Personalized Notebook

At the beginning of this semester, our professor had us start the year off with a super fun activity. Each of use brought in our own composition notebooks, our professor provided hot glue/tape and cloth materials, and we spent a class decorating our own social studies notebooks we would be using throughout the duration of the semester. This was easily one of my favorite memories and activities from this class. Not only did it give us students the ability to start off getting to use and show off our creativity, but it also provided us students with a day to have fun and bond with each other. After this initial day of creating, we proceeded to use this notebook everyday for various purposes. Personally, this act of personalizing my own notebook completely motivated and excited me to open and use this notebook whenever I got the chance. In my future classroom, I 100% plan to utilize this idea. I think allowing students the opportunity to make the notebook into something they will enjoy using on a regular basis will get them excited to use it and also motivate them to write neatly and try their hardest.

Here's a link to a teacher's way of incorporating the DIY notebook for writer's notebooks in the classroom!
http://applesofyoureye.blogspot.com/2012/08/writers-notebook-organization_24.html

Here's a picture of my journal!