GREAT question! I am also a Title teacher and would love to hear what other districts do for their parent meetings. Here are just a few of the ideas we have done for our k-6 building:
- pajama night meeting: ppt show showing coaching strategies for parents to help their struggling readers at home, while the students were in the gym with high school student volunteers and an adult doing various book activities; we all then met back in the gym for a snack and door prizes - Dr. Seuss night: parent and students met in the gym with silly hats, shared quotes about reading (with music) in a ppt show on the big screen as families arrived; we had a few student groups perform poems or Reader's Theater, read aloud Horton Hears a Who with the illustrations on the big screen; ended with snacks and door prizes - We have had similar evenings with other authors (Robert Munsch, Jan Brett) - they have great web sites for resources - had a parent luncheon (soups, fruit, rolls), shared the Parent Policy, discussed any questions and/or concerns, visited - some parents were surprised (disappointed) that their child did not get to come and eat lunch with them at our parent meeting, as our events had always included the children because they were in the evening... Polar Express night: chair were organized in a train; students were given train tickets for admittance (later used for prize drawings); a teacher volunteer was the train conductor; we served hot chocolate on the train as we listened to and watched the book as a ppt show. Closed the evening with prize drawings. I would love to hear other ideas as ours are getting repetitive and we are having a difficult time coordinating events for the students, while we also meet with the parents. Thanks, - Sue On 4/14/10 6:52 PM, "Jeanne Crider" <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope I'm sending this to the right place. > > I'm a reading specialist and wondered if anyone has ideas for parent meetings > for Title I Reading? We always struggle to come up with something meaningful > for parents. I work with K-2 but we are wanting ideas for K-5. > > Thanks, > Jeanne > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
