“Friday Letters”
Each Friday have your students write to
their parents sharing what they have learned during the week along with any
special highlights that occurred. Students
can also communicate with their parents by sharing their behavior and academics
for the week in the “Friday Letter”. This unedited
piece of writing is meant to help students think about the week’s learning
while practicing written language skills. Students
should be 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 the teacher or aide can scribe for the child.
Some
suggested sentence starters are listed below.
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 SOME fundamentals of writing. Please focus on these throughout the year:
Capitals
Complete sentences
Cursive writing
Grammar
Indenting paragraphs
Periods
Spelling
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