Newsletter
A teacher at my school, who started the same year I did, wrote a newspaper to her parents every six weeks, to give them a heads up about what is going on in her class, as well as due dates and any extra-curricular activities that were going on at school.
I was always jealous of her ability to spend so much time and obvious effort on something that I now know is very easy to do. The fact that I teach many more classes than she did no longer seems like such a barrier to my ability to make easy, quick, and thoughtful parent contact that I believe the parents would appreciate.
My plan now is to be sure to have something similar to the newsletter I worked on today ready for Open House on Monday. We will have to see if that works out.
My other plan is to have my students write short pieces for the newsletter, and each six weeks focus on a different student's work, or contact the clubs and organizations on campus and have my students make a newsletter or brochure that the front office could offer to prospective students.
posted by Ms. Boydstun @ 4:23 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
I send home a science newsletter (I am the science teacher) each week. I uses Pages on the Mac and it is SUPER easy! I started last year and my Principal actually requested that I continue them and added it in our CIP. My parents LOVE it!
Newsletter...
I think having a newspaper every six weeks is a wonderful idea. Not just the teacher doing the work, but getting the kids to write pieces and having them feel ownership in this production is definitely worth its while!
Charisse
It was my intention to send home an English Language Arts newsletter every at the end of every six weeks to prepare parents for the next six weeks. However, now I think it would probably be more helpful for the students.
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