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Ms. Altomer's Classroom • 4th Grade

Dear Families,

I truly believe that effective schools build a partnership between teachers and parents who work together toward the best interest of the child. I have spent great deal of time creating this website and I hope you find it extremely helpful. If you have any ideas of great links I should add, please email me! Also, if you would like to volunteer in our classroom, or have any suggestions/ideas to improve the curriculum, please let me know so we can work together to improve your child's education. United, we can make a huge difference!

Sincerely,

Ms. Altomer

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25 Ways to Ask Your Kids 'So How Was School Today?' Without Asking Them 'So How Was School Today?'

This year, Hunter is in eighth grade and Gavin is in fifth grade, and I find myself asking them every day after school, "So how was school today?" or "What did you do in school today?"

And every day I get an answer like "fine," "good," or "nothing," which doesn't tell me a whole lot.

AND I WANT TO KNOW A WHOLE LOT!!!!

1. What was the best thing that happened at school today? (What was the worst thing that happened at school today?)

2. Tell me something that made you laugh today.

3. If you could choose, who would you like to sit by in class? (Who would you NOT want to sit by in class? Why?)

4. Where is the coolest place at the school?

5. Tell me a weird word that you heard today. (Or something weird that someone said.)

6. If I called your teacher tonight, what would she tell me about you?

7. How did you help somebody today?

8. How did somebody help you today?

9. Tell me one thing that you learned today.

10. When were you the happiest today?

11. When were you bored today?

12. If an alien spaceship came to your class and beamed someone up, who would you want them to take?

13. Who would you like to play with at recess that you've never played with before?

14. Tell me something good that happened today.

15. What word did your teacher say most today?

16. What do you think you should do/learn more of at school?

17. What do you think you should do/learn less of at school?

18. Who in your class do you think you could be nicer to?

19. Where do you play the most at recess?

20. Who is the funniest person in your class? Why is he/she so funny?

21. What was your favorite part of lunch?

22. If you got to be the teacher tomorrow, what would you do?

23. Is there anyone in your class who needs a time-out?

24. If you could switch seats with anyone in the class, who would you trade with? Why?

25. Tell me about three different times you used your pencil today at school.

Unity

I dreamed I stood in a studio and watched two sculptors there.

The clay they used was a child's mind, and they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher - the tools she used were books and music and art.

The other, a parent, used a guiding hand and a gentle, loving heart.

Day after day, the teacher toiled with a touch that was deft and sure.

While the parent labored by her side, polishing and smoothing some more.

And when, at last, their work was done, they were proud of what they had wrought,

for the things they molded into the child could be neither sold nor bought.

Yet each agreed that they would have failed if each had worked alone.

For behind the parent stood the school, and behind the teacher, the home.

-Author unknown

"Treat your child as though he is already the person he's capable of becoming." -Haim Ginott