For our visits, we’d like to spend the most time looking at what your kids have enjoyed doing this year. This could be projects, inventions, activities that your children have enjoyed doing, creating and showing. If your child has a report to read out, a game to show us, a craft extravaganza that they want to display, whatever, we want to spend time focused on those things.
If you know of other things that show your child’s lessons and learning but are not all that ‘exciting’ for your child to show us, like workbooks, science/socials/math tests, reading lists, lists of physical activities, or even projects you are proud of but your child doesn’t really care about – these are the types of projects to show us separately, or give to us to peruse at a different time. We can go through those materials rather quickly without your child having to sit through that, or take away from something that is more fun. Other good things to share separately may be items that your child really likes to do but would take a very long time for your child to show every page/detail (like a phonics book).
We’d love to play games, listen to piano playing, have tours of the forts, watch a science experiment, listen to an oral report, talk about a diorama, see the trampoline tricks, whatever celebrates your child’s learning and made school interesting for him/her.
After our visits, I will update your child’s outcome pages and send you questions for things that I still need information about (sometime in the following weeks). Once I get your response, then I will update again and ask you to view the report card (which you can view at any time). At that point, you can let me know if I’ve missed anything else, or if it is fine as is.
This process is intended to allow us to focus more on the students during our visits and less on the specific outcomes to be covered in their ‘grade.’ Also, for our first year families, it will let us get to know your kids better and for you to know us better. :) Let's have fun!
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| Chatting with some girls in Zambia |
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| My mom and I hamming it up for the picture |
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| My cousin and I with a dinosaur :) |
