Hosting a summer party is a great way to relax with your friends and create a memory to last a lifetime. Choose a date and time to have your party, and then invite all of your friends to attend. Send the invitations at least a week before the party so that everyone has time to free their schedule up for your awesome party. Make sure to tell your friends important details about the party on the invitation. For example, tell people to wear or bring their swim suits if you’re having a pool party or water activities.  Use an online invitation company that sends invites through email. This is one of the best ways to send invites online because the invitation only goes to the people you personally invite, and you can keep track of who has seen the invitation and who is coming to the party. There are many fun designs to choose from to make your invitation unique to your party. Invite friends by sending them an invitation on social media. This is a great way to invite people to a party because it’s one of the most used forms of communication today, but be careful, it’s easy for people to share your personal information on social media. If a friend shares the details about your party, you might end up with more people coming than you wanted. Send an invitation in the mail. This is a great way to send an invitation in a more personable way. It also gives your friends an actual invitation to hang up on a bulletin board or their refrigerator to remind them of the party. You will want to have some activities planned to keep your party guests entertained at your party. You can plan to have activities that involve the entire party at once, or have many different activities set up for party guests to participate in if they want to.  Things like ping pong, corn hole, frisbee throwing, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, slip-n-slide, and hula hooping are great activities to have out for guests to participate in if they would like to. Water gun or balloon fights, relay races, volleyball, freeze dance, the limbo, and an outdoor olympics are great activities to have the entire party participate in. Consider having a photo booth set up for your guests to dress up in fun costumes and take silly pictures of themselves. You can easily make one out of a cardboard box. A summer party needs to have lots of delicious food and drinks to keep the party guests happy. Consider what time you’re having your party at to decide how much food to serve. Parties that happen in between meal times can have just snack food out, but parties that occur over lunch or dinner time should have more main dishes available.  Finger foods like a veggie tray, fruit kebabs, chips and dip, trail mix, crackers, popcorn, pretzels, and pigs in a blanket are great options for snacks at a party. For a main dish, consider having hotdogs, hamburgers, chicken wings, sandwiches, or chicken fingers for your party. Party decorations make the atmosphere festive and fun and will put a smile on your guests’ faces. Think about having a theme for your party to create a focus for your decorations. Put down colored table clothes where you’ll serve the food, decorate the door the guests will enter, and hand streamers around to add instant fun to your party.  Having a luau theme is a popular choice for summer, and many party stores sell luau themed decorations during summer time. Beach balls can be an inexpensive way to add lots of color to your party, and they can also provide some fun for your guests as well!
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One-sentence summary -- Invite your friends. Plan out activities. Decide on the food you will serve. Decorate for your party.


Be on your absolute best behavior, especially for the first few weeks of school.  Sit quietly.  Don’t pass notes.  Keep your phone silent and in your bag.  Always raise your hand before speaking.  Put your lab equipment away properly.  Ignore the lovebirds whispering sweet nothings to each other behind you. Don’t test the rules to see what you can get away with.  Let some other kid do that.  Focus on impressing your teacher with your knowledge of and adherence to the classroom rules.  This demonstrates maturity, respect, and diligence. Don’t let yourself think that others’ conversations or hijinks give you license to do the same.  Keep your primary goal — learning — in mind.  Brush aside distractions, and never become a classroom distraction yourself. You will be a distraction, and you won’t be ready to learn, if you show up late to class.  Do everything you can to make it to class on time, if not early.  Unless you have a truly legitimate reason for being late, don’t try to make excuses.  Be as discreet and quiet as possible as you take your place in class, and give an apologetic look to your teacher. attentively to your teacher.  How do you know when it is important to pay attention?  It’s a trick question:  it’s always important — if you want to make a good impression!  Having to ask the teacher to repeat something can be embarrassing and indicates that you don’t care enough to give your best effort. If you’re having trouble keeping focused during class, ask to be moved to the front row.  This is especially helpful if other students are distracting you, or if you have any kind of hearing or vision difficulties.  Talk to your teacher about other possible solutions if necessary. Nobody wants to be the kid who tells the teacher about every little thing other students do wrong — this is the easy way to get labeled the ”teacher’s pet” or a “snitch” by your classmates.  So, yes, use your judgment in deciding what to report and what to let slide.  But, when you know something disruptive or otherwise wrong is going on, report it quietly to your teacher. Don’t raise your hand and blurt out “Mrs. Magowan, Sam and Max are talking instead of paying attention.”  Instead, wait until after class and discreetly voice your concerns about the distraction they are causing you and others.  If, however, Sam and Max are playing around recklessly with the Bunsen burner, inform your teacher right away.
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Know and obey the classroom rules. Avoid tardiness and distractions. Listen Tell your teacher about problems in class.