Fifth Grade Parent Survey
From: Lisa R
To: Ms. H
Date: 8/12/2005 8:50:35 AM
Subject: Fifth Grade Parent Survey
Ms. H, I’m attaching (and pasting below in case there are any problems with the attachment) Laura’s parent survey. I took this to work yesterday to fill out so she could turn it in this morning and then left it on my desk—I had a meeting that ran over and then had to leave early to take Laura to the dentist. So you will see when you read this that she’s probably not the only one who needs to work on organizing her work better.
Sorry this is not only late but so looong. I get kinda carried away with my homework. :)
Thanks.
Lisa
To: Ms. H
Date: 8/12/2005 8:50:35 AM
Subject: Fifth Grade Parent Survey
Ms. H, I’m attaching (and pasting below in case there are any problems with the attachment) Laura’s parent survey. I took this to work yesterday to fill out so she could turn it in this morning and then left it on my desk—I had a meeting that ran over and then had to leave early to take Laura to the dentist. So you will see when you read this that she’s probably not the only one who needs to work on organizing her work better.
Sorry this is not only late but so looong. I get kinda carried away with my homework. :)
Thanks.
Lisa
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Dear Parents and/or Guardians,
So that we may become better acquainted with your child, please fill out the survey below and return it.
Thank you,
Ms. H. and Ms. W
Fifth Grade Parent Survey
Student’s Name: Laura R
1. What are your child’s favorite activities/interests?
Laura loves to read and to swim. She collects Build-a-Bear stuffed animals, and also likes to watch TV. She spent a lot of time this summer reading Goosebumps books and also finished the new Harry Potter novel in two days after it was released. She took swimming lessons again this summer and loves to swim in pools, but also in Six-Mile Creek, a tidal creek in near the coast where her grandparents have a house.
2. What responsibilities does your child have at home?
Laura has to keep her room cleaned up, which is a big chore since she shares a room with her little brother and it’s too small for both of them and their stuff. She cleans her bathroom (when ordered to do so). She watches her brother for us while we work on the house often too. She helps set and clear the table at meals.
3. How does your child get along with his/her brothers or sisters or playmates at home?
Very well. Her little brother William is three, and she loves him. He gets on her nerves when he plays with her Polly Pocket toys, but she wrote an “I am” poem last year that included this line: “I understand that Will’s a baby.” She is also patient with our neighbor’s children, one of whom is near her age, but less emotionally mature, and two of whom are very much younger. She is very mature and responsible with these kids.
4. About how much time does your child spend watching TV?
Too much. This summer she’d turn on the Disney Channel and leave it on all day if we let her. Generally we allow both kids to watch something in the morning while they eat breakfast, but that’s usually a Disney movie or Arthur. She attends Challenger and doesn’t get home until around 6, so I do let her watch some TV while I get dinner fixed and on the table. Most nights we turn it off after dinner for a while, but it’s not unusual for us to let them watch something for a few minutes right at bedtime—they will lie down on our bed and watch Star Trek for half-an-hour or until they fall asleep. As I said, it’s probably too much. But we do at least limit what kinds of programs they can watch very strictly.
5. How does your child interact with books at home?
Laura reads a lot. She reads at most meals (yes, sometimes even when the TV is on), and in the car while we’re running errands, and often we’ll listen to the Harry Potter books on tape in the car on trips too. She has a reading light on her bed, and a book light in the car. Her father and I both teach English, so she has grown up surrounded by books and loves them. Our favorite family outing is to go out to eat and then go to the bookstore after dinner.
6. What kinds of writing or drawing does your child do at home?
She writes and draws a fair amount. I believe she’s keeping some sort of diary or journal, but this is apparently a secret. She likes to write stories sometimes, and she often helps me write various types of lists. She had a poem published in last year’s Southern Sampler. She also likes to draw, which she and her brother do together sometimes. She draws lots of landscapes. Here’s a little essay she wrote in fourth grade last year about her writing (for PACT, I think?)
7. What do you see as your child’s strengths?
Laura is an emotionally mature child who listens well and respects other people, children and adults alike. She is very loving and can be generous. She loves to “teach” smaller kids, and worked with Mrs. B’s Challenger kindergarten kids until the older kids weren’t allowed to do this anymore. She is smart and funny and an excellent reader.
8. What do you see as your child’s weaknesses?
She can be impatient with her work sometimes, and can also be careless and a little disorganized (like all of us, I think). She thinks she doesn’t do well at math, which generally means she doesn’t. I think she got a little behind learning her facts, multiplication tables and whatnot, and she also doesn’t conceptualize math the way I think many people do—when I try to think of 23-13 I can see the numbers written on top of each other, but she tries to count up from 13 to 23 to get the result. Because she conceptualizing problems differently (and I haven’t figure out how she does visualize them), she doesn’t believe she does well in math at all.
