Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Tiger Tips for Parents!

Good afternoon! Hope this blog posts finds you doing well!



Are you like everyone else who uses text messaging as an easy way to communicate with your loved ones? Well, beginning next week, we will be sending out parent tips (we're calling them "Tiger Tips for Parents") via text message to share information about school-related topics with families. There will be various accounts for the messages, and all are facilitated through a website called Remind.

Remind is a great way to stay in touch because then teachers can text parents without sharing personal cell phone numbers. Mrs. Jantz and Ms. Brezek will be sending out texts once a week on a variety of topics all under the umbrella of supporting your child at school. Tips might be about helping your child with homework, information on assessments we use to check your child's progress at school, or their general well-being. All messages have to be 140 characters or less, so sometimes, we might send a web link as well for parents to look at.

Tiger Tips for Parents are going to be set up by grade level and language. Some messages will be different depending on the grade level,  and other messages might apply across a grade span or all grades, so we might send the same to a few grade levels. There will also be an account where Spanish-speaking parents can sign up to receive the text messages in Spanish. The groups are as follows:

  • Kindergarten Parents
  • 1st Grade Parents
  • 2nd Grade Parents
  • 3rd Grade Parents
  • 4th Grade Parents
  • 5th Grade Parents
  • Spanish-Speaking Parents

To sign up for these messages, find the image below that matches the group you'd like to join and follow the directions. (You can join more than one group!) After you send the initial text message, you'll be prompted to reply with the parent name. Please include the parent name AND YOUR CHILD'S NAME (see pink bubble below!) so we're aware of which students at each grade level have their parents receiving the messages.





If you have any questions, please email Ms. Brezek at mbrezek@bsd100.org to get more information about signing up!

And now on to the directions....


Kinder Parents: Remember to send the parent name and student name when you reply to the text that asks you who is joining!


1st Grade Parents: Remember to send the parent name and student name when you reply to the text that asks you who is joining!


Second Grade Parents: Remember to send the parent name and student name when you reply to the text that asks you who is joining!

Third Grade Parents: Remember to send the parent name and student name when you reply to the text that asks you who is joining!

Fourth Grade Parents: Remember to send the parent name and student name when you reply to the text that asks you who is joining!

Fifth Grade Parents: Remember to send the parent name and student name when you reply to the text that asks you who is joining!

We are looking forward to getting Tiger Tips for Parents going!

Ms. Brezek & Mrs. Jantz

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