communication

**First placement:**

My first placement teacher sends home a take-home folder to send home any papers that the students' parents need to see. In these, she includes the students' work for the week and any papers that the school sends out to parents. She also uses the take-home folders to send home any notes she needs the parents to see.

September 7, 2011


 * My teacher used the students' take-home folders to send home volunteer forms to parents asking each parent to send in a different food for a farm breakfast she was planning for the next Friday.

September 7, 2011


 * My teacher had to call one of the student's parents today because she continuously doesn't get her reading book signed. My teacher had already sent notes home that the mom did not respond to.

September 14, 2011


 * My teacher had to call the student's mother again because she still was not signing the student's reading log. The mom said she had a brain tumor and couldn't remember to sign it. My teacher began sending a post-it note home everyday with the child's other homework.

**Second placement:**

My second teacher also uses a take-home folder to send work home with the students and any letters the school needs to send to the parents. If the teacher has something that a parent needs to see more urgently she will send it home in the student's homework folder.

October 14, 2011


 * My teacher sent home letters and volunteer slips to parents in the students' take-home papers asking the parents to come in Friday, October 28 to help run pumpkin centers for the students where they would help the students do different activities with pumpkins.