New Routines: Take Home Folder

This first full week of school we will continue to build classroom routines.  As your child learns about new routines at school I want to introduce a “Back to School” blog segment titled “New Routines” to help you better get to know the routines we discuss at school.  On Monday, the Cottontails will be introduced to their red Take Home Folder and the enclosed Cottontail Communicator.  Below you will find information to help your child establish their own independence and responsibility with transporting their folder back and forth to school each day.

Take Home Folder

A red plastic folder has been established as your child’s Take Home Folder.  This folder needs to travel with them to and from school every day.  This will be one way to communicate between school and home.  Any notes can be sent inside the Take Home Folder or they can be written directly on the Cottontail Communicator found on the right side of your child’s Take Home Folder.  If you plan to send a note to school, fill your child in on the note – allowing them to act as a responsible messenger ensuring that your note makes its way to me.

Cottontail Communicator

I will keep open communication with you via regular blog updates, personal emails, and through our class’s weekly Cottontail Communicator.  On the Cottontail Communicator you will find classroom and school announcements, classroom activities, homework expectations and “due dates”, and suggested at-home activities for each week.  A new Cottontail Communicator will always go home with your child each Monday and should stay in your child’s Take Home Folder for that whole week.  Please make sure, with your child’s Take Home Folder, the Communicator travels back and forth to school daily.  In addition, it is a great way to provide you with quick comments, questions, and concerns, and a great way for you to do the same.

Please ask your child for this folder each evening as it may contain notes or handouts from me, homework, or completed schoolwork.  Be sure to empty the folder on a daily basis and return it back to school every morning.  This is a great tool that we will utilize everyday to aid your child in their growing independence, responsibility, and success.