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Freebie Start of the Year Reading Notes Home

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Here is a must do idea for Meet the Teacher. Send home a $1 book from Scholastic and one of these simple notes with each new students.
This is a fun activity for families to do together the night before school starts.
You can find the cheapo Scholastic books and order a class set. Look for the $1 books and try to grab them for free with Scholastic Points.
I send them home with each new friend at Meet the Teacher, the day before school starts.
Their homework is to read the book with their parents.
I am glad to share my ideas with you do get literature into the hands and homes of our students.
Someone asked me for the note home I am sending…
but I didn’t have it made.
So I got busy. You can grab all the freebie notes here.
This way, I hopefully have your book covered.
It also allows you to use books from your library, school library,
or elsewhere since you can mix and match.
I also added the Amazon links in case you need to grab them from there.
Try to get them through Scholastic for cheaper though!

I went through the list you guys gave me before on books you use at the start of the year….
did I miss any I should add to the pack?

Here is the set up for each new student when they enter my classroom at Meet the Teacher.

On the First Day of Kindergarten Note Home

I printed many of the notes onto one page using my printer setting so I could make them smaller.

You can also grab more Meet the Teacher inspiration on this post.

Meet My Heart

And discover the easiest way to collect parent information at Meet the Teacher by using a Google Form!

Google Form Tips for Meet the Teacher

 

Start of the Year Notes Home

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  9. Love the notes! I ordered right after the other post and have my books ready for welcome night, just need to add the note!

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  10. FYI…Scholastic still has their last flyer open for ordering…Night Before Kindergarten is 95 cents. Sale ends July 5 I think. This was in the Firefly (PreK-K) flyer.

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  15. These are so cute! I love the "Night Before…" series by Natasha Wing! But I didn't know if you knew, in the download the note for "The Night Before First Grade" says "The Night Before Kindergarten" down with the author's name. Sorry if you already knew this and had fixed it! Thank you again for a great freebie!! 🙂

    Charlene
    kachinan@hotmail.com

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  19. Hello,

    I love using these!! I just wanted to let you know that The Night Before Kindergarten says it's by Natalie Wing, but it should be Natasha. Someone one pointed it out to me today when I was prepping books for the new year. I just wanted to give you a heads up! Thank you for these!!

    Danielle
    dnll.brown@gmail.com

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