The following was Shared by Melanie Olsen, from her seventh grade team. Please consider using this concept in the future and be thankful to teachers who are willing to share these jewels.

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We are writing to ask you to help us become partners with you in your child's education. We will have your child for a short time in this trip through life---just one fleeting school year---and we want to make a contribution that lasts a lifetime.

We know our teaching must begin with making your child feel at home in our classrooms, and with helping all the children come together into a learning community made up of unique individuals, each with his or her own learning style and interests and history and hopes. Would you help us teach well by taking a quiet moment to write us about your child? What is your child like? What are your child's interests? We want to know how your child thinks and plays and how you see your child as a learner and a person.

Respectfully yours,

(the letter was ended with a listing of each team member and their teaching assignment)

Ex: Sara Smith, social studies and team leader

Joe Blow, science teacher

Etc.