Re: Scrapbook project????

Posted by Sara on 10/25/06

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I am a technology intregration specialist for an elementary
school with grades 4-6. Last year I teamed up with a fifth
grade learning support teacher to turn each of the students'
writing pieces into a scrapbook. This year the students are
all in 6th grade and we are continuing to build on our ideas.

The students were always reluctant to write. When we started
the scrapbooking idea and including technology into it, they
really got engaged in their writing. By the end of last
school year the students had a scrapbook full of writing
pieces that they shared with their classmates.

The topics we covered included the required pieces in the
curriculum: descriptive, personal narrative, letter, etc. We
also did some free writing, poetry, and a descriptive piece on
a person who is close to them. Additionally, we had them
create a craft, then take a digital picture of it. They had
to describe in detail their finished product. Then we
included the picture on the page.

Some of the technology we used included Inspiration for
brainstorming, word processing (of course!), digital
photography, and the Internet. This year we would like to
also incorportate power point by printing copies of slides the
students create.

There's a great free scrapbooking software that you can
download from the Internet that our director of technology
found for us that we would like to try also. However, our
printers only print 8.5x11 paper and the scrapbooks are
12x12. Any suggestions?

We'd love to hear ideas from other people and what you might
be doing with writing scrapbooks!

On 8/29/06, mar wrote:
> On 8/28/06, Tiffany/new to 5th wrote:
>> Has anyone ever done a year long scrapbook project? I
>> teach 5th grade and I thought about doing this so they
>> will have their elementary school days in an album. I
>> would have them interview relatives and write about
>> several different things, but I was wondering what else to
>> include. I would love any insight on this project.
>> Thanks-
>
>
> I am going to try it this year. i picked up a book by Carson
> Delossa called Scrapbooking Student Writing. I am going to
> put short writing pieces and poems in it. I might also have
> them do a little summary sheet about activities from the
> month.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Scrapbook project????, 8/28/06, by Tiffany/new to 5th.
• Re: Scrapbook project????, 8/29/06, by mar.
• Re: Scrapbook project????, 10/25/06, by Sara.