Back To School, Lets Get Talking!
Posted: August 11, 2019

Here is a list of 10 open ended questions to help keep the dialogue flowing all year:
- Tell me about your goals for the year/ month/ week/ day? Why are these important to you?
- What is something you want us to do as a family this year?
- Tell me about what you have on the schedule at school this week?
- What was the best part of your day?
- What was the most interesting thing you learned or heard today?
- If you could switch seats with anyone in class, who would it be? And why?
- If you switched places with your teacher tomorrow, what would you teach?
- Who did you eat lunch with today? -or- Who did you play with at recess?
- What is different/changed between this year and last year?
- You seem to be handling your homework and soccer/track/drama (extra curricular activity) really well, tell me about how you are balancing everything? - Or- What is the hardest part of balancing homework and your activity? What do you think can help?