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Class Procedures
Grading
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Classroom Rules |
Stoplight Behavior
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Work quietly without disturbing
others.
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Respect others and school
property.
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 Green
– You are doing great!
Yellow -
Warning - Be Careful!
Blue – Lose 5 minutes of recess and 1
nickel
Red – Lose 10 minutes of recess and 2
nickels. Note Home
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Nickel Economy
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The
children will receive nickels, with the assumption that they
will do their jobs as learners so that I can do mine as the
teacher! The
children will save up their nickels and cash them in for
their desired rewards.
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Children will lose nickels if they repeatedly violate proper
classroom behavior that hinders the learning process.
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This will not only teach responsibility, but they will also
be learning some very important money and budgeting skills.
Every Friday morning, parent volunteers help us with the
Nickel Store. Each student can save their nickels or spend
them as follows:
2 nickels (10 cents) = sticker
4 nickels (20 cents) = piece of candy
6 nickels (30 cents) = free computer
time
8 nickels (40 cents) = bring a book
to share
10 nickels (50 cents) = share time
12 nickels (60 cents) = sit at
Miss Wade’s desk
14 nickels (70 cents) =
homework pass/ 1 day’s worth
16 nickels (80 cents) = Free Center
Time
18 nickels (90 cents) = buy a book
20 nickels ($1.00) = treasure box
Lunch (11:20 -
11:50) 
and Snack
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Please put money for lunch in a sealed envelope with
your child’s name and my name.
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Snack will be in the morning.
Please provide a healthy snack for your child each day that
they can open independently.
Birthdays
As noted in the
school handbook, birthday treats are to be passed out during lunch time.
Please do not send birthday invitations for your child to pass out. This
helps to avoid hurt feelings among classmates.
Absences
If your child is
absent due to a sickness, please send a note when he/she returns in
order for the absence to be excused. Make-up work for the day(s) missed
will be sent home. It is to your child's benefit to make-up missed work.
Agenda 
The agenda is a
great communication tool. Your child will write weekly spelling words
and a daily message in the agenda. I may also write notes to you
and you may communicate small notes to me as well. It is important to
read and sign the agenda daily. Please do not send transportation
changes in the agenda.
Blue Take Home Folder
Along with the
agenda, your child will have a blue Take Home Folder that will come home
and needs to be brought back to school everyday. Important notes, lunch
money, papers done in class, and forms not sent in the Thursday Folders
will be sent home in blue folders. Every Monday, homework will be sent
in the blue folder and will need to be completed and returned in
the blue folder on Friday.
Homework
A homework sheet
will be sent home every Monday. Read the homework for the appropriate
night. Select to do the regular homework or the challenge
homework. After your child completes the day’s homework, sign to
verify that the homework was completed. Return all homework back
to your child’s teacher on Friday.
Remember that homework is primarily
given to practice skills and instill responsibility in your 1st
grader. Please use discretion while working on the homework with your
child. We want your child to be challenged but at the same time feel
successful. Have your child work at their ability.
Colorful Classmate
of the Week
Each child in our
class is special in many ways and we want to learn more! Each
student will have the opportunity to be "Colorful Classmate of the
Week." Your child will create a poster all about him/her self to share
with the class. The poster will be displayed on a bulletin board titled,
"___________ colors our class because..." More information will be sent
home on your child's special week.
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