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By Sandy J

I was just reading the post below about how people use mailboxes, and I noticed that some people empty them daily and others only once a week. I have done both, and am now doing once a week.
Questions:

1. If you
empty daily, where do kids put the papers--special folder, backpack,...??? How do you keep the corrected papers separate from homework?

2. If you do weekly, how do you deal with notes that "have to be sent home today"?

3. What grade do you teach? It seems that younger children are way more responsible about getting stuff to parents.

I teach 4th grade and I do a

weekly folder in which corrected papers and notes are sent home and supposedly looked at. The folder is then signed by the parents to show they saw it. This works reasonably well, but it seems that there are often notes to be sent home that have been generated by others in the school (piano teachers, coaches, birthday invites) that need to go home on a day other than folder day. I worry about these getting lost. I also think parents need to see papers such as math more often than once a week. But when we tried the daily thing, kids got confused about which papers need to come back to school and which need to stay home. I have seen the big binder idea which has a separate slot just for notes, and it sounds like a good idea. For those of you who have tried that, does it work well?

Sorry, this got longer than I intended.