They provide daily, on-going communication between home and school and school and home. Every teacher has been sending home daily communications through the notebooks for the past two school years.
Parents know when their child learned something new, made a new friend, or had a hard day.
Teachers know when children come to school without enough sleep, with a worry from home, or with a terrific experience to share in school. Kids know that their parents and teachers really care about them, are working together, and that it's not parent against teacher. It's a perfect example of how communication can truly be effective. Currently, Vollmer School has only about 50 students. This would be extremely time-consuming to complete 25 notebooks daily.