WELCOME TO MEET THE TEACHER 2015

Ms. Staples & Mrs. Sandlin

CONFERENCE TIME

O

ur conference time is

f

rom 9:45-10:30

MORNING PROCEDURES

Students can be dropped off beginning at 7:15.

PLEASE do not drop off students in the bus circle or the faculty parking lot.

Parents who come into the building throughout the day must sign in at the office.

LATE ARRIVALS/ABSENCES

T

he tardy bell rings at 8:00 AM.

I

f your child is absent, send a note on

the day he/she returns.

GOING HOME

I

f your child will be going home a

different way, please send a note or call

the office before 2:00.

SNACKS AND PARTIES

Children may bring a healthy snack to class.

There are three class parties per year: Winter Holidays, Valentine’s Day & End of School.

You can drop off or send cookies or cupcakes to school for your child’s birthday. We will serve the treat after lunch.

DAILY FOLDER/THURSDAY FOLDER

Yellow Daily Folder will go home each day and come back to school each day. Check it for notes, and assignments. A reading log and a list of spelling activities should be in the yellow folder at all times.

Each Thursday, your child will bring home a red folder with graded papers and other important information. Please return the signed graded work for both classes and red folder back on Friday. Teachers will keep all graded work until the end of each semester.

Please return red folders on Friday.

The Peek of the Week will be on my website each Friday, unless a printed version is requested.

TEACHER WEBPAGE

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copy of the Peek of the Week can be

found on my teacher webpage.

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& Mrs. Sandlin

CONDUCT GOALS

1. Disruptive talking/behavior 2. Not following rules 3. Poor restroom behavior 4. Poor hallway behavior 5. Out of seat w/o permission 6. Disrespectful 7. Poor cafeteria behavior

WORK HABIT GOALS1. Not following directions

2. Not completing class work

3. Not completing homework

4. Not returning materials/papers

5. Not having supplies

6. Not using time wisely

7. Not cleaning your desk area for other class

DISCIPLINE

Conduct /Work Habits count as two separate grades. Grades are E,S,N,U.

Positive reinforcement can include notes, verbal praise, Stallion Slips, and stickers for rewards.

Failure to abide by these rules can result in loss of recess, parent contact, and office referrals.

GRADES

Available on Family Access

Grading Scale

• A = 90 – 100• B = 80 – 89• C = 75 – 79• D = 70 - 74

Redo work- If a child receives a failing grade on a daily assignment that is below 70, they will get the chance to redo the assignment in class after a re-teach for up to a 70.

Test/Quiz - If a child receives a failing grade on a test or quiz, they will get a chance to retake the test or quiz, after a re-teach for up to a 70.

CONTENT AREAS

M

s. Staples teaches Math, Science, Social

Studies, & Health

M

rs. Sandlin teaches Reading, Language,

Spelling and Handwriting

P

lace Value

M

ath Vocabulary

P

roblem solving

M

ultiplication

D

ivision

G

raphs

MATH

M

easurement

T

ime

M

oney

G

eometry

F

ractions

P

robability

M

atter

S

imple Systems

S

cience Process Skills

T

he Solar System

H

abitats

SCIENCE

F

orce

A

daptations

I

nherited Traits

W

ater Cycle

SOCIAL STUDIES

Mapping Skills

Communities

Citizenship

Black history

Inventors and inventions

Government/Economics

Explorers

Culture

Women’s Histories

READING

Guided Reading (Small group)

Independent Reading

Shared Reading (Whole group instruction)

Read Aloud

Literacy Work Stations

Strategies include schema, visualizing, asking questions, making predictions, inferring, determining importance and synthesizing.

Reading skills include genre, cause and effect, main idea and details, text evidence, plot structure, text structure, summary of fiction and informational text, sequencing, context clues, author’s purpose, predicting, and analyzing characters.

LANGUAGE

6 +1 Traits of Writing

• Ideas• Organization• Word Choice• Voice• Sentence Fluency• Conventions• Presentation

The Writing Process

Journaling

Grammar

Penmanship

SPELLING

A list of spelling words is on the Peek of the Week each Friday.

A list of spelling activities is located in their spelling spiral. Students should complete at least 3 activities each week in the Spelling Spiral.

Spelling homework will be turned in and checked each Friday.

HANDWRITING

S

tudents should print legibly on all class work.

S

tudents are encouraged to practice cursive writing

in class.

G

rading scale: S, N, or U

STAAR TESTING DATES

T

he Math and Reading STAAR test

will be the week of May 9th.

QUESTIONS???

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HANK YOU FOR COMING!