WILD books

Okay, first and foremost, this original idea was not mine! I found it here a long time ago! :-) I have called my take home folders BEE books until this year.  Then, the zebra-print theme took over my entire teaching life! So I changed the name to W(what)   I   L(look at)  D(daily) WILD books. I've tried several different folders/binders over the years, but as you know nothing is child-proof! LOL I liked using binders because they were easiest to add/subtract papers from, but the kids also lost pages from them easily because they would rip out.  My favorite (so far) are the hard plastic folders with two pockets and then prongs in the middle.  Wal-Mart puts them on sale for $0.75 before school starts so I stock up! I like them all to be the same color so I bought 40 purple plastic folders. In my WILD books, I put "left at home" and "right back to school" stickers on the pockets.

In the right back to school pocket is where we keep our Learning Logs.  At the end of each day, the kiddos write down one thing we did at school that day and color their behavior square.  There is also a column for the parents to sign and for me or the parents to write a little note/comment.  If the student ends up on yellow, orange or red, I always write a short note there to let the parents know what happened.



I use a pencil pouch in the front for any notes or money (lunch money, book orders, etc.)

I also have page protectors in the middle labeled for "Homework", "Schedule", "Menus" and "Book-It".

I have only had 3 WILD books lost in the last three years! I have had to replace a few due to them breaking in one way or another, but not many.  The students are really good about bringing them back to school each day and most of my parents sign them each night! When the students come in each morning they turn them into this super cute box.  

I just do a quick check each morning and give them back to the students.  I really like using the WILD books and feel like they make home-to-school communication easier! 

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