{"id":632,"date":"2013-04-04T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andersons.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:40:29","slug":"making-memory-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/making-memory-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Memory Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by Teresa M., Teacher, Shelbyville, IN<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andersons.com\/~\/media\/Andersons\/Products\/School-Supplies\/Arts-and-Crafts\/Paint\/CE6748\/700-0-CE6748-Imaginative-Play-Giant-Stamp-Set-001.ashx?h=360&amp;w=360&amp;as=1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"16\" \/>I love Memory Books!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a parent of college kids, I really enjoy flipping through their memory books from kindergarten and first grades.\u00a0As a teacher, I know there is so much work involved in a good memory book.\u00a0 I have found that it isn\u2019t quantity, but quality\u00a0that makes a great\u00a0book.<\/p>\n<p>I try to have students create a page with each theme\/month, and then I add a photograph to that creation.\u00a0 Students love to create the border around a photograph with giant stamps like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersons.com\/School-Supplies\/Arts-and-Crafts\/Paint\/Imaginative-Play-Giant-Stamp-Set\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imaginative Play Giant Stamps <\/a>from Anderson\u2019s. Sometimes even a cut-out like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersons.com\/School-Supplies\/Arts-and-Crafts\/Classroom-Crafts\/Big-Kid-Cutout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Kid cutouts <\/a>also from Anderson\u2019s make for a great photo frame. Sometimes I add a little more to the book, but I try to make sure the work is the student\u2019s and that the pages really show the child\u2019s development and growth.\u00a0 Then I end with a special poem to parents about cherishing the moments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Teresa M., Teacher, Shelbyville, IN I love Memory Books!\u00a0 As a parent of college kids, I really enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,8],"tags":[160,198,712],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-elementary-school","category-elementary-school","tag-crafts","tag-elementary-school-2","tag-memory-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}