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Session 17: Year Celebration 🎉

Overview

Grades: 1-2 | Duration: 30 minutes | Session: 17 of 17

Students celebrate their year of C-STREAM discovery, sharing accomplishments and looking forward to future learning adventures.

Session 17: Year Celebration

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, students will:

  • Reflect on their year of learning

  • Share favorite projects and discoveries

  • Celebrate growth in C-STREAM skills

  • Express excitement for continued learning

Session 17: Year Celebration

Materials Needed

  • 📓 Design Detective journals (from all year)

  • 📸 Photos from C-STREAM sessions

  • 🏆 Certificates (optional)

  • 🎨 Display materials for work

  • 🎈 Celebration decorations

Catholic Integration

Saint Connection

All the Saints We Met This Year — St. Francis, Mother Teresa, Blessed Carlo Acutis, St. Joseph, and more showed us how faith and learning go together!

Scripture

"I thank my God every time I remember you." — Philippians 1:3

Opening Prayer

Dear God, thank you for an amazing year of discovery and learning! Thank you for our teachers, classmates, and all the wonderful things we've explored. Bless us as we continue to grow. Amen.

Lesson Procedure

Opening Circle (5 minutes)

  1. Celebration Time! — "We did it! A whole year of C-STREAM!"
  2. Memory Lane — Show photos from the year's sessions
  3. Counting Learning:
  4. 17 sessions of exploring
  5. Towers, robots, butterflies, magnets, and more!
  6. Saints We Met — Quick list of saints from the year

Main Activity: Exhibition & Celebration (19 minutes)

Part 1: Journal Review (5 minutes)

  • Students look through their Design Detective journals

  • Mark favorite pages

  • Find: "My best work" and "My biggest challenge I overcame"

Part 2: Partner Share (5 minutes)

  • Share with a partner:
  • Favorite project from the year
  • Something difficult you figured out

  • What you want to learn next

  • Partners celebrate each other!

Part 3: Class Gallery (5 minutes)

  • Display journals and saved projects

  • Gallery walk to see everyone's work

  • Give compliments!

Part 4: Awards & Looking Forward (4 minutes)

  • Optional certificates:
  • "Design Detective Champion"
  • "Tech Wizard"
  • "Earth Care Hero"
  • "Creative Engineer"

  • "Faith & Science Explorer"

  • Next year preview: "Even more adventures await!"

Design Detective Journal (4 minutes)

  1. Final journal entry:
  2. My favorite C-STREAM memory
  3. Something I learned about God's world
  4. What I want to learn next year

Closing Circle (2 minutes)

  1. Gratitude Circle — Each person: "I'm thankful for..."
  2. Summer Challenge — "Keep being a Design Detective all summer!"
  3. Final Blessing & Prayer:

Dear God, Thank you for this year of wonder. Thank you for creative minds and helping hands. Thank you for showing us that faith and science are friends. Bless these Design Detectives as they grow. Keep their curiosity alive forever. In Jesus' name, Amen.

🎉 CELEBRATION! 🎉

Assessment

End-of-Year Reflection:

  • Can identify favorite learning experiences

  • Shows growth in design thinking

  • Demonstrates curiosity and wonder

  • Connects learning to faith

Differentiation

For Students Who Need Support

  • Help identify journal highlights

  • Partner for sharing

  • Focus on verbal celebration

For Advanced Students

  • Present to class

  • Create "advice" for next year's students

  • Write reflection letter

Wonder at Home 🏠

Summer C-STREAM Challenge:

  • 🔍 Be a Design Detective everywhere!

  • 🏗️ Build with anything you find

  • 🤖 Notice technology around you

  • 🌿 Care for creation

  • 🦋 Watch for nature's changes

  • ❤️ Help others with your skills

  • 🙏 Thank God for wonder!

Teacher Notes

  • Prepare certificates in advance

  • Invite families if possible

  • Take lots of photos!

  • Send journals home as keepsakes

  • Celebrate each child's unique growth

🎊 Congratulations, Design Detectives! 🎊

You've completed Grades 1-2 Year B C-STREAM!

This year you:

  • ✅ Became Design Detectives

  • ✅ Built towers and structures

  • ✅ Programmed Sphero robots

  • ✅ Explored animal adaptations

  • ✅ Created digital art

  • ✅ Experimented with magnets

  • ✅ Learned about butterflies

  • ✅ Cared for God's creation

You are engineers, scientists, artists, and children of God!

Keep designing. Keep discovering. Keep praising God.

Previous: Session 16 — Earth Care

End of Grades 1-2 Year B Bi-Weekly C-STREAM Curriculum