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Daybooks

• What are they?
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• Research tool
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• Going schoolwide
• What kids say

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What students say about daybooks

My privacy place

It helps me think of good things and bad things. And it's my privesy place. It helps me with multiplication. I right them down and they never go away. When your older you can rember it. It helps you rember what you where thinking about yesterday or soon. I'ts just pure fun to write in it. - Cayson,4th grade

My own space

I like daybooks because you can feel passionet about what you write about and dosen't matter if it's a good story or a bad story it matters if you care and if you put your best effort to it. It's like my own diary. My own space where I can feel free to write. - Destiny, 4th grade

Soothing

It helps me calm down. I write my thoughts and my questions. My storys my poems. I like to write my settings my writing entrys. My daybook helps me think. - Sam,4th grade

A place for my feelings

I can write whatever I want in it. It helped me tell about things I am feeling. I like to write in my daybook when I have free time. - Ethan, 4th grade

A place to save things

If you're writing a story and you're tired of it crumbling up, WRITE IT IN YOUR DAYBOOK. It won't get crumbled in there. Also a daybook isn't a diary. Plesure. -Jacob, 3rd Grade

A better writer

It taught me how to organize and to be a better writer. I put A words, B words, vocabulary, many stories, famous people, quotation marks, abbreviations and boy vs girl chapter stories in my daybook. - Brianna, 3rd Grade

It gives me ideas

We get to write anything we want. The daybook has helped me because it gives me ideas. You can share anything you want. I think daybooks could be better with more and more people writing in the daybook as the years go by. Because more people are learning more. - Ty, 3rd grade

Something to keep forever

It feels good to have a daybook because you're not forced to use one topic. You can make up your own and you can make up your own topic and use your own words. My daybook helps me learn because I like to look back and read my stories. If you do daybooks, you should have a share time. Reading stories from my daybook to friends also helps me find mistakes. A daybook is something you can keep forever! When I'm 28 years old, I'll probably still have my daybook. - Angel, 3rd Grade

Inspiring

Daybooks have inspired me to write more and more. Daybooks have also helped me enjoy writing. I think that all new teachers should know that you can always keep your ideas of topics that you want to write about in your daybooks. And you can write funny, sad, happy, or silly or any kind of writing in your daybooks. I have mostly stories I made up in my daybook but I have other things, too like stories that I glued in and lots of main topics and little topics that are specific. Like I might have holiday and maybe Christmas under it. And I also keep a topic list where I keep the ideas for things I'd like to write about. - Anna, 3rd Grade

Please give us time to write!

I think teachers should know that you should give the children 30 to 40 minites to wirte in there daybooks every day. Teachers should let children take home there day book. - Blakely