SMASH!

What a fun journaling tool.  Smash notebooks are taking over our classroom - and it's fantastic.  The journals are fun, fancy and inexpensive.  There are also fun accessories to go along with the journals - providing more and more to write about.  Writing in a journal is an amazing skill and it can bring out the very best in what we write.  It's a place to write about ANYTHING and choose to share it - or keep it to yourself.  Journals provide places to keep things too.  Favorite postcards, tickets, coins, playing cards (from that cool poker game with your Grandpa!), stamps, lists, ideas, doodles, and ooOoOoOoH so much more.  You can stamp it, stick it, and write in it.  As a writing teacher, I'm thrilled to find something that has given reluctant writers a reason to perk up their ears and show interest.  That's a wonderful thing.  

Writing is serious business.  Sometimes.  =)

One of the best parts of journaling...they all have such different and amazing ideas, interests and thoughts.  How cool is that!?  

Deep in thought and concentrating completely.  A dreamy thing to see.