Ms. Decker’s Third- Grade Class

Welcome, students!

1st GradeBack to School Night

Mrs. Fuchs2013-2014

Our Classroom

• Learner centered

• Safe place to be a diverse individual

Parent Involvement

• Check and sign your child’s Daily folder and Reading folder each day.

• Stay connected to our classroom by reading the newsletter and updates on the website regularly.

• Sign up for “e-news” to get news from the office.

• Join PTA !!• Kiss Goodbye

Snacks/Birthdays/Parties• Healthy Snacks – Students bring a snack from home and eat it

anytime after 9:00. Please send snacks where sugar and fat contents are listed fourth or more on the ingredients.

• Did you know you can limit the number of snacks your kids get from the lunchroom?

• Water Bottles with easy close lids and names written on them (no caps please).

• Birthdays – Let me know what day you would like to celebrate. Parties begin at 2:20.

• Class Parties – All parents must sign in through Raptor. You can sign up on BPE website before coming and a pre-printed

label will be waiting for you when you arrive. Morning & afternoon parties this year.

Homework

• Blue Daily Folder (homework, notes, lunch money, etc.)

• Expect homework Monday through Thursday• Wildcat Calendar• Read every night• We are learning to be responsible while it is “affordable”.

Curriculum• Reading – Assessments

• Screener• BAS• Running Records• Book levels ? ? ?

• Math – Problem Solving• Word Work

• Sight words• Word Study through word sorts

• Writing – Writer’s Workshop• Science & Social Studies

• Integrated when possible

*Students’ work is mostly done in notebooks

Thursday Folder

• What might be in the Thursday folder?• Going Green on Thursday! What email should

these NOT be sent to?• Sign and return each Friday

Website

• Newsletter• Announcements• Schedules• Class list with first names only

Library

• Every Thursday from 10:10-10:40

• Please remind your child to bring books back to school on the library day. Students will check out books each week.

Behavior Procedures

• Class meetings and goals• Responsible for Choices - Good choices;Good

life, Bad choices; Bad life.• Our 1 rule: I can’t cause a problem for

myself or others!• Affordable Mistakes• Classroom Management– Tribes, Love & Logic, Leader in Me

Communication

• Email – best!• Phone (classroom vs. office) before 2:00.• Notes• Wildcat Calendar

Open communication is vital to your student’s success.

Conferences & Report Cards

• Fall Conference – No set day this year. They will be held, after school or on our early release day, Sept. 25

• Report Card Explanation and rigor added

Arrival & Dismissal

• School begins promptly at 7:45 am. Students who are not in their chairs at 7:45 will be counted tardy.

• Dismissal is 2:40 pm for 1st grade students

Sickness

• Please make sure your child is fever free for 24 hours before they return to school.

• Use good judgment about keeping your child home from school.

• School Messenger – automated system that will call when your child is absent. Report absence on-line to eliminate being bother

Successful Students

• Help your child prepare for a successful school day, this includes getting them here before 7:45.

• Read every night! Help your child become a better reader by asking questions about books they read.

• For math practice at home, review number recognition, addition, subtraction, graphs, measurement, shapes, etc.

• Put a change of clothes in your child’s back pack for emergencies and be sure to include their name on any clothes, sweaters, jackets… they bring to school.

Thank you for coming tonight.

Please sign up for the Fall conference before you leave.