End of the School Year Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I am linking up with some awesome Southern California teachers to talk about the wonderful place that we live. Southern California is great! We have the best weather and some pretty amazing places to visit. 

During the summer you can always find me at the beach or pool. I just love the summer and the sun!

Another favorite place for us to go is Disneyland. My husband works there so we go a lot whenever I am not in school.  We love to go on our own and with our family and friends!

My husband and I also just enjoy being together! We always create a bucket list of things we want to do during the summer. This year a couple of the places we have on the list are the Getty and the Huntington Library. 

Well now lets get to the fun stuff! Click on the link below to head over to my freebie for you. Then make sure that you visit all of the other blogs and see what their favorite things to do in Southern California. Also make sure to collect their great freebies!

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2gether we are better: Parent Communication

Today I am linking up with Ashley from Schroeder Shenanigans in 2nd and Angie from Lucky Little Learners to talk all about Parent Communication. 

I think this topic is so important and I am so excited that Ashley and Angie have chosen it for this month. 

There are several ways that I keep in touch with my Parents. The first thing that I do is I have a homework journal that goes home each week. This lets the parents know what is happening for the week. It also lets the parents know what the spelling words are for the week. 

The parents and students love having all the important information for the week on page. 

I also use a behavior calendar to let parents know how the students are behaving each day. 

This calendar is great because the students color in their clip chart color each day and then I can write little notes to let the parents know how they are doing. I also really like the number code at the bottom of the chart. This makes it easy to quickly write the number of how the student did for the day and the parents can quickly look at the code. 

This year I am teaching at a low income school and many parents do not really have access to technology. For next year I would like to try out remind. It will allow you to write your parents without having to exchange numbers. 

I would also like to try out google classroom. It allows the teacher to add things to the calendar. This gives the parents and students the opportunity to check what is happening in class. It also allows the students to turn in assignments and for the teacher to grade them and return them to the students all over the internet. I look forward to trying this out next year. 

How do you keep in touch with parents? What do you hope to add to your routine for next year? Come and link up with Ashley and Angie and learn some new things from other teachers. 

Make sure you come visit their blogs on the 2nd of every month and link up your ideas. 

Have a great day everyone!