Description
Save yourself time and ease yourself back into the classroom! This writing activity is designed for your students to catch you up on what you’ve missed while you’ve been gone on leave! There are sections for them to write about their personal lives as well as what happened in your class while you were away. There are four formats to choose from, as well as versions in English AND Spanish so you can choose what works best for your classroom!
Included:
❁ Four Variations:
- In my life/ In our classroom – drawing space
- In my life/ In our classroom – lines to write
- The good, the bad, what’s new? + Goals for the rest of the year
- Letter format for students to write a response to the prompt
❁ Each variation is included in Spanish AND English! This is an easy print and go option for your first day back from maternity leave! Ease yourself and your students back into your routines together! *****************************************************************************
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Robyn Spain –
Great for coming back from maternity leave, especially as 5 different colleagues were covering my classes instead of one long term sub. It helped me determine what each class had been doing and where they were at.
Brittiny Zotzky –
Great to hear about how my time away went and what I can do going forward
Alexis S. –
This was an enjoyable activity to enter back into the classroom with after maternity leave. My students enjoyed telling me about their time while I was away. The perfect activity after being gone!
Ashley Mikkelsen –
I am so glad to hear that!! I was very stressed out before my own return to school after leave, so I’m glad to hear this worked well for you, too!
Julia R. –
Was exactly what I wanted for when I returned from leave. Students enjoyed telling me about their lives while I was gone.
Chieu T. –
It helped me get back into the class with the students.
Maestra Paloma –
I needed something after taking maternity leave and this was the perfect activity during the first week back!
Emily N. –
Awesome product to use after returning from FMLA earlier this year. I wish I would have thought it of it myself.
Ashley B. –
Great resource to use in class! Students enjoyed this activity
Mrs KCS –
Awesome resource!
ELA with Mrs. McCray –
This was great for my first day back from maternity leave! I feel like students were more comfortable sharing their thoughts through this activity than they would have been with sharing them out loud.
Melissa D. –
This was exactly what I was looking for to help ease the my transition back from maternity leave! The students loved the opportunity to fill me in! 🙂
Rachel P. –
Nice and easy way to ease back into school when returning from Maternity Leave.
Andrea V. –
This made preparing for my maternity leave much easier. Thanks!
Taylor H. –
Loved this resource for when I returned from maternity leave with my kiddos this year!!
Charvette Collier –
Great Resource!
SraFranSwan –
Got really good feedback, most students took the generous space to fill me in on many things! It was amazing! Goes to show you when we give the space for students to express themselves privately like this, it encourages them to open up! Was gone for 3 months on maternity leave and could not wait to hear about it all from them!
Andrea B. –
My class really took this very seriously and wrote a lot about what I had missed, both academic and personal. I enjoyed reading their responses and opinions. Thanks for a great resource that I can use when absent from school.
Books Babbles and Bows –
Awesome resource. Thank you!
Betsey M. –
Perfect way to ease back in the classroom and also have students share with me what I missed. I had students write down some pretty big events that they would never share out in a class discussion.