Our daily schedule this year includes the following:
Community Time ELA (reading, writing, phonics) W.I.N. Lunch/Recess Math Specials Science/Social Studies Monday: Art w/ Mrs. DelGuidice Tuesday: Music w/ Mrs. Dent Wednesday: CHPE Thursday: CHPE Friday: Media Day ends at 3:00 BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT PRESENTATION (click the title to go to the presentation) Here are the must-know details of our classroom: Class Rules, Routines & Expectations: Our rules are simple. We follow the School Motto of: Take care of yourself, Take care of others, and Take care of this place. We practice respect for all in our classroom. We embrace and celebrate our diversity. We will be using Class Dojo as a way to earn personal and whole-class rewards, and special days! Bathroom: Children are taught to signal to me if they need the bathroom while seated on the carpet. This helps eliminate disrupting instruction to raise hand to ask to go. I will see their signal and tell them to get up to go. Other than that, while working at the tables or otherwise engaged, they are free to go as needed, get tissues, and or drink water. Assessment designed to individualize learning: Our assessments are conducted as pre-assessments, progress monitoring, and post-assessments. This allows us to individualize your child's learning experiences based upon their level of knowledge and understanding. With the information we gather, we then utilize large-group whole class instruction as well as small-group guided instruction. For more information on Progress Monitoring, please follow the link: Progress Monitoring Conference sign-ups to be done on-line: Look in your e-mail for links to sign up for a preferred date and time. Please e-mail me in the event that you are unable to make any of the times, and we will schedule an alternate date and time. Report Cards: Report cards are given three times a year. You will receive access through the Genesis Portal to your child's report card before Fall and Spring conferences, and then a final report card on the last day of school. ESL report cards are distributed with the classroom report card and need to be signed and returned for the ESL teacher. Homework: Homework is given 4 nights a week regularly during the year. Please read to or with your child for 15 minutes. Please have your child complete their homework to the best of their ability. You can go over the directions and explain it, but please let them do it themselves. Get them into the habit of writing their name and class number at the top neatly, and completing both sides of the paper. They should bring the homework back to school the following day, unless otherwise noted. If your child had trouble with the homework please draw a star in the top left corner so that I know to pull him or her for extra support. If you have any questions about the assignment, you can: use the answer sheet provided in the Parent Newsletter at the beginning of each unit, you can message me on Dojo, or you can look on the Everyday Math website linked in my website. Snack: Snack is a 15 minute eating break in the afternoon. Please send a healthy, non-messy food choice, and limit the amount of food to one or two choices. Non-messy means no fruit cups, jello, yogurt, etc. Water only, please. They can have the messy snacks and juice at lunchtime. They tend to talk, and end up wasting a lot of food. Send the snack in a separate bag labeled with their name. The snack is stored in a different place from the lunch boxes and they will appreciate not having to unpack their lunchbox every morning to find their snack. Grading/Conferences: Our Report cards are Standards-Based and use the following grading: 1- Needs Support 2- Approaching Grade Level Benchmarks 3- At Grade Level 4- Exceeds Grade Level Expectations Conferences are held twice during the year. The first one is usually during the week of Thanksgiving. There are two days, one with night conference time slots. The school has two shortened days to allow for conferences. You will receive a notice to sign up for a time. Birthdays and Class Parties: Birthdays are celebrated by a crown and a gift pencil. We sing Happy Birthday in the morning and congratulate them on being a year older. Please do not send food or goodie bags with candy/treats. Birthday invitations may not be given out in school unless every child in the class is invited in order to prevent hurt feelings. Class parties are held 3 times a year. Class parents will manage the parties. All foods to be offered will be in compliance with the District Guidelines. You should still send a snack on these days, because if your child does not like the foods offered, he/she will then still have something to eat. |
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