2.

Parent-Teacher Communication

As I mentioned earlier, in my classroom I plan on sending home a “classroom newsletter”

every Friday. I decided on this idea since I felt a “progress report” would convey a constant check
on the students’ progress with their academic work which is important, but in kindergarten I feel
it is more beneficial to send home information to the parents about what will be happening in the
school in the next few weeks, and also what the previous week has looked like. I also feel that
positive comments about each student would promote kindness classroom and always serve as a
“good report card” to parents about their child that week. As I have learned, sometimes parents
really need to hear those positive comments about their students since they could not hear them a
lot. I think this will go a long way in establishing positivity in many areas of my students lives.
In this newsletter, I am encouraging communication between the teacher and the parent.
At the bottom of the page, I have included a section that the parent can tear off, sign, and write in
any comments or questions that they have, and I will respond to them. This will ensure that the
parents are reading it by requiring their signature, and it also will allow them to give me weekly
feedback or ask questions frequently. I have learned that often the hardest steps for parents is
initiating the contact with a teacher, so I want to eliminate any hesitations by providing the
opportunity for my parents to contact me each week. This concept will be thoroughly managed as
I will be sending this sheet out every Friday without question, so parents will expect this and it
will facilitate consistent, weekly communication throughout the year. As a teacher, I will commit
to this since I have made the promise to my students and teachers, and that is something I take
seriously. Below is an example of the newsletter I will send home to parents each Friday.

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 Miss La Rue’s Classroom Newsletter

This week in Kindergarten:

We had a very busy week in kindergarten!
We went on a field trip to the middle school
where we were able to see the different
science projects students had created! It
sparked many science ideas that we
discussed as a class. We also began are unit
on animal writing and each student will be
writing a book about their animal that they
chose, and we will share these at
conferences! Each student has a different Upcoming Events:
animal, and in this writing, we are focusing
Monday, September 25th – Class
on capitalization and writing in complete
Picture Day – Bring your best smile!
sentences. Our students are pumped for
animal writing! At the end of this week ee
finished our unit on the alphabet and now
Wednesday, October 3rd – Late Start
every student understands each letter and (for teacher training)
sound of the alphabet. We all sang along to
the alphabet song as a class this week! We Monday, October 8th- Friday, October
have some pretty cool kindergarteners! 12th – Conference week, students will
be dismissed at 11:45. (please email
Miss La Rue if you have not received a
conference time yet)

Friday, October 20th – Kindergarten

Music Performance – 6:00 p.m. in the
elementary school gym

Tuesday, October 23rd – Field Trip to

Local Museum (details to follow)

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(BACK OF NEWSLETTER)
Miss La Rue’s Classroom Superstars:
Our kindness jar was filled to the top this week! Here are the compliments
the students wrote about each other this week! As a reminder, the
comments next to each students’ name is the compliment an anonymous
student in the class wrote about them!

Joey: Joey is always kind to me at recess. We played baseball, it was fun!

Kaitlin: Kaitlin always says good morning to me!

Jesse: Jesse always smiles at me when I get to school each day!

Madeline: Madeline helped me find my book when I lost it!

Casey: Casey walked me to the office when I needed a band-aid!

Ivy: Ivy gave me her extra jacket since I forgot mine at home!

Jordan: Jordan included me during the class game which made me happy!

Kelsey: Kelsey helped me clean up the milk I spilled at lunch!

Joshua: Joshua told me he liked my shoes and it made me smile!

Please cut at the line above and return the bottom to class by next Friday.

Parent Signature:________________________________________

Comments, Questions, or Concerns for Miss La Rue:

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_____________________________________ ____________________
_________________________________________________________

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 References

Evertson, C., & Emmer, E. (2017). Classroom management for elementary teachers. New York,
NY: Pearson