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After hearing all about Discovery Packs on the KinderKorner website, I had to make some! Well it has been quite a job!
Victoria made hers using an envelope. I made mine using bags. I found my bags at Dollar Tree. They are mostly clear plastic with the handles and edges being different colors. These bags also have a small pocket on the front. Perfect for an index card. On the front of every index card, I have written the title of the bag, sometimes I include a stamp or picture. On the back side I have written the contents of the bag on the lined side of the card. Besides the index card in the pocket, I slip a library card inside too. This is for the students to write their names on, just like at the library.(Well at least before computers! lol)
Using name tickets, I pick names so the students may choose their bags. They choose their bag, take out the card, write their names on it, and give the card to me. The students choose the bag they want on Monday and return it on Friday. I created a form very similar to Victoria's. For the few years that I have done this program, my students have only lost two books and an audio tape. It states in the contract that families are responsible for anything that happens to the contents. I have had great parent support with these. I have had parents donate things to me, that I could potentially make into bags.
SO?!?!? Where do you start????
Start with what you have. Look for duplicates of books you already own.
Then look at units that you once taught but no longer teach, use them!
Shop your local Buy/Sell sites, thrift stores, Dollar Tree :)
Don't want your students to take them home? Make them a center!
Same thing applies. They pick 1 and use it for the week.
Same thing applies. They pick 1 and use it for the week.
Use them as morning work.
I like it for the home school connection.
Contents inside the bags vary bag to bag but they all contain a parent and student journal. When I check these in, I read the journals when I get time. When I get to a student journal, I give that child the option to tell what they wrote or have me read it. They all have several books at all different levels.
Some have:
*flannel board stories
*file folder games
*rubber stamps
*games
*flannel board stories
*file folder games
*rubber stamps
*games
I am always adding to these bags. Is there something that you think that my kids would just love that I don't have? Please let me know :)
So far I have these bags:
All About Numbers
Alphabet
Animals
Apples
Back to School
Birthday
Buttons Buttons
Christmas
Colors
Curious George
Dinosaurs
Easter
Environment
Fairy Tales
Farm
Football
Friends
Frogs
Gingerbread
Going Nutty
Halloween
Insects
Jelly Beans
Little Green Dragon
Money
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Pizza Pizza
Plants
Rain Forest
Sports
St Patrick's Day
Summer Splash
Teeth
Thanksgiving
Time
Trucks
Valentine's Day
Weather
Winter Wonderland
New Ideas
Science
Pete the Cat
Wild West
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year
Watermelon
Ice Cream
Sharks
America
Zoo
Camping
Summer
Spring
Pirates
Pirates
Monsters
Nursery Rhymes
5 Senses
Robots
Eric Carle
Reptiles
Mom's and Babies
And what else???
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