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Notebooks!
By Julie

Here's the basics behind the Goal Notebooks - I have a handout I could type up and forward if you'd like!

Each student has a regular spiral notebook. Every morning you have a note from the teacher, a journal prompt, and
whatever other items you'd want to include (daily math problems, spelling list, vocab. list, etc.) on their desk. They glue it into the notebook. They write a couple paragraphs in response to the journal prompt and finish it up with a goal for the day, week, year, whatever! Then the parents need to sign it each night. You may include the assignments, but these particular teachers

had a seperate assignment notebook. Any letters to be handed out or sent home were pasted in the notebook. Permission slips were pasted halfway in, so the signature part could be torn off. If classroom or other teacher has thoughts, concerns, they would write it in. Student teachers coming in could type a blurb about themselves. The daily teacher's note can be short and used as a reminder for field trips, special occasions, communicating what learning concepts are being taught, to welcome a new student, etc. Hope that paints a somewhat clear picture. I am really excited to try it next year. I have my journal prompts already typed, copied, and cut!

I did see the reader's notebooks and would like to see one, not sure about needing five though either! Also, is anyone going to Fountas and Pinell's summer training workshop in Maryland? I'm trying to decide if I can afford to go! Or can I afford NOT to? *8)