My school district is very purposeful and intentional about their use of homework and I’ve tried to follow their same policies! This means I don’t give homework for the majority of my caseload other than family recommendations or strategies. But, I always want the families I work with to feel knowledgeable and comfortable with what I’m working on with their children. I’ve been writing little notes on worksheets and the like for a while before sending them home and then came up with a genius idea… LABELS.

I printed several sheets of these labels and keep them in my binder at all times. When a student does something that’s decently easy to send home, I stick it with a label and have them put it in their backpack/take home folder. This has worked super well! I love that it’s low pressure meaning they don’t really have to do anything at home but it does allow the family to talk about what they did over dinner or something.

Now you might be wondering, how did you make them? It was so easy! First, buy labels! I got these ones off of Amazon.

Second, use Avery.com to design your label. They have a super easy wizard!

Last, print and stick. Every label size is different as well as printer settings so just double check you’ve got all of that straight. It took me a couple tries to get them to line up but I stink at using printers! 🙂

It’s worked out really well for me so far! What do you think?

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