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Classroom Information
The following information may answer many of the questions you might have about your child’s new classroom. We are delighted to be working with you and your child this year!
Class Conduct
We believe in positively reinforcing appropriate student behavior. We try to help students become aware of and take responsibility for their own behavior. The students helped to develop our class standards or rules of conduct. These standards are based on a philosophy of respect for one another. The standards/rules agreed upon are:
1. Treat others the way you want to be treated.
This means:
Be kind.
Use kind language.
Respect each other.
Help each other.
2. Always do your best.
3. Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself.
4. Only one person talks at a time.
5. Follow directions.
We reinforce positive behavior with praise, stickers, Jolly Ranchers, special privileges, free time, and other assorted rewards. I use more or less of these as needed. Usually the intrinsic pleasure of a job well done becomes reward enough. Typically as the year progresses, fewer and fewer other rewards are needed. I will remind, redirect and give students verbal warnings when rules are not followed.
If the inappropriate behavior continues, the student will need to conference with us and develop an Action Plan to Refocus. In this plan, the student, with our help if needed, will come up with a concrete set of steps to solve the problem. The student and the teacher confer during recess to develop the Action Plan. If the student needs more than one action plan in a week, the student and the teacher will confer again Friday afternoon and a parent will be contacted. If further inappropriate behaviors occur our carding system will go into effect. Once a student receives a card you will be contacted.
Daily Schedule
We will develop a very predictable and comfortable routine within the classroom. With a comfortable routine, the children always know what to expect and what is expected of them. We can then change and adjust as needed to meet everyone’s learning needs.
Restrooms
We go to the restrooms as a class before school, before recesses and before lunch. At the beginning of the year, we explain to the class that it is important to try to use the restroom when the class goes. We generally do not let students go to the restroom during group lesson time, so that no instruction is missed. If your child has a bladder infection (or any other extenuating circumstances) PLEASE let us know, so that we can save all of us the embarrassment of an accident!
