How late is too late?

I haven't really thought about how I will handle contacting parents.
For example, some teachers tell parents they don't always get a chance to check their emails on the weekends. Some teachers don't reply to emails if it is after they go home for the evening. Some teachers don't call parents back after the student or child goes to bed. Some parents say they'll get back to them within the next 24 or 48 hours. What about texts? And I don't know how I feel about it....


I want parents to know that I welcome them, I care about their children, and I'm hear if they need to talk... but then I need the parents to understand I have a life/family too. I think their defenately needs to be guidlines but... it'll be a fine line.

The email thing will be easy to clear up, because I can't check my school mail on my home computer. But phone calls? I think if they call after their child is in bed it must mean it is private enough that they needed to wait until the child was asleep. But then again... I go to bed early 10 ish...

I don't know maybe I'll figure out more later

"A gift for me?"

I'm sitting here reading The First DAys of School by Wong and Wong and read this fun idea I thought I would post.

Supposedly the parents of 25 out of 30 students came to Back-toSChool Night. Some parents explained that their children said they just had to come to get their presents.

What was there present?

It was a letter (that I would have the kids either type or handwrite)

Dear Mom,
Thank you for careing about me and talking the time to come and learn about my class. We have been learning about a young girl named Sadako who bravelt faught leukemia. She believed in good-luck signs. The crane was one sign, a symbol of peace and dreams come true. Here is a crane  made especially for you. With it, I wish you love, peace and everlasting happiness. I love you! Love.....   ,

Then there was an orgami crane the kids had made.

Brown Bag Lunch

Wednesday was brown bag lunch for second grade. \

Brown bag lunch is when parents can bring and enjoy lunch with their children after they attend a 20 minute meeting with the teachers.

In this meeting the teachers remind the parents to read everything in the Friday folders. Teachers put information about what they are doing in school and it is a great way for them to become involved in their education at home. The teachers also talk about language to use with the children when they bring stuff home. For example, when I went to school we used barrowing and carrying over but now we use regrouping. The teachers also discussed how much children benefit from reading with their parents.

Actually a lot of the stuff they talked about in regards to reading we discussed in our monthly class. It was interesting to here how teachers worded and phrased what we read in the book.