Writer's Notebooks

We are spending a lot of time writing in our notebooks.  These notebooks have a wide variety of writing samples and are used every single day in our classroom.  Recently, I found a new kind of journal called SMASH JOURNALS...they allow you to cram as much information and keepsakes into a single journal as humanly possible.  I love the idea and hope we can start to cram things into our writer's notebooks.  Tickets, postcards, scraps of paper, notes, stamps, stickers, photos, cards, labels, business cards, pamphlets, brochures, maps, coasters, sticky notes,and ANYTHING ELSE they find cool, interesting or relevant to their lives.  I'd like to start sending them home...so much to include!  Look for them!