When you child comes without a planner, (s)he makes an emergency planner from our recycling paper. This allows me to send home messages and you to send messages to me -- assuming you don't find the missing planner right away. So, if you didn't put a planner in the backpack, you should still check for messages from school.
If your child is making a different planner every day, we have a big communication problem. I don't know what information you have and what you've missed. Worse, you don't know what you've missed.
I always assume that if I sent it home, you have it. I do not phone you remind you of things I put in the planner. The best way for you to stay in touch is to read the planner every day.
TIP: Make backpack check a part of your daily routine. Good times are
- Right after you get home.
- Right after supper.
- Just before bed time.
- (Not nearly as good, but better than nothing -- on the way out the door the next morning.)
Initial the planner. Then put it right back in the backpack. It's great if you can also put any signed forms back immediately.
We all have busy lives. The planner takes less than a minute most days. Not having a planner slows down your child's morning (and the morning of the whole class because I have to stop to staple the planner together for your child and do an additional check to see that messages really are included) and can leave you without important information. It might mean that your child misses a field trip or you miss your interview with me. It means you aren't seeing the day to day school life of your child in one of the most critical years.
If you think you've permanently lost the planner or the dog really ate it, we can set up an exercise book to go back and forth instead.
A good planner routine of 1-5 minutes per day is a gift to your child.
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