Rules

            The students established the following guidelines and rules for our room this year.  We hope these remind everyone in our class to make the best decisions they can to help their own learning and the learning of others.

Respect Others!

Be Ready to Learn – always!

Think About Other People Instead of Yourself!

Weekly Homework Expectations

            During a normal week students are expected to complete about 40 – 45 minutes of homework an evening. Each evening (Monday – Thursday) students are expected to read a book for at least 20 minutes.  In addition, they should study their spelling words for that week.  Rarely, will students have homework over the weekend.  There is usually one additional assignment that follows the framework below. Book projects are done at home.

Monday:  Keyboarding Homework assigned – due on Thursday.

Tuesday:  Math and other homework as assigned

Wednesday:  Math and other homework as assigned

Thursday:  Math and other homework as assigned

Friday Study Hall

            If students do not have all their weekly work completed by Friday morning, they are required to stay in during afternoon recess to catch-up. 

Clipboard and Assignment Completion

I have a clipboard placed near the homework basket which lists student names and the week’s tasks.  As work comes into the basket, I will check it off and put it aside to grade. This is a simple way for students to see what work has been completed. Encourage your student to check the clipboard frequently---it is their responsibility to know what assignments they might be missing.  In addition, missing assignments will be communicated to you on my weekly Friday update.  Please sign this update and return it to the classroom the following week.

 Weekly Newsletter and Updates

Classroom news and details about upcoming projects will be communicated to you in a letter that accompanies the weekly update every Friday.  If we have a short week then there is not always this communication piece.  Also, please utilize our classroom website for documents etc.