Policies

Attendance

It is important for your child to be at school between 8:15-8:25. Our class instruction begins promptly at 8:25. When your child arrives late, he/she will miss either part of the instructional time or other directions for activities. Thanks for your help with this matter.

Social Skills and Community Building
Daily class meetings, based on The Morning Meeting Book by Roxann Kriete and The Caring Classrooms Curriculum, both 4j adoptions. Good stuff!

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Homework

Reading: There is no home component, (or homework) during the first 2 weeks of school to allow children time to acclimate to the reading program…and to a long day of school as well.  Once we begin Lesson 1 you can look for a home component in your student’s Monday envelope.  This will include spelling words, sight words and vocabulary words on the weekly newsletter as well as a  4 small stories to practice reading.

Reading Homework will be given on Mondays and does NOT need to be returned to class.  Keep all reading stories at home for continued practice.

Nightly reading forms are sent home at the beginning of each month.  Please read at least 10 min. a night and record your minutes on the given sheet.  This reading can include reading homework, reading to self and/or parent reading to student.  Please return these forms at the end of each month.

Math:  A practice page for math will be sent home weekly in the Monday Folder.  This is meant as a very short at home practice and does NOT need to be returned at the end of the week.

Spelling:  Students will have a weekly spelling test on Friday. If there is no school on Friday, the test will be given on Thursday.

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   Schedule  

PE: Tuesday and Friday (Please wear appropriate shoes to be able to participate)

Music: Monday

Library:  Thursday

Snack:  Snack is every morning before morning after recess. Donations of snack would be greatly welcomed. Snacks should be healthy foods that are quick and easy to eat.

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Birthdays

Your child may bring in a snack to share with the class if they wish. Please give me a few days notice so I can schedule appropriately. Due to the district health policy, only healthy snacks will be allowed.

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Book Orders

The Scholastic Book Clubs offers children a selection of quality paperback books at very reasonable prices. Order forms will be sent home periodically throughout the year. If you wish to order any books (Ordering books is always optional), please fill out the order form and include a check for your purchase made out to Scholastic. Return it to school in an envelope with your child’s name or place an order online.

You can also ORDER ONLINE.  Every online order earns our class free books!  Class Code: GZ4PH