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Create a check-in board on the
side of a file cabinet. Pictures of children with magnet on
the back are placed on the “Present” side of the file
cabinet (create 2 sides with colored tape running down the
cabinet)
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Create an alphabet photo book by
allowing the children to help you take pictures of things in
room and then create an ABC book.
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Create puppets using children’s
faces glued to a created cutout of their bodies, or just on
a popsicle stick.
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Record a field trip with pictures.
Then import pictures into PowerPoint and have the children
tell you what to write for each picture. You can also take
pictures of their drawings and incorporate them into the
PowerPoint. Print them out for class books.
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Make pictures of the children as
they eat lunch, nap, have circle time. Use these to create a
schedule that the children can read as well!
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Put children’s pictures on top of
their names on their cubbies so that all the children as
well as parents can recognize each cubbie.
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Take pictures of your bulletin
boards to help you remember how you did them.
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Have children take pictures of
things that correspond to a number, pictures of various
shapes, students make addition or subtraction problems using
photos they have taken.
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Use photos of children in your
newsletters.
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For guidance take a picture of the
children doing the things you want them to do and post
those.
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Post pictures of steps for washing
hands over sink.
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Have children dictate a story to
you on the computer, and then draw a picture. Take a digital
image of picture and insert it into story of child.
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Take a series of pictures (1st
step, 2nd step, etc) showing how to do something (how to
measure for cooking, how to add 2 numbers, how to conduct a
science experiment, how to draw a picture in Kid Pix, etc.).
Post the pictures in the center the children are working in.
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Record pattern block
constructions, story maps, inventions, etc.
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Take pictures of students in
September, January, & February to watch them grow.
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Document the growth of a school
project: planting & growing of a class garden, any school
construction project, the tree outside your classroom window
throughout the seasons, etc.
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Create a "Class Rules" book
complete with illustrations of acceptable behaviors (with
your students posing "caught" in appropriate activities).
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Take pictures around town of
easily recognizable signs (the McDonald's arches, the Big
Boy, etc). Assemble into a book titled "I Can Read".
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Record a series of student
pictures as they act out a story they've read or that
another student has written. Use as illustrations for the
story or as a means for telling what happened first, etc.
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Print out full-body photos of
students in "poses". Cut out their picture from the
background and glue into art projects ("This is me in Fall",
"Me on the Ocean Floor", etc.).
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Fall introductions: Set up a
template for a Classroom Trading Card. Each card should
include the student's picture, their full name, and
important facts about that student. Print out on card stock
and have students had them out to each other so each student
has a full class set. Post a set on a bulletin board, use as
drawing cards to decide groups, who are next on the
computer, etc.
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Insert a digital picture of you on
your "Welcome to my classroom" card that you send out before
school starts.
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Make concentration games by
printing 2 pictures of each child, laminate, and cut out.
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