Week 4: School Days
Welcome to Week #4 of the Life Book Challenge!
If you have just found us, feel free to jump right in and go back as you have time and finish the other pages we have done together.
Before we begin with our School Days pages this week, I just wanted to remind you that while we are running this as a challenge, you are making YOUR book, so I want you to put whatever you want in your book. If it takes you 4 pages to tell about a certain part of your subject's life, by all means, get those stories told! We are here to offer suggestions and guidance as we do this together. Please make these pages with a picture in the back of your mind of your grandchildren and great grandchildren reading this book someday in the far off future, and tell the stories and scrap the pages you want them to have.
Now then, let's talk about School Days! Every time I see the words “School Days”, I can't stop humming, “School Days. School Days. Dear old golden rule days.” That's the feeling of nostalgia I get when I scrap school days memories. You may be feeling nostalgic, too, as you think about one room school houses and McGuffey readers, or “Dick and Jane” or maybe you are scrapping your children's school days that may have very different memories of big 80s hair or neon Crayolas. In any event, many of the memories are the same – new school supplies in the Fall, friends, text books and new shoes.
I was VERY fortunate to be able to find a picture online of the school my Dad went to! And thankfully, my grandmother kept everything, so I have in my collection school pictures of my Dad and his brothers and sisters from the 1943-44 school year which made for a really great layout for my Dad's Life Book.
(Click on images to see larger versions in the gallery.)
I wanted to include my Dad's school memories, so I did a two page spread and included the journaling from my interview with him on the second page. I added another school photo at the bottom to break up the monotony of all the journaling.
My Dad's cousin, Millie went to the same school, so I did a similar layout for her life book using the same picture.
My favorite school layout, though, is this companion page from Millie's book. My cousin took his mom to a school reunion and someone had a picture of Millie's class when she was a little girl going to a one room school house. He managed to get a copy of the picture and sent it to me to use on this page. Millie was so thrilled to see that picture as she had never seen it before.
I was able to find websites about many remaining one room school houses in the U.S. by Googling. If your subject went to a one room school (or even a more modern school) you may just find a photo on line you can use.
If you don't have any photos of the school, look for a photo of your subject when they were school aged to include on your pages. If they are alive and you interviewed them (or are interviewing them as you go as I am doing), find out what they remember about their school days. Write those memories down to preserve them. Ask them what classes they remember. Who were their teachers? What did they have for their lunch? How did they get to school (up hill both ways in a snow storm?
) Do they have any special memories? Did they win the spelling bee? Did they marry their school days sweetheart? Do any school projects stand out in their mind? Those are the details that make an interesting page.
I have run into a brick wall with my Great Great Grandfather. The earliest photo of him is when he was a teenager. I know very little about his childhood except what I have learned from census records, regarding where he lived, etc. Then I had an idea. The census records tell what district he lived in as a child. I went to the website for the county he lived in and asked in the forums on GenWeb if anyone knew anything about the schools in the area around the Civil War, and where he might have gone to school. I'm hoping that someone might have some information for me based on what I know.
If your information and photos are limited, do some research on the type of schooling your subject would have had. The internet is full of information that you can use. If you don't have many pictures, I have some school themed sets with ephemera and elements that will make your pages come alive...
I have made a jam packed word art set for you which includes a School Days overlay, a page frame, a tag, titles and much more. You can find it in the store here...
There there is the School Days Element Set...
And, I also have a School Days Life Book Quick Page that is available in both 12 x 12 and 8 x 10 for your scrapping needs...
School Days Life Book Quick Page in 8 x 10
There are other School Themed Kits in the store - just type "school" in the search box to see everything Heritage Scrap has to offer.
So that's it. If you have any questions, or would like to discuss anything, please feel free to post in this thread.
Please post your layouts to the Life Book – Week #4 School Days Gallery by about 8:45 pm PT (just before the Chat) on Monday night, October 18th. Then we'll see you at the chat at 9 pm PT. Just go to the Heritage Scrap Chat Room - http://www.heritagescrap.com/Lets_Chat/
Have a great week and I can't wait to see that gallery start filling up!
