Your student's planner needs to be signed each night. Whether a parent, babysitter, or older sibling (who may be in charge for the evening) signs the planner is all right. The signature means that you're aware of your student's homework for the evening.
The reading calendar is to keep track of your student's reading. Each night, a parent, babysitter, etc, needs to write in the day how many minutes your student read, and initial the box. I check both the planner and the reading calendar the next day.
We talked today in class about how it's the students' responsibility to ask to have their planner signed and calendar initialed. I just ask that you help them to remember! In class I leave them responsible for packing their backpacks, but I also check their backpacks at the end of the day in order to make sure they have everything. This is a GREAT way to help your student build responsibility, while saving them the grief of forgetting things. They will build the good habits they need so that by the end of the year, they will be taking care of their own things very well.
If the writing on your student's calendar is confusing, it's just an example (ex:) of what the box should look like. Please make sure to initial and write the amount of minutes read.
Please email me if you have any questions!
Ms. Hermus
