Printable Version for your convenience!

Buy a pack of 12 x 12 scrapbooking paper that kids would like. On the first day of school, each student gets to pick his/her sheet of paper.

Using a digital camera and a photo printer, take a picture of each child and print it out for them.

Each student then uses stickers, decorated papers, markers, and other embellishments that showcase their personalities and interests to create a page about themselves using their picture to go along with it. As another option, students can journal about themselves on the page as well.

Each student then takes a turn explaining his or her page to the class.

Then, all of the pages are placed on a bulletin board for the first couple of weeks for classmates to look at. This is a neat idea for open house with the parents as well!

When it's time to take them down, slide the pages into a scrapbook album that is kept in the classroom reading center for the students to look back at all year long. At the end of the year, the teacher has a nice keepsake to remember his/her students by.

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