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CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES Classroom expectations and consequences for misbehaving will be discussed and created as a class on the first day of school. Your child will bring their own written copy home with them for you to see on the first day.
HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS According to the National Standards of Education, homework guidelines state that students should receive 10 minutes of homework for each grade that they are in. With that in mind students in fifth grade will receive a total of 50 minutes of homework per night. Written homework will only be given Monday-Thursday. Everyone deserves a rest on the weekends! On top of the written work, your child should be reading at least 30 minutes a night in order to keep up with the 25 book assignment. My approach toward daily reading is to talk about it as if it is a luxury, not an assignment. Wouldn’t it be great if we all had the time to sit down with a book for 30 minutes a day? I would like to encourage a life long habit of reading in your child.
BIRTHDAY INVITATIONS Please do not send birthday invitations to the school to be passed out unless your child has enough for the entire class. They should not be delivered during school hours. This will help alleviate any hurt feelings. It is not easy for the child who is not invited to a birthday party to cope mentally for the school day if they do not feel like they are part of the group. Thank you for your understanding. PARENT AND SCHOOL COMMUNICATION Every Friday there will be a classroom newsletter sent home with your child. Please be sure to read this over the weekend. This will let you know what your child did in school during the week as well as keep you informed of important events.
VOLUNTEER POLICY If you would like to volunteer in the classroom please let me know so we can plan the time. This will allow for you and I to discuss and plan what is expected of the students when you are in the room. I will always need parent chaperones for field trips as well as bakers from time to time so be sure to read notices that come home about this.
In order to allow students to choose what they want to discuss in the books that they will be reading toward their 25 book requirement they will be keeping a response notebook to correspond with me in. This will be in place of the usual book reports, projects, and forms that many are used to. Your child will receive their response notebook on Tuesday, September 4th with instructions. Students will need to read a minimum of 30 minutes a night in their book to keep up with the reading requirement. The books your child reads may be of his or her choice within the assigned genre for the month. The book must be approved by the teacher before your child reads it so that I can be sure it is an appropriate level. Books that are over 250 pages will count for two books. Books can not count for more than two books at a time. The response journal will be required to be written in on Monday and Thursday nights. On these nights there will be less homework in other areas. It is my hope that your child will want to respond to me more often, however it is not required. The written requirements for your child’s written response is that it deal with something that they think of as they are reading. It can be about a character, a connection to their life, a problem in a story, something they agree or disagree with, etc... If I am receiving responses that are unacceptable based on your child’s written ability your child and I will discuss it in class. This does not need to be your job. The notebook will consist of three sections. They are: 1. Reading List, 2. Books to Read, and 3. Letters. You are not responsible for filling out anything in the response journal. MONTHLY GENRES September(2) Realistic Fiction-A story using made-up characters that takes place in modern times. October(3) Fantasy-A story including elements that are impossible, such as talking animals or November(3) Historical Fiction-A fictional story with real and invented characters that takes December(2) Folktale-A story, often with a message, that was initially passed on by word of mouth. January(3) Non-fiction-All of the information is based on true facts and not made up. February(3) Biography-The story of a real person’s life that is written by another person. March(3) Genre of choice April(3) Genre of choice May/June(3) Genre of choice ***The number after each month is the total of books that need to be read that month to meet the 25 book requirement for the year. This will help your child budget their time so they are not reading 25 books the last two months of school! |
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