If you have just found us, feel free to jump right in and go back as you have time and finish the other pages we have done together.
Before we begin with our School Days pages this week, I just wanted to remind you that while we are running this as a challenge, you are making YOUR book, so I want you to put whatever you want in your book. If it takes you 4 pages to tell about a certain part of your subject's life, by all means, get those stories told! We are here to offer suggestions and guidance as we do this together. Please make these pages with a picture in the back of your mind of your grandchildren and great grandchildren reading this book someday in the far off future, and tell the stories and scrap the pages you want them to have.
Now then, let's talk about School Days! Every time I see the words “School Days”, I can't stop humming, “School Days. School Days. Dear old golden rule days.” That's the feeling of nostalgia I get when I scrap school days memories. You may be feeling nostalgic, too, as you think about one room school houses and McGuffey readers, or “Dick and Jane” or maybe you are scrapping your children's school days that may have very different memories of big 80s hair or neon Crayolas. In any event, many of the memories are the same – new school supplies in the Fall, friends, text books and new shoes.
I was VERY fortunate to be able to find a picture online of the school my Dad went to! And thankfully, my grandmother kept everything, so I have in my collection school pictures of my Dad and his brothers and sisters from the 1943-44 school year which made for a really great layout for my Dad's Life Book.
(Click on images to see larger versions in the gallery.)
I wanted to include my Dad's school memories, so I did a two page spread and included the journaling from my interview with him on the second page. I added another school photo at the bottom to break up the monotony of all the journaling.
My Dad's cousin, Millie went to the same school, so I did a similar layout for her life book using the same picture.
My favorite school layout, though, is this companion page from Millie's book. My cousin took his mom to a school reunion and someone had a picture of Millie's class when she was a little girl going to a one room school house. He managed to get a copy of the picture and sent it to me to use on this page. Millie was so thrilled to see that picture as she had never seen it before.
I was able to find websites about many remaining one room school houses in the U.S. by Googling. If your subject went to a one room school (or even a more modern school) you may just find a photo on line you can use.
If you don't have any photos of the school, look for a photo of your subject when they were school aged to include on your pages. If they are alive and you interviewed them (or are interviewing them as you go as I am doing), find out what they remember about their school days. Write those memories down to preserve them. Ask them what classes they remember. Who were their teachers? What did they have for their lunch? How did they get to school (up hill both ways in a snow storm?
) Do they have any special memories? Did they win the spelling bee? Did they marry their school days sweetheart? Do any school projects stand out in their mind? Those are the details that make an interesting page.I have run into a brick wall with my Great Great Grandfather. The earliest photo of him is when he was a teenager. I know very little about his childhood except what I have learned from census records, regarding where he lived, etc. Then I had an idea. The census records tell what district he lived in as a child. I went to the website for the county he lived in and asked in the forums on GenWeb if anyone knew anything about the schools in the area around the Civil War, and where he might have gone to school. I'm hoping that someone might have some information for me based on what I know.
If your information and photos are limited, do some research on the type of schooling your subject would have had. The internet is full of information that you can use. If you don't have many pictures, I have some school themed sets with ephemera and elements that will make your pages come alive...
I have made a jam packed word art set for you which includes a School Days overlay, a page frame, a tag, titles and much more. You can find it in the store here...
There there is the School Days Element Set...
And, I also have a School Days Life Book Quick Page that is available in both 12 x 12 and 8 x 10 for your scrapping needs...
School Days Life Book Quick Page in 8 x 10
There are other School Themed Kits in the store - just type "school" in the search box to see everything Heritage Scrap has to offer.
So that's it. If you have any questions, or would like to discuss anything, please feel free to post in this thread.
Please post your layouts to the Life Book – Week #4 School Days Gallery by about 8:45 pm PT (just before the Chat) on Monday night, October 18th. Then we'll see you at the chat at 9 pm PT. Just go to the Heritage Scrap Chat Room - http://www.heritagescrap.com/Lets_Chat/
Have a great week and I can't wait to see that gallery start filling up!
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