Save classmates’ autographs. Collect school photos. It’s easy to make a colorful book to hold a year’s worth of your best memories.

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  Remembering your school year is a cinch with this easy-to-make autograph and memory book.

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  With Crayola® Scissors, cut posterboard for the back and front covers. Fold the cover. With Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils or Color Sticks, draw and color it. Use your imagination to create designs, such as your school logo or mascot. Use your school colors—decorate your book however you like!

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  Use the eraser to remove some color. Then add new details to your design. You can make words such as Autographs, your school name, or your grade stand out SO easily.

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  To add pages, fold several pieces of paper together to fit inside your cover. Cut along the fold lines to create pages. Insert them inside your cover. Punch holes through all of the pages. Tie them together with ribbon or string.

Standards

• LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• LA: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
• MATH: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
• MATH: Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
• VA: Use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• VA: Use visual structures of art to communicate ideas.
• VA: Select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.

Adaptations

• At the opening of the school year, students brainstorm how to create these booklets and what events they might like to memorialize in them. When initially creating the structure of the booklet, remind students that additional pages may need to be added as the year unfolds. Plan ahead!
• Create a written list of events that students want to document. Display this list in a visible stop in the classroom for easy reference.
• This booklet format can easily be adapted to similar books for poetry, short stories, sketchbooks, etc. Have students determine an additional booklet that they want and create it. Keep this one in a safe place in their desks. Students can add to the booklet as needed without interfering with other class activities.