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Let's be real: The grades are in. Brains are fried (young and old). The number of days left in the school year can almost be counted on one hand. With summer break so close, students and teachers are in a different mode. And that requires different activities.

Shahyira White-Harris, a sixth-grader at P.S. 138 Brooklyn, summarized school life in June this way: "Basically, like, not that much work. But we still do work."

What does that mean? At P.S. 138, students are busy with end-of-year projects, presentations, awards assemblies and graduation ceremonies, said Marie Chauvet Monchik, the school's principal.

Some students still received homework assignments, children reported after school, including kindergarteners.  

"Every day they get math, they get crossword puzzles that they have to do," said Petrina Robinson of her son, Josiah, who is five. She said that his interest in homework recently faded, however.

William Santana, a fourth-grader at P.S. 4 Duke Ellington in Manhattan, said he was learning about electricity this week, supplied with a battery, wires and a light bulb.

"And then when I put the wires together with the light bulb on the side, it lights up," he said.

Schools are instructed to stay active until the bitter end. In a memo to principals in May, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said, "I would like to emphasize that all schools should be engaging in active learning and should maintain vibrant and functional school environments all the way through the last day of school."

Many teachers may feel the freedom to undertake fun projects or educational games without burden of state tests or teacher evaluations hanging over their heads, said Brent Nycz, a fifth-grade teacher in Manhattan, who did not want his school named.

Unfortunately, field trips that require busing are off-limits during the last two weeks of school. Buses are needed to transport students to graduation rehearsals and ceremonies, education officials said.

And June is a funky month, calendar-wise. Students have a day off of classes for an annual staff development day in June. They also have two half-days so that teachers can complete clerical work. So students spend time in and out of school during a month when many of them are already in summer-mode as it is.

And some parents have complained that their children are, indeed, spending the school day watching movies. 

Danielle Derrig said it was unacceptable that her son, a sixth-grader in Manhattan, had been spending time watching multiple movies at his school in Washington Heights (she did not want to name which one).

She said she understood the need for teachers to have time to finish grades, clean up their rooms and put things away for the next year — and that it's a time for students to have fun. But she said there are better alternatives.

"Like holding your field day in one of those days," she said. "Or having an independent project that children might be able to partake in."

She said that her son's school stopped showing movies this week after a parent complained.

With reporting from Rebeca Ibarra