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Questions
to Ask Your Kids After School

general
Rate your day on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best day ever)
If your day at school was an emoji, which one would it be?
Tell me about the best part of your day
When were you the happiest at school today?
What made you smile today?
What made you laugh today?
Tell me about your least favorite part of your day
What was the hardest thing you had to do today?
Did you raise your hand in class today? What did you ask?
What are you looking forward to at school tomorrow?
Is there anything your teacher taught that you didn’t understand?
Tell me something you know today that you didn’t know yesterday
Of everything you learned today, what will be the most useful when you’re a grown-up?
If you could change one thing about your day, what would it be?
What made your teacher happy today? Did anything make him/her upset?
If you could be the teacher tomorrow, what would you teach?
If you were the teacher, how would you run class differently?
If you had a camera at school today, which picture would you have taken?
If you had $500 to spend on your classroom, what would you buy for it?
If your class could get a class pet, what would you want it to be?
What did you do that was creative today?
What was the hardest rule to follow today?
How were you helpful today?

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 If you could start your school day over, what would you not do? What would you change?
What did your teacher write on the black/white board today?
If I called your teacher, what would she tell me about your effort today?
Were you bored at all today? When?
Did you get frustrated at all today? Why?
Did you draw, write, or build anything today? Describe it!
What silent reading book are you reading right now?
What story did your teacher read? Did you like it?
What event at school are you looking forward to the most?
Is there anything you wish your teacher knew about you?
Describe your favorite part of your classroom to me
What’s in your desk right now?
What’s your favorite part of your school building? Least favorite?

subjects
What subject did you enjoy the most today?
What subject did you enjoy the least today?
What happened in (PICK A SUBJECT) today?
If you had to learn only one subject for the rest of the school year, what would it be?
If your teacher could only teach one subject, what would you want it to be?

classmates/friends
Did any of your classmates do something funny today?
Who is the friendliest person in your class?
Who is someone at school that could use a friend?
Did anyone get in trouble today?
Who in your class would make the best teacher? Worst teacher?
Were any of your classmates absent today?
If you could switch seats with anyone in class, who would it be?
If you could choose, who would you sit next to in class?

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 Is there anyone in your class you think you could be nicer to?
Who in your class would you like to know better?
Did anyone get sad in class today?
Did the kids in your class show respect for the teacher and rules today?
Who did you like talking to the most today?
Who in your class is most like you? Why?
Who in your class is your exact opposite?

Lunch
Who did you sit with at lunch?
If you could have traded lunches with anyone today, who would it have been?
Rate your lunch on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best lunch ever)
Was anyone sitting alone at lunch today? What can you do about it?
Who would you like to sit with at lunch that you’ve never sat with before?

Recess/play
Who did you play with at recess today?
What games did you play at recess?
Was anyone playing alone at recess today? How can you help?
If you could only play one thing at recess for the rest of the year, what would it be?
Who would you like to play with at recess that you’ve never played with before?
Did you have free play time today? What did you play?

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 Of everything you learned
Rate your day on a scale
today, what will be the
of 1 to 10 (10 being the best
most useful when you’re
day ever)
a grown-up?

What made you What made you

smile today? laugh today?

If your day at school

When were you the
was an emoji, which one
happiest at school today?
would it be?

Tell me about your least What was the hardest

favorite part of your day thing you had to do today?

Did you raise your hand What are you looking

in class today? What did forward to at school
you ask? tomorrow?

Is there anything your Tell me something you

teacher taught that you know today that you
didn’t understand? didn’t know yesterday

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 If you could change one
Tell me about the
thing about your day,
best part of your day
what would it be?

What made your teacher If you could be the

happy today? Did anything teacher tomorrow,
make him/her upset? what would you teach?

If you had a camera at

If you were the teacher,
school today, which
how would you run class
picture would you
differently?
have taken?

If you had $500 to spend If your class could get a

on your classroom, what class pet, what would you
would you buy for it? want it to be?

What did you do that What was the hardest

was creative today? rule to follow today?

If you could start your

How were you school day over, what
helpful today? would you not do? What
would you change?

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What did your teacher If I called your teacher,
write on the black/white what would she tell me
board today? about your effort today?

Were you bored at Did you get frustrated

all today? When? at all today? Why?

Did you draw, write, or What silent reading

build anything today? book are you reading
Describe it! right now?

What story did your What event at school

teacher read? Did you are you looking forward
like it? to the most?

Is there anything you Describe your favorite

wish your teacher knew part of your classroom
about you? to me

What’s your favorite

What’s in your
part of your school
desk right now?
building? Least favorite?

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What subject did you What subject did you
enjoy the most today? enjoy the least today?

If you had to learn only

What happened in one subject for the rest
(PICK A SUBJECT) today? of the school year, what
would it be?

Did any of your

If your teacher could only
classmates do
teach one subject, what
something funny
would you want it to be?
today?

Who is the friendliest Who is someone at school

person in your class? that could use a friend?

Who in your class would

Did anyone get in
make the best teacher?
trouble today?
Worst teacher?

Were any of your If you could switch seats

classmates absent with anyone in class, who
today? would it be?

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If you could choose, Is there anyone in your
who would you sit next class you think you could
to in class? be nicer to?

Who in your class would Did anyone get

you like to know better? sad in class today?

Did the kids in your class

Who did you like talking
show respect for the
to the most today?
teacher and rules today?

Who in your class is Who in your class is

most like you? Why? your exact opposite?

If you could have traded

Who did you sit lunches with anyone
with at lunch? today, who would it
have been?

Rate your lunch on a Was anyone sitting alone

scale of 1 to 10 (10 being at lunch today? What can
the best lunch ever) you do about it?

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Who would you like to sit
Who did you play
with at lunch that you’ve
with at recess today?
never sat with before?

Was anyone playing

What games did
alone at recess today?
you play at recess?
How can you help?

If you could only play one Who would you like

thing at recess for the to play with at recess
rest of the year, what that you’ve never
would it be? played with before?

Did you have free

play time today?
What did you play?

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