What are Friday Folders, you ask?
Once a week, on Fridays, your child will bring home a special "Friday Folder". This folder contains work that has been corrected or looked at by me and returned. Your child will bring this folder home so you can look over his work. I think it is a great way for you to stay up on what your child is working on at school and it also gives you a jumping off point for discussions at home.
For example, when you ask, "How was school? What did you do today?"
and your child says, "Fine. Nothing." you can use their Friday Folder work to prompt them to give some details such as,
"I saw your paper about fact families. What is a fact family anyway?"
Today, most students chose to use an orange homework folder that I just received (Sometimes some items teacher orders for September are delayed or delivered to the wrong person. I had ordered some orange homework folders that just came in.) to put their Friday Folder papers in. Since I knew some kids already had folders they were using, I showed the folders to the class and had them choose if they wanted to take one to use for their papers and mail today. I told them if they have another folder they would rather use to just give the orange homework folder back on Monday and say "I am going to use another folder". It is fine with me! Ideally we would have had these on day 1, but since we didn't I wanted to let them choose. Again, either using a folder they either have is fine, or using the orange homework folder, which is also fine. If they are not going to use it they may just return it on Monday and tell me they are going to use something else. Just as long as they have some kind of folder to keep papers and mail organized in their backpack.
Once a week, on Fridays, your child will bring home a special "Friday Folder". This folder contains work that has been corrected or looked at by me and returned. Your child will bring this folder home so you can look over his work. I think it is a great way for you to stay up on what your child is working on at school and it also gives you a jumping off point for discussions at home.
For example, when you ask, "How was school? What did you do today?"
and your child says, "Fine. Nothing." you can use their Friday Folder work to prompt them to give some details such as,
"I saw your paper about fact families. What is a fact family anyway?"
Today, most students chose to use an orange homework folder that I just received (Sometimes some items teacher orders for September are delayed or delivered to the wrong person. I had ordered some orange homework folders that just came in.) to put their Friday Folder papers in. Since I knew some kids already had folders they were using, I showed the folders to the class and had them choose if they wanted to take one to use for their papers and mail today. I told them if they have another folder they would rather use to just give the orange homework folder back on Monday and say "I am going to use another folder". It is fine with me! Ideally we would have had these on day 1, but since we didn't I wanted to let them choose. Again, either using a folder they either have is fine, or using the orange homework folder, which is also fine. If they are not going to use it they may just return it on Monday and tell me they are going to use something else. Just as long as they have some kind of folder to keep papers and mail organized in their backpack.
Thank you!