End-of-Year Portfolio

When creative/proud student art or writing gets sent home during the year, the chances of it being kept are slim because what can you really do with awesome pieces here and there throughout the year, every year the child is in school???  Unless the parents/students have some organizational tool, those memories fade faster. What to do?

Well, when I taught kindergarten, we saved at least 1-2 items each month (it was much more season/holiday themed in kindergarten) and bound them all together into a book the students can take home at the end of the year. So, I decided to do this in 5th.

I decided I would keep all those poems, get to know you activities, random photos, and work that would probably be trashed or misplaced if simply sent home. Anything that was two pages or on larger paper was folded so it was more of an interactive feel. Here's how it turned out (just cock your head sideways to the left... I didn't want to resave them all the proper way!):

Father's Day Board Books with Instagram!

So this is the first year both my husband and I will be celebrating Mother's Day and Father's Day since Max was born in April.

For Father's Day, I wanted to make my husband a board book that he can read with Max throughout his toddler years.  And since it's Father's Day, I wanted to make something specifically about the two of them.  Here's the final product!