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Here are the activities we had going in our gym: graphing your favorite kind of book, jeopardy (primary and intermediate), story elements activity, creative writing, using trail games, making words, magazine giveaway, story time corner, Bingo. Our special ed. teacher also had a table set up on teaching non readers, and we invited our public library to have an information table. They also signed up people who wanted a library card. They were delighted to take part! The families (the children had to attend with a parent or caregiver) could attend any or all the stations in any order they wanted to. We gave out door prizes all evening. If the students had already gone home, we held on to them and gave them to them the next morning. We also had a graffitti wall as they left to write their comments on! We ran this evening from 6:30 until 8:00. People could come and go as they pleased. We served no refreshments. We had two teachers registering people and giving them packets of handouts that would help the parents remember how to do many of the activities at home. The parents were thrilled at all the practical ideas they got to help with homework and the kids loved showing off and getting door prizes. All in all we spent about $300 for the evening. Probably $220 was spent on door prizes and goody bags. The rest was spent on paper products (paper for fliers, name tags, markers, etc.). Our office donated 2 reams of paper for fliers to go home and file folders for the handouts. We had people register ahead of time so we had an idea of how many and what ages to plan for. We had a few families not show up, but we had more show up that had NOT registered. We were busy the entire evening. We probably had 60 - 70 families participate during the evening. It took about 16 teachers to pull this off; not everyone helped and it was a purely voluntary event. This year we will probably keep the Bingo and Jeopardy, since they were big hits, and also the storytelling corner. I'm looking at a compare/contrast station, a main idea/details station, coupon literacy station (so much more to do with coupons than just the math!)and having the kids make a glyph to practice reading a legend and following directions. If the teachers want some of the other stations that's fine too; I just am looking for some new ideas. If you need more information about any of these ideas you can e-mail me; I just don't want to take up a whole lot of space here! RT
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