‘Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights is a handy book that practitioners can readily pick up and select activities, ideas, and themes for including families in the learning process. This practical book offers thirteen self-contained units full of activities, sample invitations, agendas, charts-everything a staff member needs to plan a successful event.’
Susan N. Imamura, Principal
Manoa Elementary School, Honolulu, HI
‘The useful content, reader-friendly tone, and easy-to-understand style speak directly to teachers and school staff responsible for parent involvement activities. The family nights can be used as a series of yearlong family activities or school staff can pick and choose the family nights that fit their academic focus.’
Michele R. Dean, Principal
Montalvo Elementary School, Ventura, CA
Improve student achievement through academically focused family nights!
Research confirms the link between family involvement and academic success. Yet, as student populations become increasingly diverse, educators face a daunting challenge in establishing close connections with families. Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights: Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K-8 offers all the information, materials, and resources for planning and implementing events that build effective relationships. Drawing on their own experiences and extensive research, the authors include information on adapting events for special populations, issues around providing food and incentives, cost-saving ideas, and additional resources.
Each of the book′s thirteen family night chapters is a self-contained unit that provides event procedures, needed materials, connections with national standards, and numerous reproducibles, including:
- Invitations
- Agendas
- Sign-in sheets
- Evaluation forms
- Activity worksheets
- Handouts
- Overheads
Productive family night experiences offer an enjoyable and meaningful way for schools to reach out to families and get them involved. This book is appropriate for K-8 teachers and principals or anyone in the school or district responsible for family events.
Зміст
Preface
About the Authors
1. Getting Families Involved in School Through Family Nights
2. Scrapbook Family Night: Preserving Memories in Words and Pictures
3. Books, Books, and More Books: A Reading-Focused Family Night
4. Meet Our Pets Family Night
5. A Morning of Family Fun With Math
6. Sharing Family Stories and Traditions Night
7. Game-Making/Writing Family Night for Developing Writing Skills
8. Pajama Party Family Night: A Reading Event
9. Meeting Famous People Through Biographies Family Night
10. Sharing Hobbies, Talents, and Interests Family Night
11. Poetry Family Morning
12. Making Science Fun Family Night
13. Fun With Language: A Family Night of Riddles, Jokes, and Cartoons
14. Health and Wellness Family Night
15. Next Steps: Getting the Most Out of Family Nights
Resource A: Reproducible Planning Guide
Resource B: Reproducible Sign-in Sheet
Resource C: Helpful Web Sites
Resource D: Spanish Translations of Invitations
References
Index
Про автора
Gayle H. Moore recently retired after teaching elementary school for 31 years at grades K–8, including 9 years in the nongraded primary program at La Grange Elementary in Oldham County, Kentucky. Throughout that time, she participated as a teacher-researcher on studies related to the nongraded primary. She has coauthored Reaching Out: A K–8 Resource for Connecting Schools and Families, a chapter in Creating Nongraded Primary Classrooms: Teachers’ Stories and Lessons Learned, and articles in Language Arts and Peabody Journal of Education. She has presented at conferences of the American Educational Research Association, the International Reading Association, and the National Reading Conference. Most recently she has participated as a teacher-researcher for the study, “Children’s Academic Development in Nongraded Primary Programs, ” funded by the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) at the University of California at Santa Cruz. For three years, she made family visits to the homes of her students, learning about the families’ knowledge and using it to make instructional connections. She also planned and implemented several Family Nights, one focused on mathematics. Her subsequent classroom activities are described in an article in Teaching Children Mathematics.
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