Yearbooks - what grade?

[luvmagoldn]

I didn't get - and wasn't offered - a yearbook until 7th grade (jr high). The boys' school sent home order forms for yearbooks - for kindergarteners?

Did your elementary school have yearbooks? What grade were you in when you first got one?

[LoveTrains]

Yes I had yearbooks in elementary school.

[h]

I got yearbooks for preschool through 12. But I went to the same private school for all 14 years, and they just produced one yearbook that covered all grades.

[Deleted]

I'm like the OP, I never got one until 7th grade. I'm not sure I'd want to keep one from every year. Having 6 is bad enough. But I'm not sentimental about high school at all.

I also have a scrapbook of all my elementary school photos I made for a project in jr. high so...there's that.

But if they are cheap why not?

[luvmagoldn]

Based on these responses I'm wondering if my school offered them but my parents didn't tell me.

Hmmmm...

Edited because I seriously cannot spell today!

[Deleted]

We had them in elementaary school but they weren't the nice hard cover ones of junior/high school. They were paper covered with about 15 pages.

[mbcdefg]

We had a yearbook in grammar school, but only the eighth graders got one right before graduation. It was a softcover book and the yearbook staff was all eighth graders.

I got a (hardcover) yearbook in each year of high school.

I would buy one as long as they're not expensive.

[luvmagoldn]

$26 each. I guess that's cheap enough?

[dexteroni]

We only had class pictures from kindergarten through fourth grade. Yearbooks started in fifth grade.

Totally get it if it's available! There will be cute pics of your LO.

[hopenotlost]

In the States, I didn't get the option for a yearbook (that I remember). However, overseas in the DoDDS school system, they had them. I got one in 5th grade, mainly because my dad was a teacher in the school and he wanted one. I got one from 5th grade on up.

[geneg]

I have two from 1st and 2nd grade because I went to a K-12 school. Let's just say that I rocked the Dorothy Hamill look. We moved, so I don't have any more from there. I didn't go to a school that offered yearbooks again until high school.

[SJ]

I got yearbooks every year from 6th grade (beginning of middle school) through senior year of college.

[Deleted]

One in sixth grade and then 7-12.

[littlemermaid]

I started getting them in 1st grade. I think for Kindergarten I only got a class photo.

My son started getting one starting in Kindergarten. My daughter started getting them in preschool.

[definitelyO]

I remember getting them starting in junior high. paper backed one and not hard bound. DS got his for kindergarten - it was cute!

[wannabe]

i never got a yearbook in elementary school on the west coast. when we lived in MD, both schools offered them.

[DarcyLongfellow]

I always assumed this was a public school vs. private school thing.

I was in public school for elementary school, and we didn't have yearbooks.

We moved and I was in private school in middle school, and the school had on yearbook that was for all grades (preschool through 12th grade).

[dragonfly08]

I don't remember if my elementary school had them, it was a LONG time ago. Jr. High and High School did. I've long since tossed them all and don't regret it.

My DDs elementary school does offer them. We bought one for DD #1 in first grade (she didn't attend K there) since I heard from other parents "everybody does it." Yeah, not so much, plus she doesn't even look at hers, so we haven't bought one since.

[Deleted]

I think we started them in high school. I don't know, I didn't have many friends so I never ordered them.

They do have them in elementary school now but I have not ordered them. I will, once the kids start asking me to, I guess. They don't know they exist at this point.

[agnes]

Had them from K-12. But I don't remember getting them every year for elementary school.

[momof2boys]

I didn't get them until high school. But my kids school sent home an order form as soon as they hit kindergarten. I didn't order one that year b/c money was tight and it just didn't seem like something we needed. I ordered one last year and am glad I did. They are cute and i'm sure it will be fun to look back on in several years. That said, I only ordered one even though I have two kids. Its the exact same yearbook and seemed silly to order two. I could regret that decision in 15 years when they move out if they both decide they want to keep the yearbooks though

[Deleted]

My tiny school started them when I was in maybe 2nd grade. My kids get them/are in them from preschool on...but their school goes P-8th grade.

[brooklyn]

I got them starting in 5th grade.

[mie]

Yearbooks in kindergarten.

I was in 2nd grade when my elementary school started producing a yearbook and I've kept all of them

[luvmagoldn]

Mom of 2 - that's the thing. I feel the need to order one for each twin for when they are older. Then when #3 starts elementary I have to buy 3? That's $78 a year on yearbooks they may or may not care about.

Argh!

[jenny1223]

I remember them in elementary school but not until 4th grade or so. Maybe my mom just didn't order them when I was younger.

[EmilieMadison]

Yes, I had a yearbook starting in kindergarten.
My kids school, too. I've never heard of not offering a yearbook, actually.

[EmilieMadison]

Oct 16, 2012 13:59:56 GMT -5 SJ said:

I got yearbooks every year from 6th grade (beginning of middle school) through senior year of college.

Really? Did they use the ID photos? LOL!

[polarbearfans]

My first was kindergarten