Bridging School & Home through Family Nights

Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K?8

Diane W. Kyle, Ellen McIntyre, Karen B. Miller, Gayle H. Moore

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781629147208
• eBook ISBN:
  9781629148915
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Classroom Management

Improve student achievement through academically focused family nights! Research confirms the link between family involvement and academic success. Yet, as student populations become increasingly diverse, educators face a daunting challenge in establishing close connections with families. Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights: Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K-8 offers all the information, materials, and resources for planning and implementing events that build effective relationships. Drawing on their own experiences and extensive research, the authors include information on adapting events for special populations, issues around providing food and incentives, cost-saving ideas, and additional resources.Each of the book's thirteen family night chapters is a self-contained unit that provides event procedures, needed materials, connections with national standards, and numerous reproducibles, including: • Invitations
• Agendas
• Sign-in sheets
• Evaluation forms
• Activity worksheets
• Handouts
• OverheadsProductive family night experiences offer an enjoyable and meaningful way for schools to reach out to families and get them involved. This book is appropriate for K-8 teachers and principals or anyone in the school or district responsible for family events.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Authors
• 1. Getting Families Involved Through Family Nights
• 2. Scrapbook Family Night: Preserving Memories in Words and Pictures
• 3. Books, Books, and More Books: A Reading-Focused Family Night
• 4. Meet Our Pets Family Night
• 5. A Morning of Family Fun With Math
• 6. Sharing Family Stories and Traditions Night
• 7. Game-Making/Writing Family Night for Developing Writing Skills
• 8. Pajama Party Family Night: A Reading Event
• 9. Meeting Famous People Through Biographies Family Night
• 10. Sharing Hobbies, Talents, and Interests Family Night
• 11. Poetry Family Morning
• 12. Making Science Fun Family Night
• 13. Fun With Language: A Family Night of Riddles, Jokes, and Cartoons
• 14. Health and Wellness Family Night
• 15. Next Steps: Getting the Most Out of Family Nights
• Resource A: Reproducible Planning Guide
• Resource B: Reproducible Sign-In Sheet
• Resource C: Helpful Web Sites
• Resource D: Spanish Translations of Invitations
• References
• Index