Saving Memories

I have always worked with the children all each having an individual folder (plastic with easy plastic sleeves in).  These folders stay in the room and go with the child on Graduation Day.  I try and purchase the plastic folders that actually have a plastic sleeve at the front so I can slide in their photograph. This makes the books very recognisable.

The folder can have the extra art work they create (at play time) and anything they don’t want to take home during the session and put on the Goodbye Table.  I also take photos during the morning over the years and I print these off and put them into the child’s folder.

I want to take it home

The children will always create things and insist they take them home, I try and encourage the children that if they had multiple pictures or colouring in they take time to put those things into their folder. This is an interactive thing. I take the child over they find their folder and we put it in the sleeve together, sometimes taking the time to look back at the art work and pictures from past mornings.

Filling that book up

You will find that when the children have been with you for some time, they run over and put in their latest colouring and file it all by themselves as pleased as punch!

Play Time

You will see that in the content of “play time” I always have a table of colouring or sticking that has content relevant to that mornings teaching. This is different from “craft time”, after “mat time”, where the craft is very relevant to the learning topic. Sometimes craft is taken home that day, but often it is saved up for the end of term or (like building a nativity scene ready for Christmas) or to be used as your stage prop – see small children in big church/Stage Time.