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October 2009 Dealing With Parents
Love Notes from Parents Encourage Students’ Progress.
Idea by Roxane, Kindergarten Teacher, Somerville, Massachusetts:
When I meet with parents to confer about their child’s progress, I ask them to each write an encouraging love note to their child and place it in a small mailbox I have in my classroom for just that reason. At circle time, I read the letters aloud and we applaud each one. Because my students are eager for parents to write them letters, they nudge their parents to meet with me so conference attendance has increased.
After sharing each letter, I put the note in the yearly binder along with photos, monthly portraits, samples of work, love notes, etc., that I give to each child at the end of the year.
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