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Welcome to your new class!. Hello!. Hello, hello! It’s a brand new year. Filled with fun and learning, Nothing to fear. Sit back and listen, Lend me an ear, I’m your teacher for the rest of this year!. I am Mrs. Guerra. All about me!. This is my 10 th year of teaching. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WelcomWelcomee
to your new class!
Hello!Hello, hello!
It’s a brand new year.
Filled with fun and learning,
Nothing to fear.
Sit back and listen,
Lend me an ear,
I’m your teacher for the rest of this
year!
I am I am Mrs. GuerraMrs. Guerra
All about me!• This is my 10th year of teaching.
• I have taught all subjects and grades
K-5th
• This is my 3rd year at Woodway.
• I am married to Anthony and we have
a 2 year old girl, Brynlee.
• I have 1 dog, a dachshund named
Raider.
ClassroomClassroomRulesRules
Classroom Rules• Follow directions
• Keep body parts, objects, and unkind
words to
yourself
• Use equipment and materials
properly
• Stay focused during learning
activities
• Try your best
Consequences• Warning $
• Think Time/Conference $
• Miss Privilege $
• Contact Parent $
• Referral to Office $
May need to practice the right way with Mrs. Guerra at lunch or
recess
• PP Money Money SystemSystem
Money System• can earn money for making good choices
• can lose money for making bad choices
• paid for classroom job weekly
• can spend classroom money: -monthly at classroom store -at our mid-year and end of the year
auctions
• PP School School
ProceduresProcedures
Hallway• Voice Level 0
• Face forward
• Lock-it or pocket
• WALK at all times
• Pause at the PAWS
Cafeteria• Voice Level 2
• Sit flat with hands to yourself
• Use good table manners
• Raise your hand for help
• Clean your area when directed
Recess• Stay on the playground or PAW
• What is on the ground will stay on the
ground.
• Use all equipment properly.
• Keep hands and feet to yourself.
• Line up quickly when directed voice level 0.
• PP
Classroom Classroom ProceduresProcedures
Voice Levels4 - Outside
3 - Strong Speaker
2 - Table Talk
1 - Whisper
0 - No Talking
Signals
• Fingers crossed – restroom break
• Class phrase for quiet
signal ?????????
• Heart wand for quiet signal
Morning Routine• Come in quietly • Get OSCAR folder out and anything
else you need for the day
• Put up backpack (we don’t go back to our lockers
without permission)
• Make sure you have 2 pencils ready
• Start morning work
Lining Up• wait to be called• walk around desks to line up• face forward• wait quietly
Restroom BreakIf you need to go to the restroom:
•If not an emergency, wait until after my
instruction time, station time is best!
•During Instruction use our restroom signal to ask
permission.
•Place “boy” or “girl” hand sanitizer bottle on your
desk.
•walk quietly to bathroom
•use bathroom quickly:
R
Go, Flush, Wash, Toss, Leave
•get a drink quickly
•walk back quietly
•one squirt of hand sanitizer & replace
•continue working
•Voice Level 0 in the hall and restroom
Restroom Break
Pencils• Start the day with 2 sharpened pencils.
• Morning only – trade broken or dull pencil in for a sharpen one with the supply person.
• If you have your own small sharpener then you need to sharpen your 2 pencils quickly and quietly at your desk or trash can.
• Morning pencil sharpening should be done quickly and quietly.
Pencils• ONLY the supply person sharpens pencils with the
pencil sharpener and only in the mornings or at the end of the day.
• If you brought extra pencils to school, you can get them from the teacher when needed in the morning.
• If you don’t have a pencil after class begins, you will have to buy one with classroom money.$. Amount depends on the supply and demand.
Guests in Classroom
• Do not speak to guest unless spoken to
first
• Continue working-quielty
• They usually want to watch us learn and
work.
• If they need me, please wait quietly while
I help them.
Problems
• Tell me right away if someone is going to get hurt or hurt themselves.
• If is a minor problem you are having record it in the problem notebook.
• TRY to settle your problem with someone by using words BEFORE you come to me if possible.
Problem Notebook• Can only be written in during certain
“down” times.
• Only write on one page at a time.
• You may not look at or discuss anything written by others.
• Only one person can writing in the notebook at a time.
Dismissal• Wait for instructions to go to locker and
get backpack
• Take home OSCAR folder, with notes and homework inside.
• Take home Library books.
• Stand and wait quietly for dismissal.
• Stand in correct spot quickly and quietly, while waiting for teacher to lead you out.
Working in Small Groups
• Voice Level 2
• Share Materials
• Take turns
• Help each other
• Stay on TASK
Stations• stay at your station, unless for a restroom break
or getting supplies
• if you need help, ask 3 before me if they can not answer your question, come to the
teacher table and wait quietly until I can help you.
$$$
• first signal - clean up• second signal - rotate silently to the next station and begin working
Important Important timestimes
LunchLunch11:25
RecessRecess11:45
DismissalDismissal3:20
This year’s This year’s subjectssubjects
Math• Mrs. Guerra
• Multiplication
• Word Problems
• AR Math Fact Fluency
Language Arts• Reading and Writing
• Mrs. Hanshaw
• Reading Fluency and Comprehension
• AR Points
• Writing Stories
Social Studies• Mrs. Henshaw
• Community
• Famous People
Science• Mrs. Guerra
• Vocabulary
• Experiments
Computers• Practice Math Skills
• Research
• Make Products to show what we know
HomeworkHomework
Homework• AR Reading 20 minutes every night
• Math Facts Flash Cards
If you have a computer, Math Fact
Fluency-A
Practice Pages on Edmodo
What What happens happens
when I am when I am absent?absent?
When you are absent…
• We will catch you up when you get
back.
• Might be able to finish work during class or you may need to take some papers home for homework.
Any Any questionsquestions
??