Kindergarten Routine: Take Home Folder

Today, the Cottontails were given their green Take Home Folder.  I typically send home Take Home Folder's during the 2nd week of school, but this class seemed eager and excited to start this routine from day one.  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 green 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.  Please be sure your child's backpack is large enough to zip up while carrying the Take Home Folder and any other necessary school supplies.

Cottontail Communicator

I will continue to keep open communication with you via regular blog updates and personal emails.  Beginning next week, I will also communicate classroom events 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 place for you to add with quick comments, questions, and concerns, and a great way for me 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's "Left at Home side" on a daily basis and return it back to school every morning.  Anything on the "Right Back to School side" may require some home attention and then be returned to school.  Items on this side may include:  homework, paperwork, book orders, etc.  This folder a great tool that we will utilize everyday to aid your child in their growing independence, responsibility, and success.