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It's late May, school is nearly out in many districts, and you and your students may all be looking forward to summer vacation. Here's some advice for making the most of these last few weeks of the school year:

Elisabeth of the Spanish Mama blog reflects on some mistakes she's made in past years around this time, and then shares ten different activity ideas: https://spanishmama.com/end-of-the-year-activities-in-spanish-class/

Julia Koch AKA La prof caféinéee has written a short piece on the importance of connecting with your students as people during this busy and stressful time of year: https://juliabkoch.wordpress.com/2019/05/16/people-over-progress/

Here are a few activities, with links to more, from Eva Buyuksimkesyan of the A Journey in TEFL blog: http://evasimkesyan.com/2019/05/20/end-of-year-activities/

Consider asking your students to do an end-of-year evaluation, as recommended by JJ Epperson AKA Señora Jota Jota: https://senorajotajota.blogspot.com/2019/05/student-evaluations-valuable-reflective.html

AnneMarie Chase reminds us to enjoy the positives of language class in May in this blog post: https://senorachase.com/2019/05/16/the-sweet-spot-rethinking-may/

Julie of Mundo de Pepita shares a collection of survival tips to get you through the end of the school year here: http://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com/2019/05/end-of-school-year-survival-guide-tips.html

Laura Flynn McClintock of Teaching in the Target Languages shares a collection of game/activity ideas along with some other advice in this post: http://teachinginthetargetlanguage.com/how-can-we-end-the-year-on-a-high-note/

In this short pep talk, Sarah Shainfeld encourages us to dig deep and continue caring for our students: http://sarahshainfeld.edublogs.org/2019/05/14/digdeep/

Annabelle Williamson AKA "La Maestra Loca" suggests creating a video of your favorite moments of the year for your students. Lest you be intimidated by the idea, she provides a step-by-step guide to doing it: https://lamaestralocablog.com/2019/05/22/making-memories-last/

Allison Wienhold of Mis Clases Locas recommends taking your students outside, where they want to be anyway, and she shares a variety of language-focused activities that you can do while you're out there: https://misclaseslocas.blogspot.com/2019/05/take-your-spanish-class-outside-end-of.html