Yesterday
after school I surprised the kids with Summer Journals. I have never done this
before, but I thought this would be a fun way to "chart" their summer
and also practice writing without it seem like it’s a chore. Logan used to keep
a journal, which he wrote in every night, but as he got to be a better reader
and now reads to himself at night, he got away from the habit. It's such a FUN
way for the kids to look back too and see what they did and what they liked. I
still need to add some pages for some other camps and things I know we are
doing and I can add pages and prompts as we go too!
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| The Kids summer journals. They can color the front picture |
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| Our 2013 Summer Bucket List I put a copy in each kids journal |
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| A page about school We will do this today. |
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| I added 2 of these pages to chart their reading. They want to do the library reading program and Logan has required reading and book reports for the summer. |
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| I added some of these to each kids journal. |
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| I put more in Melina's than Logan because I also added all of the book reports sheets that were sent home with Logan. |
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| On our bucket list we have "Do a Science Experiment" We might as well write about it! |
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| The kids love to do art and projects, so I thought this would be a good pages. I added a couple of these to each journal. |
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| We love trying new things (at least Logan and Melina do!) So we can make it a point to try new food, so they can fill their pages. I put 4 of these in each journal |
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| Does this really need an explanation? Again, I put several of these in the journals |
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| I told them this would be a great page for just a "normal" day. I added 8 to each journal |
I also
have a section where I have a bunch of lined paper and plain paper for
journaling on their own and drawing. On a couple of pages I wrote prompts and I
left a bunch black too. Here are a couple of examples of prompts I wrote. I
wrote different ones in each kids book.
This last
section is for special days, field trips and camps. I created some pages based
on our bucket list and I made pages for each kids to fill out about their camp
experiences. I made 1 page for each day of their camps. I still have a couple
to add like Sports Camp at church and Mastermind camp at Boonshoft. I future I
can create and add pages as we go if we do something where I think it would be
fun to write about. I am going to create some park pages too.
Doesn't this look fun? I hope the kids enjoy!
