While it can be easy to remember to record the first day of school and various school events, it can be hard to remember to add to your scrapbooks the academic side of school. While parties and field trips are fun, students spend most of their day inside the classroom learning. Why not record that learning process and progress in your scrapbooks? Here are some ideas for adding academics:

• Emphasize School Subjects. School subjects such as math, science and language arts are an integral part of a school day. Find out what your children are learning and how they are learning it. Record class projects or special papers. You can even include worksheets as an example of what they are doing in the classroom.

 

 

• Remember the Good and the Bad. Not every subject is for every student. Some are more enjoyable and some are harder. What school subject does your child enjoy or dislike? Record how your child feels about various academic subjects. If there's a struggle, remember to include how the struggle was dealt with and its outcome.
• Record Success. The joy of learning is evident when students have success. They learn, change and grow. Those successes should be recorded in your scrapbooks. In my layout "Writer," I recorded how my daughter loves to write, a skill she learned at school. I even included an example of her writing from one of her school journals.

 

 

• Detail One Year of Academics. Tremendous changes in abilities and knowledge can occur in one year. Record those changes in a layout about the progress of the year. In my layout "Progress Report" I recorded my daughter's progress in three subjects by journaling about each one separately. I inserted the journaling into library pockets.

 

 

• Compare Long-term Progress. To get a clear picture of academic success record the changes and progress over a long period of time For example, compare the student as a kindergartener learning to read with the same student as an older, more fluent 4^th-grade reader. Record your observations and use comparative photographs, if possible.

For all academic topics, try to capture photographs of your subject either at school or working on schoolwork at home. Additionally include photographs of the papers brought home from school.

All design styles are appropriate for academic school layouts. Use your style, but add school-related details. School-themed embellishments such as rub-ons, patterned paper, chipboard, stickers and ribbons can be added to complement the school theme.

Academic scrapbooking allows you to record and remember the school years more completely.