Week 4- Newsletter- 2 hours

For your field experience this week, interview the classroom teacher and get a copy of your teacher or school's newsletter to share with the class. In your journal, post the answers to the interview questions, listed below, along with a digital version or link to the newsletter.
Interview Questions:
1.    What information do you communicate in the newsletter?
We communicate what the upcoming week has in store for students. What they will be learning, important dates, and reminders. We also remind parents of what the character word of the month is, the saying, and the literature story. We include important dates, and any other reminders that need to be given.
2.    How often do you publish your newsletter?
The newsletter is published every Friday. Because we create these digitally for the whole grade level, we rotate who is in charge of the newsletter. Teachers can email each other if there is something they think needs to be included, but we do use the same format each week, which makes creating the newsletter much faster and easier. We also use the main calendar found on the schools website, to include all important dates.
3.    Is your newsletter published digitally? Why or why not?
Our newsletter is published digitally each week. The schools website is updated each Friday with the newsletters, and then an email blast is sent out to all parents with the links for the new newsletters. I also send a weekly email to parents, and include the newsletter in that email.
4.    How do you ensure that all students and parents receive the newsletter?
At the beginning of the year I had parents fill out a questionnaire. One of the questions was if they had access to a computer or other digital device. Those who do not, get a paper copy of the newsletter sent home each Friday.
5.    Why is it important for teachers to have classroom newsletters?
I think it is a great way to keep parents informed of what is going on. It provides them a place to see important dates, upcoming assignments or tests, and what the students are learning. I also use it as a way to keep track of what is going on in my classroom, and making sure I have prepared for everything that is coming up.
Copy of newsletter:
file:///C:/Users/mekeo/Downloads/First%20Grade%20Newsletter%2010-20-17.pdf  

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