If Meet & Greet or Open House is coming up soon, you may want to add this fun idea to your repertoire! The idea is that you send parents, students, or both on a scavenger hunt around your classroom. By the end of the scavenger hunt, families have completed all necessary paperwork, received necessary information, and signed up for volunteer opportunities within the school. Of course, you can change each station to fit your needs and event. But today, I thought I’d give you an inside look at mine! We host Meet & Greet the Friday before school starts each year. Students receive their teacher placement and visit the classrooms with their families. As a teacher, there are so many things I need filled out, dropped off, taken home, etc. by the end of this one hour. This year, the morning was glitch free and convenient because parents led the way! My Writing Center was the first stop. Parents walked right in my door, signed in, and found their child’s folder. The scavenger hunt was stapled inside the folder. I also placed each student’s “Detective Badge” inside the folder. They wore it during the Meet and Greet so that I Continue Reading