9. How does your child feel about school?
She loves school. She is always excited about coming back, and she has loved all her teachers, and we’ve been fortunate that she’s generally had very good teachers. She enjoys her classes, especially art, I think, and she is thrilled about being in Safety Patrol, although she doesn’t want to think about the fact that this means she’s leaving Orange Elementary after this year.
Dear Parents and/or Guardians,
So that we may become better acquainted with your child, please fill out the survey below and return it.
Thank you,
Ms. H. and Ms. W
Fifth Grade Parent Survey
Student’s Name: Laura R
1. What are your child’s favorite activities/interests?
Laura loves to read and to swim. She collects Build-a-Bear stuffed animals, and also likes to watch TV. She spent a lot of time this summer reading Goosebumps books and also finished the new Harry Potter novel in two days after it was released. She took swimming lessons again this summer and loves to swim in pools, but also in Six-Mile Creek, a tidal creek in near the coast where her grandparents have a house.
2. What responsibilities does your child have at home?
Laura has to keep her room cleaned up, which is a big chore since she shares a room with her little brother and it’s too small for both of them and their stuff. She cleans her bathroom (when ordered to do so). She watches her brother for us while we work on the house often too. She helps set and clear the table at meals.
3. How does your child get along with his/her brothers or sisters or playmates at home?
Very well. Her little brother William is three, and she loves him. He gets on her nerves when he plays with her Polly Pocket toys, but she wrote an “I am” poem last year that included this line: “I understand that Will’s a baby.” She is also patient with our neighbor’s children, one of whom is near her age, but less emotionally mature, and two of whom are very much younger. She is very mature and responsible with these kids.
4. About how much time does your child spend watching TV?
Too much. This summer she’d turn on the Disney Channel and leave it on all day if we let her. Generally we allow both kids to watch something in the morning while they eat breakfast, but that’s usually a Disney movie or Arthur. She attends Challenger and doesn’t get home until around 6, so I do let her watch some TV while I get dinner fixed and on the table. Most nights we turn it off after dinner for a while, but it’s not unusual for us to let them watch something for a few minutes right at bedtime—they will lie down on our bed and watch Star Trek for half-an-hour or until they fall asleep. As I said, it’s probably too much. But we do at least limit what kinds of programs they can watch very strictly.
5. How does your child interact with books at home?
Laura reads a lot. She reads at most meals (yes, sometimes even when the TV is on), and in the car while we’re running errands, and often we’ll listen to the Harry Potter books on tape in the car on trips too. She has a reading light on her bed, and a book light in the car. Her father and I both teach English, so she has grown up surrounded by books and loves them. Our favorite family outing is to go out to eat and then go to the bookstore after dinner.
6. What kinds of writing or drawing does your child do at home?
She writes and draws a fair amount. I believe she’s keeping some sort of diary or journal, but this is apparently a secret. She likes to write stories sometimes, and she often helps me write various types of lists. She had a poem published in last year’s Southern Sampler. She also likes to draw, which she and her brother do together sometimes. She draws lots of landscapes. Here’s a little essay she wrote in fourth grade last year about her writing (for PACT, I think?)
The thing I like to do most is writing a story. Writing is fun to me because you can put in as much adventure as you want. you never have to draw the line anywhere when your using your imagination. When I sit down at the computer about to start a story I always think about what my story’s going to be about. Lots of the time my storys always start off adventure and exciment, it makes the reader want to read more. I write stories as often as I can, like after homework so I can stay active. When I start to write a story I always remember a story’s 3 main parts. I rember—topic sentence, body and conclustion. It always helps to remember those. It’s really important to me because writing could be my future. I’m going to stick with my writing and see if I can get some publised.
7. What do you see as your child’s strengths?
Laura is an emotionally mature child who listens well and respects other people, children and adults alike. She is very loving and can be generous. She loves to “teach” smaller kids, and worked with Mrs. B’s Challenger kindergarten kids until the older kids weren’t allowed to do this anymore. She is smart and funny and an excellent reader.
8. What do you see as your child’s weaknesses?
She can be impatient with her work sometimes, and can also be careless and a little disorganized (like all of us, I think). She thinks she doesn’t do well at math, which generally means she doesn’t. I think she got a little behind learning her facts, multiplication tables and whatnot, and she also doesn’t conceptualize math the way I think many people do—when I try to think of 23-13 I can see the numbers written on top of each other, but she tries to count up from 13 to 23 to get the result. Because she conceptualizing problems differently (and I haven’t figure out how she does visualize them), she doesn’t believe she does well in math at all.
9. How does your child feel about school?
She loves school. She is always excited about coming back, and she has loved all her teachers, and we’ve been fortunate that she’s generally had very good teachers. She enjoys her classes, especially art, I think, and she is thrilled about being in Safety Patrol, although she doesn’t want to think about the fact that this means she’s leaving Orange Elementary after this year.
posted by Lisa at 8/12/2005 07:57:00 AM
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