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Open House!
By Maggie

Each year for Open house, I will create a sillouette of each students head/face. Then the students will write clues underneath at to who the "shadow picture" is. My students love creating the clues, I love watching the
parents guess which child is theirs. As I trace each student, I sometimes don't see the student in the outline, but then I take it home to cut them out and I will immediately see who it is.
I also create a giving tree. So many times throughout the year I have to buy "extra" items, I put those items on apple post-it notes and then draw the outline of a tree on the board and put the

notes on the tree. I then ask the parents, if they want to help, take an apple off the tree and send in that item at their convenience. These items are usually small, like a pack of index cards, bag of candy, or even stickers. Parents usually want to help out any way they can.
I also create a poster that says,"We're going to have a great year!". Have the parents sign the poster and write notes to the class. Parents love writing notes of encouragement! The poster can then be displayed the rest of the year!
I hope some of these suggestions help.