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Summer holiday journal/diary

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enderwoman · 07/07/2014 17:52

I usually help my kids to write a summer holiday diary over the holidays. They stick I photos,write about stuff they've done, friends they've met up with etc

I usually buy a plain scrapbook and put stickers on the cover.Is there such a thing as a summer holiday journal for children Staycationing? I don't want one that's for trips abroad because we aren't travelling anywhere exotic. Ds (y3) loathes writing and a more fun format might inspire him a bit.

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noramum · 07/07/2014 19:28

I just get normal notebooks and let DD loose. She also hates writing but this normally is not too bad. I let her choose the cover and she can buy a new pen as well.

PastSellByDate · 07/07/2014 20:03

Our school assigned this regardless of what children were doing over the summer. Sometimes they provided books/ sometimes we had to do something.

I found just using a WH Smith A3 colour paper book (about 20 pages) was perfect.

If you're staying at home there is still tons to do.

DD2 photographed butterflies she spied in the garden.
photographed the Robin's nest & baby robins eggs/ fledgelings.
photographed our visiting fox early one morning.
photographed neighbours cat who came by every evening.
photographed sunsets/ sunrises.

Photographed the moon.

She kept a diary of the plants she planted & how they grew over the summer. She wrote about collecting seeds/ dividing plants with me.

She rated films we went to see and reviewed them.

She wrote about going to the park/ play dates/ water balloon fights/ etc...

She drew pictures and made up stories.

We were asked to show 3 examples of maths during the summer - so she showed how to divide a restaurant bill between 4 people (we went out with friends)/ she calculated how much she saved buying her swimsuit on sale in July/ she calculated how much change from £20 for 5 of us going to a matinee film.

She made top ten lists:

Top ten things to do in school.
top ten things to do out of school.
top ten books.
top ten films.

she photographed her house of cards just before it fell, capturing the collapse.

She photographed balancing towers of her toys.

She included paintings/ drawings & photos of clay creations.

HTH

enderwoman · 07/07/2014 20:44

Pastsellbydate
The list ideas are great. I think he could really get into that.
Some of your other ideas are fab too- especially the film review idea which we always do verbally.

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enderwoman · 07/07/2014 20:46

Noramum - if I don't get any recommendations we'll probably go with our usual scrapbook and stickers.

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Olaffles · 07/07/2014 20:51

Last year Sainsbury's did a book of summer, which was one book of "things to do" and ideas during the holidays, and another with pages to record what you did with headings for paragraphs or pictures/drawings. Haven't seen one for this year yet but keep your eye out as they were quite good - about £10 for both though!

nonicknameseemsavailable · 07/07/2014 21:07

we bought scrapbooks cheap from Wilkinsons, if you stick pretty paper on the cover they look more interesting.

things like what we have spotted in the garden, we went to the south west on holiday and visited a flour mill (free), Eden Project (affordable on tesco vouchers) and did rockpooling etc. also put in some pictures of flowers in the garden, trips to the park, seeing family and so on.

enderwoman · 09/07/2014 18:00

Olaffles I noticed that the Book People had a book called something like 100 things to do before you are 11 3/4
I will look out for the Sainsburys book.

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enderwoman · 09/07/2014 18:01

Thank you nonicknameseemsavailable
I think we'll be doing lots of free/cheap stuff too

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