Elementary Edition is a two-page newsletter (on legal sized paper) that is published five times a year (although schools can choose to do fewer issues).

The lead stories in past issues have included:

• Readers are made, not born: How young children learn to read

• How children learn to write

• Math literacy: Why kids need it now more than ever

• Science is for everyone

• Safe surfing: Tips for securing your child's journey through cyberspace

• Summer solutions: Ideas for keeping the learning going during the summer months

• Homework: Supporting your child without getting too involved

• Multiple intelligences: Tapping into how your child learns best

• Healthy bodies make for strong minds

• The very important role of the arts in education

Click on the linked items below to see PDF versions of some back issues of Elementary Edition. 

• Mohonasen School District January 2003

• Amsterdam City School District April 2003

These newsletters include practical ideas for parents on how to help their children at home, as well as books, web sites and other resources to learn more about the main topic.

Each year we come up with a new story list, always tapping into the teachers and administrators at our client schools for their ideas on what elementary parents want to know more about. We also give schools the opportunity to choose from the lead stories in any of our back issues. 

Besides the generic stories, there is space for each school to include its own stories and information. The school-specific stories and listings typically start on page 1 and continue on page 4. This information can either submitted to us by the school, or one of our communication specialists can come into your building to interview people and write the stories.

Schools distribute the newsletters in one of three ways:

• Mailing home to parents

• Sending them home with students

• Including them in the student report cards

The cost of this newsletter for the 2005-06 school year is:

• $245 per issue for districts that already subscribe to the Communications Service. This price covers the lead feature story and layout of each issue. Printing is additional, based on the quantities needed. Under this arrangement, your back page copy is written by a communications specialists in the time allotted under your current contract with the Communications Service.
  

• For districts that don't otherwise subscribe to the Communications Service there are two choices:

1. $345 per issue (plus printing) if district personnel write the school-specific back page copy; or

2. $845 per issue (plus printing) if you hire one of our communications specialists to write the school-specific back page copy (10 hours writing/issue)

Please contact us to view more copies of the newsletter and to get a specific price quote for your district that includes printing.