LITTLE GRIDS
School Years Memory Book
Kindergarten to Grade 5 — six school years of first days, favorites, and keepsakes, kept by your family
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School Years Memory Book
Kindergarten to Grade 5
Six school years go by faster than anyone warns you they will. This book keeps them — the first days and the last days, the favorites and the keepsakes, the small hand that grows a little every year — written down by your family, in the middle of the days as they happen.
One section for every year, kindergarten through grade five, each one following the same pages in the same order, so that when the last year is done the whole story sits side by side: same questions, same hand traced, six years apart.
This is your family's own keepsake. Nothing in it is measured, graded, or compared — it simply keeps what your years were, in your own words.
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How to Use This Book
This book works three ways, and every way holds the same pages. On your phone, tap any long box and type — what you type stays saved on your phone as you go. On your computer, click into the boxes and type the same way. Or print the pages you need and write by hand.
Work through one year at a time. Fill in the first-day pages when school starts, the favorites and learned pages whenever they come to mind, and the end-of-year pages when the year closes.
Every year also holds pages made for print: the handprint page, where you trace your child's hand on paper at the start of the year and again at the end, and the first-day photograph page — its frame is left open for your own family's photograph.
There is no right order inside a year and no deadline. A page filled in late keeps the memory just as well.
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All About Our Family
Before the school years begin, here is the family who will walk through them — the names and places this whole book belongs to.
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Kindergarten — First Day
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Kindergarten — My First Day Words
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Kindergarten — My Favorites This Year
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Kindergarten — Things I Learned
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Kindergarten — My Handprint Page
Print this page, and trace your child's hand right on the paper — once in the first week of the year, and once again in the last week, in the second space below. Six years of these pages, side by side, show the growing better than any words.
the first week of the year
the last week of the year
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Kindergarten — End of the Year
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Kindergarten — Keepsakes We Saved
The drawings, notes, ribbons, and small treasures a school year leaves behind — here is where the story of each one is kept, even the ones too big or too fragile for any book.
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Grade 1 — First Day
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Grade 1 — My First Day Words
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Grade 1 — My Favorites This Year
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Grade 1 — Things I Learned
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Grade 1 — My Handprint Page
Print this page, and trace your child's hand right on the paper — once in the first week of the year, and once again in the last week, in the second space below. Six years of these pages, side by side, show the growing better than any words.
the first week of the year
the last week of the year
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Grade 1 — End of the Year
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Grade 1 — Keepsakes We Saved
The drawings, notes, ribbons, and small treasures a school year leaves behind — here is where the story of each one is kept, even the ones too big or too fragile for any book.
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Grade 2 — First Day
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Grade 2 — My First Day Words
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Grade 2 — My Favorites This Year
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Grade 2 — Things I Learned
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Grade 2 — My Handprint Page
Print this page, and trace your child's hand right on the paper — once in the first week of the year, and once again in the last week, in the second space below. Six years of these pages, side by side, show the growing better than any words.
the first week of the year
the last week of the year
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Grade 2 — End of the Year
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Grade 2 — Keepsakes We Saved
The drawings, notes, ribbons, and small treasures a school year leaves behind — here is where the story of each one is kept, even the ones too big or too fragile for any book.
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Grade 3 — First Day
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Grade 3 — My First Day Words
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Grade 3 — My Favorites This Year
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Grade 3 — Things I Learned
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Grade 3 — My Handprint Page
Print this page, and trace your child's hand right on the paper — once in the first week of the year, and once again in the last week, in the second space below. Six years of these pages, side by side, show the growing better than any words.
the first week of the year
the last week of the year
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Grade 3 — End of the Year
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Grade 3 — Keepsakes We Saved
The drawings, notes, ribbons, and small treasures a school year leaves behind — here is where the story of each one is kept, even the ones too big or too fragile for any book.
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Grade 4 — First Day
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Grade 4 — My First Day Words
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Grade 4 — My Favorites This Year
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Grade 4 — Things I Learned
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Grade 4 — My Handprint Page
Print this page, and trace your child's hand right on the paper — once in the first week of the year, and once again in the last week, in the second space below. Six years of these pages, side by side, show the growing better than any words.
the first week of the year
the last week of the year
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Grade 4 — End of the Year
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Grade 4 — Keepsakes We Saved
The drawings, notes, ribbons, and small treasures a school year leaves behind — here is where the story of each one is kept, even the ones too big or too fragile for any book.
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Grade 5 — First Day
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Grade 5 — My First Day Words
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Grade 5 — My Favorites This Year
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Grade 5 — Things I Learned
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Grade 5 — My Handprint Page
Print this page, and trace your child's hand right on the paper — once in the first week of the year, and once again in the last week, in the second space below. Six years of these pages, side by side, show the growing better than any words.
the first week of the year
the last week of the year
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Grade 5 — End of the Year
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Grade 5 — Keepsakes We Saved
The drawings, notes, ribbons, and small treasures a school year leaves behind — here is where the story of each one is kept, even the ones too big or too fragile for any book.
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A Letter to You
One page for you, the grown-up keeping this book, to write straight to your child — the words you would want them to find here someday, written while these school years are still unfolding.
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Looking Back
Grade five is done, and the book is full — six first days, six traced hands, six years of favorites and keepsakes. This last page is yours: the whole stretch of it, seen from the far end.
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Our School Years — Kindergarten to Grade 5
This book holds the school years of
who walked from kindergarten to grade five while our family kept these pages —
Kept with love, year by year, by our family.
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