Mrs. Thorp’s Third Grade Blog

I just read an article from the Detroit Free Press where Dr. Danny Brassell, associate professor at California State University-Dominguez Hills, suggests that parents help their child make a school year scrapbook.

One way to do this is to buy a three-ring binder that your child can add pages to during the year.  These pages may be stories that your child has written during the school year, math papers, hand writing papers, awards, art pictures, photos or whatever your child wishes to remember for the school year.

Making a scrapbook may have many purposes:

• It may serve as an incentive for children to do their best so that a certain paper may be put into the scrapbook.
• It may serve as a way to encourage reading as they reread papers that are put into the scrapbook.
• It will be a good remembrance at the end of the year.
• It will show your child’s progress in learning as he/she  compares papers from the beginning to the end of the school year.
• It can promote creativity as your child decides how to decorate certain pages making it fit your child’s personality.

Let me know if you try this and how it works for you.