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I am a half day preschool teacher. I provide a daily letter home letting parents know what we did for that day. I also provide a monthly newsletter containing important information. I want to find a daily communication template letting parents know how their individual child was during the day.
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If you send a note home for every child every day you're setting yourself up for a LOT of work, especially if you're only there half a day. Do you mean just how their mood was, toileting, snack, that sort of thing? I've included some links to what I think you're looking for.
If I were you, I would make my own. I didn't do a daily one for preschoolers, but when I taught toddlers, we sent home a note something along the lines of "Today Mary was really busy in the block area. She and Johnny built an airplane. I really loved watching them share the blocks and engage in this play together." Things like that. Just a few sentences. We didn't send every child a note every day, but we wrote about 3-5 notes each day and kept track of who had one and who didn't. If the child did something spectacularly interesting or something, we might send an extra note.
Another option is to have communication notebooks. They keep them in their backpacks. Give them to you each day. You check to see if parents wrote anything to you. Answer if needed. Write a note in some of the notebooks every day, or as many as you have time for. Then the notebook goes back in the backpack and goes home each day.
Another idea for saving paper and time: If you want parents to know what was going on at school each day, how about getting a big dry erase board. Make permanent sections for each area like "music, Art, Blocks, Dramatic Play": whatever is most important to you. Then each day you can write in "We sang X" or "We did marble painting." Even have a circle time just before going home and ask the kids to tell you what to put. Post the dry erase board where parents can see it.
If you send a note home for every child every day you're setting yourself up for a LOT of work, especially if you're only there half a day. Do you mean just how their mood was, toileting, snack, that sort of thing? I've included some links to what I think you're looking for.
If I were you, I would make my own. I didn't do a daily one for preschoolers, but when I taught toddlers, we sent home a note something along the lines of "Today Mary was really busy in the block area. She and Johnny built an airplane. I really loved watching them share the blocks and engage in this play together." Things like that. Just a few sentences. We didn't send every child a note every day, but we wrote about 3-5 notes each day and kept track of who had one and who didn't. If the child did something spectacularly interesting or something, we might send an extra note.
Another option is to have communication notebooks. They keep them in their backpacks. Give them to you each day. You check to see if parents wrote anything to you. Answer if needed. Write a note in some of the notebooks every day, or as many as you have time for. Then the notebook goes back in the backpack and goes home each day.
Another idea for saving paper and time: If you want parents to know what was going on at school each day, how about getting a big dry erase board. Make permanent sections for each area like "music, Art, Blocks, Dramatic Play": whatever is most important to you. Then each day you can write in "We sang X" or "We did marble painting." Even have a circle time just before going home and ask the kids to tell you what to put. Post the dry erase board where parents can see it.
How did you prepare your toddler for preschool?
bubbliebub
I'm more interested in how you got your child prepared for the structure and rules they will have to follow at school.
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Preschool teaches the structure and rules they'll need for school, the preparation you need is more in terms of preparing your child to leave you. If your child already attends a church daycare, is babysat by relatives, etc. and is okay, then your little one should be fine.
But, if your child cries and clings and you've never been apart since birth, you may want to work on that. Practice by leaving your little one with dad or another familiar adult first, get on eye level and say, "I love you, you'll have lots of fun and Mommy will be back to pick you up." Give a hug and walk out the door. Do not draw out the goodbye. Go to run an errand so you're not hearing the crying. Come back in an hour (less than that doesn't give the child time to calm down and forget you) with lots of hugs and kisses saying, "I told you I would be back, now tell me the fun things you did." Do not tell your little one how much you missed her and get weepy upon your return or departure. You may need to repeat the process several times over the course of a couple weeks, just be consistent with departures and returns. When your child is comfortable being left with another adult for 2-3 hours at your home, then drop your child off with the same adult at their home so they are in an unfamiliar environment.
If separation isn't your problem, then I'd suggest touring the school with your child a week before her start date and talk about all the fun things you see the big kids doing. Play up that she's a big kid now and how proud of her you are. For my oldest, we bought him a special Thomas the Tank backpack to wear to school, in which we packed his familiar cuddly blanket for nap time. For my daughter, we played up how she was now going to get to go to school like her big brother and cousins and that she would have to listen to her teacher to learn to do the fun things there.
Preschool teaches the structure and rules they'll need for school, the preparation you need is more in terms of preparing your child to leave you. If your child already attends a church daycare, is babysat by relatives, etc. and is okay, then your little one should be fine.
But, if your child cries and clings and you've never been apart since birth, you may want to work on that. Practice by leaving your little one with dad or another familiar adult first, get on eye level and say, "I love you, you'll have lots of fun and Mommy will be back to pick you up." Give a hug and walk out the door. Do not draw out the goodbye. Go to run an errand so you're not hearing the crying. Come back in an hour (less than that doesn't give the child time to calm down and forget you) with lots of hugs and kisses saying, "I told you I would be back, now tell me the fun things you did." Do not tell your little one how much you missed her and get weepy upon your return or departure. You may need to repeat the process several times over the course of a couple weeks, just be consistent with departures and returns. When your child is comfortable being left with another adult for 2-3 hours at your home, then drop your child off with the same adult at their home so they are in an unfamiliar environment.
If separation isn't your problem, then I'd suggest touring the school with your child a week before her start date and talk about all the fun things you see the big kids doing. Play up that she's a big kid now and how proud of her you are. For my oldest, we bought him a special Thomas the Tank backpack to wear to school, in which we packed his familiar cuddly blanket for nap time. For my daughter, we played up how she was now going to get to go to school like her big brother and cousins and that she would have to listen to her teacher to learn to do the fun things there.
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