Memory Makers: Early Childhood: Activities to Capture the School Year by Tracy Jarboe and Stefani Sadler	Making Memories Month by Month: Poems, Art Projects & Activity Ideas for Creating Student Scrapbooks: Grades PreK-1
Collectible Activities for a Year-Long Memory Book	Another resource is available from Katie & Co. That website has a blackline master book available for purchase called "Memory Book Madness." Check it out!

1. Before school starts, make a list of things you'd like to include. You might want to include assessment items, or arrange your book by months, or letters of the alphabet or whatever would work the best for you! You will begin collecting pieces on the first day of school! Don't forget to take a first day of school photo!

2. Create a file folder for each child in your class.

3. As you complete pages for their book file them into the file folder in the order that you would like them to appear in the book. You can always rearrange, but having them in order will save alot of time at the end of the school year.

4. If a student is absent on the day a page is completed I decide how important that page is to their book. Then I decide if I want them to complete it. If you try to get all of the missed pages made up you could drive yourself crazy, so pick and choose.

5. About a month before school is out I begin to get the books ready for binding. I use a comb binder so the pages must be punched and then bound. Sometimes I bind what I have and then add the last few pages as we do them in May.

6. I use a 10 cent two pocket folder for the cover. I cut the folder in half on the fold and then punch the front and back cover. I trimmed the three-holed punched side off of a page protector and slide the cover page on that and then stapled that to the cover of the folder. The pockets of the folder come in handy for extra photos, a copy of the report card and miscellaneous items that I include.

7. We take the books home on the last day of school. The Kinderkids LOVE paging through them and I stress that this is a real book and they need to treat it that way - don't write in it and handle it gently.

Cover	Introduction page
First Day of School Poem and Picture	Self-Portrait from first week of school.
Handprints	Chicka Chick Boom Boom - Look who's in our room! Class photo with names of students underneath.
Postcard from our postcard exchange	Bus Safety
Page from a classroom book that was illustrated by the child in September.	October - Name sample with Fall or Halloween theme
Pumpkin Estimation Page	Photo of pumpkin carving helper - parents or grandparents usually.
Turkey Handprint	Page from Class Book
Page from Class Book	Page from Class Book
Page from Class Book	Snowflake cutting sample
Visual motor page explanation	Visual motor page from Fall
Visual motor page from Spring	Sheet containing name samples from each month or quarter - depending on how often sample is collected.
Photo of child with the class bear - Ted E.	Ted's Adventure that were shared by the child's family
Group photo from Field Trip to the Zoo	Special Events photos
Journal Writing Samples	Journal Writing Samples
Science Bag experiment notes shared by the family	Family Activity Calendar sample
Envelope to hold Progress Report	The contents of this book change from year to year. I work to include something from each month of the school year - a project, a photo or a writing sample.