1-2-3 Come Write Some News With Me!

I sent home a newsletter every week to keep my parents informed.  It was simply a bulleted 1-pager of what we were doing.

Having a standard header for your newsletter, alerts parents of what this is.  I kept it the same for the month, and then would switch to something appropriate for the next season.  i.e. pumpkins for October etc.

I always ended on an uplifting note with "Chuckles and Heartwarmers." This section was a few quotes of the cute things the children had said or did that week. 

Many parents commented that they looked forward to the newsletter, and being able to know important information, as little ones don't tend to have a whole lot of comments when a parent asks: "What did you do in school today?"

I've included headers for preschool through 4th grade, + a blank one for you to fill in with whatever.

You can also use these as a cute writing prompt.  Have each student write their own page of what they are doing that’s newsworthy.

Collect and collate them into a class book, or post them on a bulletin board. Use real newspaper pages as the background of your board and then mount students’ work on the top.

Print off the “Read all about it...” strips; cut them out and use them for a border around the bulletin board.

You can also use only one page to post news on. Pass the “newspaper” around to each student, who jots down something newsworthy for that week or month. If it gets filled up, start a new page.  Mount the pages on real newspaper and put on the wall.

Children could also become reporters and choose a partner to interview, filling out their "newspaper" about that person. My Y5's loved carrying around a clipboard to do various writing.

Click on the link to view/download the Read All About It newsletter templates.

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"If we take people as we find them, we may make them worse, but if we treat them as though they are what they should be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe