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structureAustralian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Let students draw their answers and dictate a sentence to an adult or buddy. Choose three or four slides rather than the full lesson for students who tire quickly.
Extensions
Ask students to add a reason or example to each sentence starter, such as I am proud that I can read because I practised every night. Have students turn their reflections into a short speech to share with a buddy class.