Make a Note of That

One of my favorite things to have my students do is to write me notes.  This serves a couple purposes. First, it gives importance to reading and writing by making it a real world skill.  It is also a convenient memory jog when something comes up mid-lesson that I need to remember later.  And my favorite, it makes me smile when I get back to my desk and find these notes.

After the time change, I realized I had turned my watch alarm on.  By Tuesday, when once again it went off at 9:45, I asked a student to write a note to remind me to fix my watch.  This is what I found propped on my computer.

We were collecting bottle caps as part of a counting lesson.  When I realized I left some on the counter at home, I asked another student to write a note to remind me to bring them.

We sing songs to go with each letter of the alphabet.  We hadn't sung the song about Hattie Horse for quite some time.  One of the students wanted to sing it, but unfortunately we had run out of time.  I told her to write me a note so that we could sing it the next day.  Not only did she write the note, she folded the bottom so that the note popped up and there was no way I would forget to do Hattie Horse the next day.

Today when I was making a note of who was absent several students volunteered to help!