Wait, parent-teacher conferences are this week? YES! I hope everyone can make it. If you forgot your time, check PTCFast.com for a reminder.
We have had another great week. One of the highlights for us was our celebration for all of our students who made their Accelerated Reader (AR) goals! Congratulations again to those students. We have one more trimester, which means the kids have 1 more chance to challenge themselves by setting a reading goal!
We have had another great week. One of the highlights for us was our celebration for all of our students who made their Accelerated Reader (AR) goals! Congratulations again to those students. We have one more trimester, which means the kids have 1 more chance to challenge themselves by setting a reading goal!
Like I said in the title, parent-teacher conferences don't happen often enough. I definitely know that I haven't been doing the best job of keeping parents up-to-date of our class happenings. I hope to change that starting this last trimester! I want parents to not only be in-the-know of what is happening, I want them to be involved.
I have a plan to make this happen and it involves a variety of communication tools; Twitter, Remind101, and this blog.
1. Twitter: Not sure what Twitter is? It’s a FREE social networking site that allows people, classrooms, or schools to send updates, or “tweets”, to multiple followers. If you "follow" our class, you can get instant updates to your cell phone or computer! Updates are either a quick 1 sentence message, or a picture.
There are classrooms around the world that have experienced a lot of success communicating with parents, staff, and their community. If you don't have twitter, it's super simple to set up on your phone or computer. Here's how.
2. Remind 101: This is another great communication tool. Remind is a texting-based program where you can receive similar text-message updates from me (Mr. Larson), without ever exchanging cell-phone numbers. Just head to the Remind 101 website and search for my name to sign up. The thing I like about Remind 101 is that I can send individual people texts instead of everyone at once. Click on the link below to sign up!https://www.remind.com/join/mrlarson3
3. Weebly.com: I hope to be updating this once-a-week with specific details of what we are learning in class. You can then take those same skills to practice at home with your child.
Don't be left out of our classroom! I hope all parents choose 1 (or all) of these ways to stay involved with us.
Old style of communicating:
Parent:"What did you learn today in school?"
Child: "Nothing."
New style of communicating:
Parent: "Hey I saw today on Twitter that you were building circuits! Tell me more about that."
Child: "Well, first...."
Check back again soon for more.
"It takes a village to raise a child"
-Mr. Larson
I have a plan to make this happen and it involves a variety of communication tools; Twitter, Remind101, and this blog.
1. Twitter: Not sure what Twitter is? It’s a FREE social networking site that allows people, classrooms, or schools to send updates, or “tweets”, to multiple followers. If you "follow" our class, you can get instant updates to your cell phone or computer! Updates are either a quick 1 sentence message, or a picture.
There are classrooms around the world that have experienced a lot of success communicating with parents, staff, and their community. If you don't have twitter, it's super simple to set up on your phone or computer. Here's how.
2. Remind 101: This is another great communication tool. Remind is a texting-based program where you can receive similar text-message updates from me (Mr. Larson), without ever exchanging cell-phone numbers. Just head to the Remind 101 website and search for my name to sign up. The thing I like about Remind 101 is that I can send individual people texts instead of everyone at once. Click on the link below to sign up!https://www.remind.com/join/mrlarson3
3. Weebly.com: I hope to be updating this once-a-week with specific details of what we are learning in class. You can then take those same skills to practice at home with your child.
Don't be left out of our classroom! I hope all parents choose 1 (or all) of these ways to stay involved with us.
Old style of communicating:
Parent:"What did you learn today in school?"
Child: "Nothing."
New style of communicating:
Parent: "Hey I saw today on Twitter that you were building circuits! Tell me more about that."
Child: "Well, first...."
Check back again soon for more.
"It takes a village to raise a child"
-Mr. Larson