October Weekly Update

Week of Monday, October 5th - Friday, October 9th, 2026

📣 Families! Here's What's Happening This Week:

Keep parents & caregivers in the loop with a template that helps you communicate your weekly activities & assignments.

We've added placeholders for the info home adults most want to know! And here's a Pro Tip: Add lots of pictures of students--it's the key to parent engagement!

📆 Our Schedule This Week

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🙌 Weekly Shout-Outs

Here’s a template with resources and activities to explore all that is magical about summer.

📝 Assignments

🔖 Add assignments & docs

Share procedures for assignments & include a link if they can be submitted virtually. Here, we link to an assignment sheet.

🗓 Coming Up!

Event Information

Halloween Parade

Families invited to watch our students parade in costume (no scary/bloody/violent costumes allowed!)

When?

Friday, 30 Oct 2026, 08:45 am

Where?

Our school

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💡 Reminders

1. IMPORTANT DATES 📆

List 'em here! Due dates, parent conferences, school closures, half-days, special programs, etc.

2. ASK YOUR CHILD ABOUT ❓

Help home adults support classroom activities by providing them with a few discussion prompts to ask their children.

3. RESOURCES FOR YOUR CHILD 🤗

Is your child struggling with coming to school or with homework? Here's how we can help:

Be clear and specific about spelling out resources for home adults each week.
Link to contact info for the school counselor.

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Teacher Teacher

Make sure to include all your contact information.

Email: teacher@youremail.org
Website: www.schoolname.org
Text/phone: 555-555-5555

Smore

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📣 Families! Here's What's Happening This Week:

📆 Our Schedule This Week 📆 Our Schedule This Week

🙌 Weekly Shout-Outs 🙌 Weekly Shout-Outs

🗣 Unit of the Week ✍🏽 🗣 Unit of the Week ✍🏽

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The Unit

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📝 Assignments 📝 Assignments

🗓 Coming Up! 🗓 Coming Up!