It was really exciting when we received our first parent response to the "Friday Letter"!!!!

“Friday Letter”

Each Friday, your students can write to their parents sharing what they have learned during the week along with any special highlights that occurred.  Students will communicate with their parents by sharing their behavior and academics for the week in a “Friday Letter”.  This unedited piece of writing is meant to help students think about the week’s learning while practicing written language skills. Students are given the freedom to choose what they would like to share in the letter as choice provides motivation to complete the letter each week.  

At the preschool and kindergarten level, the “Friday Letter” will need some modification.  Students may draw pictures that express events from their school week and/or a teacher or aide should scribe for the child.  

Some suggested sentence starters are listed below if needed. 

I am confused about

I did very well

I love the way

I still need to work on

I was surprised

I wish you would look at

I’m not sure

I’m very proud of

The hardest thing

This week I learned

What was most important to me was

Here are the fundamentals of writing. We will focus on these throughout the year:

capitals

complete sentences

cursive writing

grammar 

indenting paragraphs

periods

spelling