I have been putting together my children's academic portfolios for our upcoming portfolio review with a certified teacher. I had lots of pictures of art projects from the past school year and I needed a way to include them in the 3 ring binders I use for their academic portfolios. I stumbled across little 4" by 6" photo brag books in the $1.00 section at Target and thought they would work well for my purpose but the front cover artwork wasn't appropriate. When I got home, I realized that I could just slide out the cover artwork, put the two pieces of cardstock front to front and attach my own cover.
Once the new cover was in place, I filled an album for each child with pictures of their artwork from the school year. Then, I put the little albums in the inside pocket of their portfolio binders. 
I was so happy with the results that I started to think of other new uses for these $1.00 brag books for our homeschool. Here are the ideas I have had so far:
- We could make a Regions of the United States book with a small map of the state on one side of the double-page spread and a postcard from that state on the other side to review the regions of the United States that we have already covered.
- These little, inexpensive brag books make perfect places to publish student writing. Final drafts of stories/poetry/short reports could be written and illustrated on 4" by 6" cardstock and then simply slid into the pockets for publication.
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3 comments:
I love those little brag books too. I used to fill them with pictures of my babies and then when we went to church or other places where they would need to sit quietly, I'd just hand them each a brag book to look at. When they got bored, they could trade.
that's pretty nifty.
those are pretty.
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