We set up our parent night with a mystery for the families to solve. The playground equipment was missing and where could it and who could have taken it. The missing equipment happened that afternoon before the meeting. The kids were truly worried that they wouldn't have recess the next day. Families came and were given a list of suspects after watching a little video of the equipment disappearing and each one being asked about it was short a few minutes. The families job was to go to different stations complete the activity and then get a clue to help figure out who took the equipment. Since we have a very high population of ell we made one station wordless books with either families looking for connections with the story or for the intermediate students inference which was the strategy they were working on in the classroom at this time. There were thinking stems to help frame the conversation. Another station was poetry writing (haiku) with the art teacher she had various images and various haiku as models. The bilingual teachers had a message written a language unfamiliar to the family so they could have a better understanding of what it feels like to learn a new language. We had books for families to select from to keep the int. title one teacher was able to talk about just right books to the parents as the students selected. The last station was word work to show how k - 5 is using words their way in the classrooms looks and why we do it. When they completed their suspect list they came back to the cafeteria for the unveiling and a little video to show who had done it. We did serve dinner first which always helps we had well over half the families attend which is a good turnout for us since many parents work a second job at night or the moms don't drive yet. Kathleen
Some kids still believe that the school counselor took the equipment on purpose and when anything is missing they will be did any ask Mr. ----. You gotta love the gullibility of primary. -----Original Message----- From: mosaic-bounces+kamills=seattleschools....@literacyworkshop.org [mailto:mosaic-bounces+kamills=seattleschools....@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Hiles Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:36 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] parent nights We try to do a lot of performance reading - readers theatre, poems, choral reading, songs - and the parents participate in some of the performances - songs, poems - after they hear their children read. We usually have a craft - like a picture frame (from Oriental Trading or the Dollar Store) and frame the poem (Black History poem, Mother's Day, holiday, etc.) and have a picture of their child on the back of the frame. We always have refreshments and door prizes. It is still hard to get the parents at school. On Apr 14, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Jeanne Crider 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 > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > 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. > Liz Hiles "A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it." - Samuel Johnson Liz Hiles Title 1 Reading Arthur Ashe, Jr. Elementary School ekhi...@henrico.k12.va.us _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org 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 Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org 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.
