So it's weird to be starting a blog at the end of the school year. Or, maybe, it's nice.
For me, and for many teachers I'm sure, the end of the year is almost as hard as the beginning. And in teaching kindergarten, it is never easy to say goodbye to those sweet little faces you grew to love through the year.
For the last week of school I am giving students these memory books to work on in their "free time" to keep the busy and to keep them from going coo-coo-bananas. Is it just me or do students get super restless the last month of school? And my students are not even old enough to be aware how close summer is. I don't get it!
For this project you need:
I got the activity pages from
this blog. It's a cute blog that has differentiated pages for Pre-K through 2nd grade. I reduced the pages in size by half so that they would fit the paper bag book.
I started by assembling the paper bag books.
Place three brown paper bags side by side. I used larger sized lunch bags so that there would be enough room for the memory book pages.
The important thing here is that you alternate the openings so that the "pockets" in the book alternate as well.
Stack the paper bags on top of one another and then fold in half.
When I looked up a tutorial to do this originally the blogger was all, "now punch two holes in the edge and you can start stringing ribbon through your book." Well, now doesn't that sound like it should be easy? I'm not the strongest woman alive but I pride myself on my hole punching skills, and I couldn't for the life of me punch through three bags at once.
Instead I punched each bag individually.
Once you have the bags hole punched, stack them back together (being sure to keep them in the alternate order as before).
Now you can string your ribbon through.
Using the double sided tape, attach your memory book pages. Hand to your students and run. Just kidding :).
