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What To Ask Kids After School?

Sally Grylls-Thomas —

We often hear parents say they love our Facebook because they provide a "𝘸π˜ͺ𝘯π˜₯𝘰𝘸 π˜ͺ𝘯𝘡𝘰 𝘡𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘀𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 π˜₯𝘒𝘺", because when they ask their children "How was your day?" or "What did you do today?" the responses are sometimes "It was ok/good" or "I forgot".

Here are some different ideas that may work.... (although, bear in mind that a full school day is often pretty tiring for most children)

πš€πšžπšŽπšœπšπš’πš˜πš—πšœ πšƒπš˜ π™°πšœπš” πšˆπš˜πšžπš› π™Ίπš’πšπšœ π™Έπš—πšœπšπšŽπšŠπš π™Ύπš π™°πšœπš”πš’πš—πš β€œπ™·πš˜πš  πš†πšŠπšœ πšˆπš˜πšžπš› π™³πšŠπš’?”

1. Who did you help today?
2. Tell me about the best part of your day.
3. What was the hardest thing you had to do today?
4. Who did you play with at lunchtime? What did you play?
5. What's the biggest difference between this year and last year?
6. Can you show me something you learned (or did) today?
7. What did you eat for lunch?
8. What was the funniest thing that happened today?
9. Did anyone do anything super nice for you?
10. What was the nicest thing you did for someone else?
11. Who/what made you smile today?
12. What challenged you today?
13. What would you rate your day on a scale of 1 to 10? Why?
14. If one of your classmates could be the teacher for the day who would you want it to be? Why?
15. If you had the chance to be the teacher tomorrow, what would you teach the class?
16. Tell me something you learned about a friend today.
17. When did you feel most proud of yourself today?
18. What do you think you should do/learn more of at school?
19. Did anyone do anything silly to make you laugh?
20. What did you do today that was creative?
21. What is the most popular game at break times?
22. Did you tell anyone β€œthank you?”
23. Tell me something you know today that you didn’t know yesterday.
24. How were you brave today?
25. What are you looking forward to tomorrow?
26. If you could change one thing about your day, what would it be?
27. What is your favourite part of school?
28. When did you work with others today, and what were you doing?
29. What have you become more confident doing this year?
30. In what ways were you kind to others today?