End of the Year Kindergarten Memory DVD

Every year I make my students Kindergarten Memory DVD.  It includes day to day photos of all the events and activities we do though out the school year in kindergarten.  I put it together before our Open House night and have it playing while students and families tour the school.  I continue adding photos up until the weekend before school lets out.
I use iMove and iDVD to create my video.  I have a playlist already set in iTunes that I import once all the photos are in place.  I begin the slideshow with the photos I took on the first day using my Large photo frame. with the letter K attached.  I end the slideshow with photos I take at the end of the year.  I use PowerPoint to create the text for the photos and then save those as images before importing into iMovie.

Each year I add a personalized DVD cover to their jewel case.  You can download an editable version here.

I ordered my DVD cases from Amazon.  They have clear and colored cases.

I've been collecting songs over the years to use.  I've finally compiled them into a playlist that I can use for our Kindergarten Memory DVD.  

We watch the DVD during the last few days of school before we do our final writing project. I ask my students to write about something did in in kindergarten using the starting sentence frame In Kindergarten….   Once they are written, we illustrate them and then I make them into a book.  The following school year i read that book to the next group of kindergartners.

I can't believe how quickly the school has gone by. We only have a few weeks left and lots of activities to fill up the days.  I will be taking a ton of photos from now until that last wee to add to my end of the year kindergarten memory DVD.  I know this kindergarten memory DVD will be something my students and their families treasure for years to come.