![]() As you are well aware, teaching requires a comprehensive and accurate understanding of the material. One of the best ways to learn is by teaching someone else. I know what you are thinking: how can I expect all parents to know the correct answers to every question they ask? Well, they don’t need to. When children have to recall information in new situations - such as different locations (like home) or when prompted by different people (their parents) - those neural connections branch out and grow. When children are asked to recall information, they strengthen their neural connections about those topics. Reinforcing what students have already learned is incredibly beneficial for retention. This exercise only takes a few minutes of your time and parents’ time each week, but has lasting, powerful impacts on student success: The Power of Reinforcing So - with the new semester beginning - we challenge you to implement 5 Minute Fridays, and report back to us on how it’s going! To make it even more effortless, we’ll soon release templates for 5 Minute Fridays that you can access from within ParentSquare when you create a post. If you want to go above & beyond, include activities parents can do with their children to really engage parents and extend the learning day, as shown in the final example on this page. We will be reading “The Bear & the Piano” to study plotįeel free to ask your child questions about these topics! For example, ask “What is your favorite thing you learned about dinosaurs this week?”.Here are some things we will be learning next week: Here are a few things we learned this week: Unfortunately, I can’t share the clip-art or cute fonts with you but here is some super cute ones that you can find on TpT if you don’t just want to use Microsoft images.Happy Friday! As the week comes to an end, I wanted to share a bit about what we learned this week and what is to come. I am LOVING Babbling Abby’s fonts right now! The one I have in my newsletters (not going to lie I totally changed them before I posted because they are SO freaking cute!!!) are Babbling Whitney and Babbling Elizabeth (duh). It’s not going to look exactly like mine unless you have the same fonts that I do since it’s going to be opened in PowerPoint. Once you click that, click where you want to insert your text. In PowerPoint, this is what it looks like. If you are looking for an easy way to start using and sending newsletters, here is a template for you to start using! I made this as SIMPLE as I possibly could for you. Here is an example of what I will send home on a weekly basis to my parents. ![]() ![]() I tried sending my newsletter home on Friday that was for the following week. ![]() You can also include class birthdays and reminders for parents. It’s also a great way to inform parents of things that you are teaching in your classroom so they can be working on those skills at home as well. I had a principal tell me once that it’s always good to be ahead of the questions, and I feel like a newsletter is a great way to do that. Do you send a newsletter home to your parents? Hopefully, you do and if you don’t…then I think I can help you out! Newsletters are a great way to touch base with parents and let them know what is going on in your classroom and if you send it consistently on the same day, then they know to expect it and it helps alleviate your inbox from being over run.
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