How to collect 5th grade yearbook quotes
Fifth-grade quotes are one short line from each graduating student, printed beside their portrait or on a 5th-grade page, in their own words. The easiest way to collect them is a simple Google Form with one prompt everyone answers.
Pick the prompt that suits your school from the ideas below. It works for any yearbook: the quotes are text, and they go wherever your 5th-grade pages are.
What’s included?
- A Google Form template (“Fifth Grade Quotes”) to copy into your Google account.
- Four prompt ideas and a ready-to-use structure. You decide which prompt fits.
Download link coming soon
What should fifth graders be asked?
Pick one prompt for the whole grade, so the page reads as a set:
- What do you hope to be when you grow up?
- Your favorite quote or saying
- Something you love about school
- Advice for younger students
One prompt for everyone is easier to lay out and fairer to read. A page where some children wrote a paragraph and others wrote a word draws attention to the difference.
How do I run it, step by step?
- Copy the form and set your school name, year and the prompt you chose.
- Add a length limit. Pick one that fits the space beside a portrait or in your quote layout, and put it in the question.
- Ask for the student’s name exactly as it appears on the class roster, plus their class, so each quote can be matched to the right child.
- Decide who fills it in. Either students complete it in class with their teacher, or families complete it at home. In-class tends to reach every child in the grade.
- Set a deadline before your photo seal date, so the quotes are in before page building starts.
- Chase the gaps. Compare responses against the 5th-grade roster and ask teachers about the missing names, the same way you’d track photo coverage.
- Read every quote before it goes in. Check the wording is appropriate and kind, and that a “favorite saying” isn’t a joke at someone’s expense.
- Proofread names against the roster, not against the form. Most yearbook complaints are about a misspelled name.
Where do the quotes go in the book?
Beside each portrait on the 5th-grade pages, or grouped on a quotes spread in the 5th-grade section. Either way, give them a slot on your ladder when you plan the book. In a typical elementary ladder, 5th grade already gets more pages than the other grades for panels, candids, baby photos and the promotion ceremony. See the example ladder →
What else goes well with quotes?
- Dedications: families celebrate their graduating child in every copy.
- Teacher statements: each teacher’s reflection on the year.
- Memory book activity: an in-class keepsake for every child, whether or not they buy a book.
- A 5th-grade memory book: what goes in a small printed book for a graduating class, and what it costs.
Their words.
In the book.
Rethink Yearbooks makes these resources free for any school. Every child is in the shared school pages, and families who choose personalization get pages built around their own child’s class and grade. See how it works for elementary schools →