Parent pleasers

Parent Teacher Conference forms and FREEBIES!

Aloha friends! Are you in end of the year mode yet? I am frantically making my lists and checking them twice trying to get everything in order before May 24th! My latest dilemma is what I will give to my parent volunteers, children's teachers and my second grade team!! Well I hit my favorite go to source Pinterest. I found some pretty cute ideas. Have you seen these? Source Source Source All super cute ideas!! I decided since my daughters have two teachers each I would just use the Treat one…

WOW! What an exhausting day!! We had school all day and parent teacher conferences this evening. I love my job, but it is days like this tha...

Welcoming Your New Parents {free gift tags}

Last night, was my 13th Meet the Teacher Night. I have been teaching first grade for 12 years and yet I still update and come up with new ideas every year. This year, I decided to give the parents water bottles as welcome gifts. You can snag the tags for free {here}. I get asked all the time about the font and it is a KG font called KG Why You Gotta Be So Mean. It is a bounce font, you need to hit the shift key for every other letter to create the bounce. I love all of KG's fonts and have…

This past week, we had our kindergarten night and open house. This was the first time we met our new, sweet students and their parents. As you may know, I moved from second grade to a kindergarten team teaching position. We wanted to make our 38 kindergarteners and their parents feel welcome and excited about their upcoming kindergarten year. I am going to share with you some easy and fun little gifts you can use to greet your new little ones and their families. We went with a happy rainbow…

Master art of teacher calling parents! Successful calls every time with this template for conversations with families. Free scripts for positive talks.

Immerse yourself in the power of partnership with "Fresh Ideas for Parent Involvement in the New School Year". This post is packed with creative, doable ways to engage parents and families in your classroom. From elementary-centric approaches to broader family involvement activities, this post charts the course for a year filled with robust collaboration. Discover a treasure trove of ideas aimed at fostering strong, meaningful partnerships. Visit the blog now to revolutionize parent…

It's hard to believe it's only the beginning of August and I'm already done with Meet and Greet, the first week of school, AND Open House! Wow! I wanted to share what I do for Meet and Greet and Open House! At my school, we begin the year with Meet and Greet during pre-planning as an informal event for our students and families to meet the teacher! Like I said, very informal! As a new teacher I used to stress TONS about this event and wanted my room to be absolutely perfect and LOTS and LOTS…