I’ll be honest – I get real tired of the same writing activities over and over! You can only read “I like…” so many times in a journal, right?
So, I’m trying to mix up what we’ve got goin’ on in our Daily 5 Work on Writing goodies. So, I’ve introduced Classroom Journals to the kids.
To make, I just bought some cute composition books at Walmart.
Then, I attached the label to the front. It makes it really easy to bring lots of class journal ideas to life!
The kids are allowed to take the journals to their spots and write about the topic on the front of the book. They are supposed to write their name and date {but that doesn’t always happen!}
I keep all of the class journals in a basket on our Daily 5 bookshelf.
They’re free to grab any journal at any time!
I love to peek in the journals from time to time to see what they’ve been up to!
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Let me know if you try these classroom journals! Do you have other class journal ideas? Let me know in the comments!
7 Responses
These are radical Molly. I've been meaning to do this for ages! Thanks for doing the grunt work for me =)
Deirdre
A Burst of First
Aw, these are sweet! Thank you for sharing – love things I can print, adhere, and start rockin' in the classroom. 🙂
Your labels are awesome. We have class journals too – they really help students get motivated to write since their classmates will be reading them too : )
Linked up my sweet friend! 🙂 Cute journal idea too!! 🙂
Thank you so much! This is something I have been wanting to start, but I have no artistic skills what-so-ever.
My kiddos love writing in their class journals and reading them too!
These are great! We have a few class journals so I know my kids will be excited with the new additions! Thanks for sharing!
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