This year at open house, we put the parents to work, with the help of their child! I wanted students to be able to demonstrate to their parents some of the learning targets they had mastered during the first nine weeks, so I set up stations for them to model just that!
We had several stations located around our classroom that focused on some of the areas that fourth grade is assessed. Some of our stations included writing friendly letters (parents had to write one to their child to leave on their desk to read after fall break), problem solving, Math Whiz, writing expanded, standard and word forms of numbers, sentence sorting, and using the clickers. After students led their parents through the stations, the parents reflected on their learning and experiences at open house, by using our clickers. It was awesome to see the students as they excitedly demonstrated what we had learned during the first few weeks of school!