OK, scrapbooks! Where to begin...actually, as soon as you complete one class set at the end of the year, you take a few week's break and you get a serious start on next year's set!! Seriously. I know this must seem like a crazy endeavor and as a team, we do question our sanity somewhere in mid-May every year when we show up at school bleary-eyed and comparing how many hours we spent on these things over the weekend, griping and carrying on! BUT, it is a labor of love and I imagine we will keep it up until one of us cries uncle!
I can't explain how proud the children are to present this collection of their year's work to their parents on our Awards day...it is priceless and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Every year, we (our team) all come up with what we can do throughout the year to make this an easier task...so here goes...
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| I start with a few pages that I can prepare beforehand during the summer. |
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| I use the die cut in our work room before the building closes for summer and cut out a few shapes that I like to use (school, shamrock and turkey). |
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| I print the scripts and back them with scrapbook paper. |
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| I make scripts for each page and file them in the order that we would complete that page within the school year. |
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| First Day of School, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Apples, Pumpkins, etc... |
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| I cut out the pirate ships for the front cover. |
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| This was the cover I used this year. I included a photo of each child wearing our pirate hat on the left side of each cover. So cute!  |
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| Messy...keep plenty of scissors, glue and water bottles on hand! |
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| This is what my First Day of School page looked like before I started using the school die cut as the background for their photo. |
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| On this page I include a class photo from the first day, their Kissing Hand and script. I also use their First Day Homework page on this layout. |
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| This is our 50's page that I prep by making the TV and having it ready to go! |
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| I print the poem and have it cut out and ready. I file the poems but I do go ahead and get their handprints done the first week of school at some point! |
K Scrapbook Handprint Poem