Sending and receiving e-mail messages has the bonus of helping every child to feel special, says Veronica Carter
Ihave been using e-mail very regularly in my reception class for over a year now. You only have to see the children's faces light up when a message comes in to know that this is something worthwhile.
The key to its success is that the children are communicating with people they genuinely want to communicate with. Messages are exchanged with mums and dads, grannies and granddads and uncles and aunts. Everybody gets a turn we can always arrange for older siblings or friends within school to send a message to a child, or have the head write to the class and arrange for one of the children who does not get messages from home to reply. A lot of parents have access to e-mail at work even if they do not have it at home.
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