End of the Year Scrapbook

I had this fabulous idea at the beginning of the year that I would show everything I had done for our scrapbooks as the year progressed. I think I even got through Christmas with at least some ideas. For me, that's not bad. I didn't really keep it up though. I will give a look inside though.

January: My student's did a New Year's Resolution page. Next year I want to do a photo booth so I have a picture. January is also when we wrote our superhero narrative. The kids also got to pick a superhero on FaceinHole and we made superhero pictures to go with their story. 

February: My kids are "Wanted" for some lovely crimes. They get to come up with their Valentine themed crime. We also write a Valentine letter to include in the scrapbook. 

March: This year my student's drew a leprechaun trap and wrote a story about trapping a leprechaun. We also studied adjectives and they wrote ten adjectives describing themselves around their picture. To top it off we did a unit on animals and researched an animal and created a PowerPoint. The PowerPoint slides were included in the scrapbook.

April: April is one of my favorites just because we have a little fun. First, we took pictures with photo booth props and turned ourselves into rabbits. Then they wrote a story about their teacher's secret life. We also wrote letters to the principal to tell them what we would do if we had our job. 

  

End of the year: I try to have the scrapbooks done by testing because after testing things tend to move fast. This helps me get them put together. I try to include a poem from me and a few added pages like pictures from recess or from fun things we did in class.

Throughout the year I try to laminate and keep them in order and I have files for each student. Once I have most of the pages I hole punch them. Right after Spring Break I send home a note asking for a binder with a cover that I can insert a cover page in. It doesn't take long at all to put them together if you've done the work ahead of time.