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.
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last day of school photo, kindergarten photo

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



12 comments

Lenore said...

Tiffani,
I've never made a memory DVD before. You have a lot of songs you're using so do you just use snippets of eaach song? Thanks!

Tiffani said...

Hi Lenore, I don't use all of the songs. I usually use about 8 of these. This is just a list of songs that I can pick from each year.

Anonymous said...

I have a Mac and I have pictures on IMovie but, one of our tech people told me she didn't think we had all of the editing technology. So I should just use the pictures from iMovie in PowerPoint. Is that feasible? I make a dad but, every year I forget how and have to find another way and last year we didn't have Mac's.

Tiffani said...

Hi Maskedraiderfan--I take all my photos and place them in a folder within iPhoto called Kindergarten. These are the pictures I want to use. Next I put them into iMovie. Then I import my music. Once they are in iMove I go to the Share tab and select iDVD. I import it into iDVD select my theme add my text and burn the DVD. Then I continue brining DVD's until finished with a class set. I hope that helps.

Megan said...

What font did you use for the name? I am a font junkie and that is one I have not seen before. I love it!

Tiffani said...

Hi Megan, I used KG I Like to Move it for the boys, KG Only Hope for the girls names and Janda Closer to Free

Anonymous said...

Thank you, I will try that. We have a field trip so I'm keeping this short.
Sydney

Unknown said...

if you don't have a MAC what do you use?

Tiffani said...

Hi Yaremi, Many people use Windows Media player I believe. My friend over at One Sharp Bunch has a tutorial http://onesharpbunch.com/2016/05/end-of-year-video-tutorial-part-1-movie.html

Michele said...

What about copyright issues with giving a DVD
to each family?

Tiffani said...

Hi Michelle, What are referring to by copyright issues? All of the photos belong to me as I took all of them.

Michele said...

I meant the songs you use. Thanks