Our Summer Bucket List

What is a bucket list?  A list of things you want to do or accomplish during your lifetime. 

For example, I might have a bucket list like this:

• visit Italy

• hike to the top of a volcano 

• attend a Super Bowl

• Visit the Grand Canyon

• Jump from an airplane

Now, you are NOT going to be writing things you what to accomplish in your life time, but instead your bucket list will include things you want to accomplish before summer vacation ends. 

Brainstorming the List

You MUST include three academic goals.

For example:

• Read a chapter book without pictures

• Learn all my nines in multiplication

• Read for an hour straight because I have never done that before

• Read the classic book, Charlotte’s Web

• Read a whole chapter book out loud to my little sister at bedtime

• Learn how to do exponents/fractions/decimals

The REST can be personal goals for a total of 8 (3 academic + 5 personal).

For example:

• Make a lemonade stand

• Learn how to ride a skateboard

• Eat a cannoli 

• Eat a lobster tail

• Sleep outside in a tent

• Donate my hair

• Ride a roller coaster at Great Adventure

• Save my money to buy an iPad

1.  Use scrape paper to write your 8 summer bucket list ideas.  

IMPORTANT: Remember 3 academic and 5 personal.  Make sure they are things that are possible for you to accomplish before summer vacation ends.  You might not accomplish all of them.  That is okay, but they all should be accomplishable.  For example, do not put visit Hawaii if your parents have no plans to go there over the summer.

2. When you are done, get them approved by your teacher.  

7.  Finally, cut everything out.  

8.  Glue your handle to the bucket (either upright or folded down).  You may want to insert the handle of your shovel on the handle of your bucket (just like they sell them in store), or you can glue your shovel on the side. 

9.  Turn your list and bucket in.