Assignment #1: Design a Newsletter
Each student is to design a weekly day care newsletter to send out to parents. The purpose of
this newsletter is to enhance home/school communication. Total 2 pages
Your newsletter should include:
• Greeting (Must include)
• New learning/discoveries in the past week(s) (Must include)
• Child discussions in the past week(s) and plans for upcoming week based on (Must include)
these discussions
• Parent questions and answers (Must include)
• Eating/food topics – include a “recipe of the week” (Must include)
• Guidance suggestions – “Parenting tip of the week” (Must include)
• Photo(s)
• Teacher reflections (Must include)
• Stories read in class, and words to songs (Must include)
• Reminders of upcoming events (field trips, birthdays, holidays, etc..) (Must include)
• Staff updates (if any) (Must include)
The tone of the newsletter is to be fun, informative, lighthearted.
This newsletter should be designed in a format that it can be electronically sent to
parents, and also be able to be printed off so some parents are able to have a paper
copy