Page Toppers

Bus Stop

• Anyone can drive a car but it takes someone special to be a school bus driver.
• Bus drivers are the driving force to a good education
• Bus drivers are the only people whose troubles are all behind them.
• The Bus Stops Here
• Magic School Bus
• A School Bus Driver is a person who smiles in the morning and smiles in the evening and eats Rolaids in between.
• School Bus Drivers are big wheels!
• School Bus Drivers are the driving force to a good education!
• School Bus Drivers proceed with caution.
• School Bus Drivers steer kids in the right direction!
• A School Bus Driver's favorite words are "Sit Down".
• The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round (write this along the bottom edge or school bus die-cut, put the name of the school on the bus and a photo of the bus driver and your child in the windows)
• You're a great school bus driver, steering us in the right direction!

First Day of School Page Ideas

• Getting ready
• Getting in the car, on the bus, or walking off
• Teacher
• Classmates looking uneasy
• Coming home
• Papers that come home the first day
• Circle time or Recess - contrast to last day of school after they have bonded
• Picture of the child standing by something to show height - then again at year end
• A sample signature to compare at end of year
• Ask child what he/she expects school to be like
• Ask what first day was like

School Album Ideas

Each year list the things below and have them write their name under their school picture.

Page ideas

• Make a border with left over ABC sticker letters (lots of U's and J's in there). Use half a sheet of gold paper (5 1/2 x 11) and randomly stick different colored letters on it. Cut into 4 equal strips. This makes a cute border for school pictures!
• Use white ABC stickers on a black page to make it look like a chalkboard.
• Cut a large outline of a bus out of gold or yellow paper that is a little larger than the class picture. If it doesn't remove anything important try cropping the photo into a bus shape.
• Use scallop scissors to cut a 'bite' out of an apple die-cut. Use with a photo of a teacher and child.

School Days Croptalk™ Pocket Page Idea

(Jean Gifford)

I gave a school design line, strip of blue paper, green triangle, gold triangle, small bus die cut and small apple die cut. Those are the basics for the "Special Memories" layout on the back page (They can use the little stickers from the design line in place of the CM stickers).

Then, I made that layout into a pocket page, by doing the following:

1. Drop the blue strip down to have its top just even with the top staple on the page.
2. Raise the school bus so that all of its windows are above the blue strip (I had it "driving" just along the top of the design line segment)
3. Cut across page along the top of the blue strip and over the top of the bus.
4. Adhere cut page on three sides to a whole page using photo tape.

End of the School Year Pages

(condensed from a handout by Sheri B. CMC)

Take a page (or piece of acid free paper) to school the last week to get signatures of teachers and friends.

Do the pages while the memories are fresh or make notes to use when you do the pages later.

Take a photo of the last day of school to compare to the first day of school photo.

Have the child write about or tell you about their favorite events from the year and the most interesting thing they learned.

Journal about their favorite subject, best friend, favorite field trips, funniest event, something they didn't like, etc.

Do something special each year to celebrate the start of summer - such as getting an ice cream cone after dinner.

School Album Ideas

• A school album can contain all the school photos and memorabilia in a separate album or you can include one page of school stuff each year in the child's regular album and put the rest of the stuff in a school album.
• Some people let the child help with the school album - and even do the whole thing when they are older if they are interested. This is a great project for kids who are home-schooled.
• You can take one each of the blue, green and mahogany album and mix up the binding covers to get an album that goes with the school pages. If you don't need 3 albums you could do it with two colors such as your school colors. (Michelle U.)
• School/Family Album - Make double page spreads for everyone in your family (parents, children, grandchildren) Put a kindergarten or first grade photo on the left page and a graduation photo on the right page. Write in names, dates, schools, etc.

School ABC's

(compiled by Denny Davis)

This list that is for primary, elementary and junior high. Also see the High School ABC List.

A - ABC's, achievements, activities, addition, alphabet, answers, appreciation, arithmetic, art, assembly, athletics, awards
B - backpacks, bake sales, band, baseball, basketball, bells, biology, birthday party, blackboard, book reports, books, buddies, bus, bus driver
C - cafeteria, calculator, calculus, calendar, carnival, chalkboard, championship, cheerleading, children, Christmas program, choir, class officers, classroom,, clothing, coloring, colors, computer lab, costumes, counting, crayons, creative, cross country crafts
D - dances, debate, desk, dictionary, division, drama, drawing
E - eighth grade, education, earth science, enthusiastic, essays, English class, Easter, encyclopedia, elementary grades, eraser, extra-curricular activities, effort, easel, eager, emergency drills, enrollment, exercise, excellent, excited, explore
F - first grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, first day of school, Fine Arts, fractions, fun, field day, French class, field trips, fabulous friends, fund raisers, football, facts, finger paint, flag, foreign language
G - grades, glue, globe, grammar, games, geography, golf, geometry, gym, graduation, great teacher
H - homeroom, honor roll, home economics, history, hair styles, homework, history, holiday, hangin' out, hall pass, handwriting, health, helper, homeroom
I - imagination, improvement, inquisitive, instructions, intelligent, interests, Internet, important, incredible, ink
J - janitor, joking around, journalism, Junior High, job chart, juice, jungle gym, June at last!
K - keyboard, kidding around, kids, kindergarten, knowledge, kudos
L - last day of school, laughter, learn, lessons, letters, library, listen, literature, lockers, lunch room, language, leader, listening, locker
M - mascot, math, middle school, Monday, multiplication, music, make-up test, memories, mid-terms, music
N - nap time, naughty, nervous, new kids, new clothes, nice, notebooks, notes, nouns, numbers, new teacher
O - obedience, observation, Open House, ordinary day, organized, outstanding, outside (recess), office
P - paper, parents, parent-teacher conference, parties, pen, pencils, penmanship, play, playground, plays, practice (band, sports, plays), principal, program, painting, perfect, physical education, pop quiz, projects, pumpkin farm
Q - quality, questions, queue, quizzes, quotient, quality time, quiet time
R - reading, recess, report cards, responsibility, room mother, ruler, rules, respect, rest rug
S - safety patrol, school , school days, school secretary, School's Out, science, second grade, seventh grade, sixth grade, soccer, social studies, softball, Spanish, speech, spelling, spelling bee, sports, spring break, student, Student Council, Student of the Week, study, substitute, subtraction, superintendent, school pride, school song, sharing, show and tell, sum, swings
T - teachers, teacher's aide, Teacher Appreciation Week, team, terrific teacher, test, TGIF, Thanksgiving, thinking, third grade, times tables, trophy case, trying, T-shirts, typing
U - unexplored, unforgettable, uh-oh!, unique, uppercase, useful
V - vacation (Christmas, Easter, summer, etc.), valedictorian, Valentine's, verb, very smart, videos, vocabulary, vowel
W - washing hands, water fountain, Webster's Dictionary, weekly reader, whispering, win, wisdom, wrestling, writing
X - eXcited, X-ellent, eXercise, eXperiences, Xerox copies, X-tra ___, Xtra credit
Y - yearbook, yell, yes ma'am, yippee it's Friday! you, you did it!, young
Z - zany, zealous, zero, zillion reasons I like school, zzzz's (nap time)

Also include - school name, teachers names, friends names, school song, specific classes, etc.