Tag: parent support

Home Support, New Teacher Tips

Top 5 Ways to Send A Weekly Classroom Newsletter

Sending home a weekly classroom newsletter to parents is a great way to connect with parents and keep them informed. However, it can be overwhelming to decide the best way to send it. Here are my top 5 recommendations of ways to send home a classroom newsletter. Click here to read about what to include in a classroom newsletter. 5.…

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Home Support, New Teacher Tips

What You Should Include in Your Weekly Parent Newsletter

If you’re required to send home a weekly newsletter to update parents on your classroom, you might be wondering what to include. Or, if you just want to keep your students’ parents in the loop, you might be trying to figure out what to say. Here are the top things I recommend including in newsletters to parents. Things to Remember…

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Home Support, Science

5 Ways Parents Can Help Their Children Think Like Scientists

How can parents develop their children’s science skills at home? We all know scientific thinking is important for helping children understand the world around them. Science isn’t all lab coats and experiments. It’s actually much simpler than that. Here are 5 ways parents can help their children and support science skills at home. Want a printable version of this list?…

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Home Support, Writing

Free At Home Parent’s Guide for Supporting Student Writing

Writing is important because it gives us the means to express ourselves. Parents often want to encourage their children to write, but aren’t sure how to help. Here are 6 ways parents can support their child’s writing development as well as a free printable support guide you can send home to parents. Why do parents need support? Parents often want…

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Home Support, Social Studies

How to Make Parents Understand Why Some “History” is History

To many parents, it might feel like history is being erased and changed. Many lessons and activities they loved and enjoyed are no longer taught: Columbus discovering America, Thanksgiving feasts reenacting the first Thanksgiving, and Martin Luther King Jr. “fixing” all racial discord in America. Here are 5 reasons we need to help parents understand why the way we teach…

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