Back to School Parent Forms and MORE

Are you ready to have one of your BEST Years YET?

These Home and School Ready to Use Communication Forms to keep those parent teacher communication lines open, Strong and Resonate Classroom Community in a Positive Way are ready to print and use with your students and for YOU!

There are many frames you can use for conferences to handout to parents PLUS lost of other sheets to keep communication lines

You can choose which frames you might like to use for whatever purpose. I have my students draw a self portrait each report period and self-evaluate their progress for that timeframe. Parents LOVE to see the growth in the self portrait and we always get a giggle with what their child writes when filling out the self-evaluation form. I always start my conferences off with these 2 sheets somewhat like an ice breaker to ease into the conference.

Every Friday for writing usually right after lunch, we write our Weekend News. We brainstorm ideas and then the children choose a frame and fill it in to bring home. It is somewhat like a weekly newsletter from the students. However, each child fills the frame in with their personal thoughts etc. The children have taped these in a journal and the journal goes back and forth from home and school to communicate what going on in school. Parents may write a letter back to their child if they so choose and then before we write our next journal entry we share either our own writing or our parent/guardian’s writing. Some students have chosen to write to an aunt, uncle, sister or brother. Any way you use these forms, will definitely make communication between home and School easy and fun!

What is included in the complete resource:

♥ 7 different frames/checklists to use for data collection and parent communication during Parent Conferences or anytime (this is the Freebie SAMPLE, but also included in the paid resource.

♥ 3 different Daily News forms for children to fill in to inform parents of what they did in school that day.

♥ 7 different Friday Weekend Journal Frames for students to fill in to share what they learned that week in school. They are differentiated and can be used with individual students as needed.

♥ 4 frames for children’s self portraits to see fine motor growth as the year progresses.

♥ 1 frames for children to self-evaluate their progress during the year.

♥ A letter and sheet for parents to use to support their questions and concerns to hand out prior to a parent meeting or conference.

♥ 2 sheets to support teachers with notes for parent meetings or conferences.

♥ 8 Communication Binder cover and sheets to track parent communication.

♥ 1 idea sheet for portfolio evaluation writing ideas.

Ideas for Use Generic Frames:

♥As a spill over activity for early finishers.

♥At the end of the day for students to think about their work during the day and write about it to share with parents.

♥As part of your parent/teacher conferences to share more about each student.

♥As a writing activity and shared activity for your students to learn more about each other and favorite activities and such.

♥For YOU to learn more about your student’s likes and dislikes etc.

♥To show student growth.

♥In the Writing center or station to write about one day of the week.

♥As an informal evaluation to learn more about your students and include this in your data collection etc.

1 PDF file.