Friday Homework

Friday Journal

 Dear Parents,

Each Friday, your child will write to you in this Home/School Journal telling you about his/her week. Please respect that it is an unedited piece of writing, where the purpose is both to help your child think about the week’s learning, and to communicate with you. It will be your homework to respond to your child by writing a letter back to him/her in the journal. It is your child’s responsibility to bring the journal back to school each Monday (or when there is a Monday holiday, it is due back on Tuesday).

Some suggested sentence starters are listed, for both you and your child. I’m hoping that this will be an effective way to increase your child’s communication about school, and to keep you informed of progress and/or concerns.

I’m hoping you’ll enjoy this as well!

Sincerely,

Ms.shoemake

For parents:

I noticed

I was proud of

I’m concerned about

I hope you’ll remember to

I think

I don’t understand

I was surprised

It seems like

I love the way

Please try to

I’m very excited about

Feel free to use your own ideas!

Our format is a minimum of 3 good sentences and one good question for the first month, after that we will expand to 2 good paragraphs)

For students:

This week I learned

I did very well

What was most important to me was

I’m very proud of

I am confused about

I still need to work on

I wish you would look at

I was surprised

I’m not sure

I love the way

The hardest thing