8/16 AND 8/17 Parents and students,
If you need to contact me then please use e-mail for the quickest response. Please make sure to put the students and parents full name and a phone number I can call back as well. Inform me what your concern is so I can be prepared when I call you back or e-mail. Everyone should sign up for my blog posts, as these posts will have the assignments, test dates, and other information you need to know about. I look forward to teaching your kids about our interesting world. It is the students job to write down in their planner every single day they enter my class. They are to copy this information word for word and have you as the parent look at it and initial it showing me that you are aware of what is going on in class. This is a mandatory requirement and will result is a grade and it is also looked at for award parties, so please make sure your child is coping my board daily and you initial it as well.
THURSDAY: Take supplies up; cover school and classroom rules; inform students of award parties they can attain throughout the year; go over that every child copies assignments from the board and have parents initial at least once a week; Cover the rules about our classroom journal and its upkeep, major test grade; Explain the use of the computer in my class, each student will have a copy of the textbook available to them through their chrome book; I do not have copies of books, it is all online and you do not have to have internet to read it; Cover regular grades and test grades; cover word walls and the consequences for not doing them; Policy on lying and cheating DO NOT DO IT!!! If you copy you will receive two zeros and detention after school and you can not make up cheating grades; If you fail a test or make a zero, you have one night to correct it and bring to me the NEXT SCHOOL DAY completed and signed by the parent!!!
FRIDAY- Finish introduction procedures; TAKE UP SUPPLIES; go to library and get NEW Chrome Books; Receive instructions on how to download book today if time allows.
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MONDAY: FINISH SUPPLIES: Continue on preparing classroom journal, notebook, filling envelope, classroom folder; ETC; Practice signing up on your computer to read the textbook. Whenever you are reading out of the text and come across a bold term then you are to write that word down and write the definition behind it. You can do your word walls this way a lot of times.
TUESDAY: Talk about Self-Flag and work on it; Cover Word Wall #1 and due date along with Test date; Explain the way to do the journal AGAIN; Start reading Chapter 1 Lesson 1 and explain to the class how we do sections from the chapters throughout the year. Have students start taking notes on own/ I will go over the correct way to take notes in class for the year.
WED. Continue to read and taking notes over Ch1 Section 1; After taking notes then need do Chapter 1 Sections 1 page 21 (1-5); Once you are done, compare your work to others around you.
THURSDAY- Finish Chapter 1 Section 1; Cover together as a class; Read Chapter 1 section 2 by reading first then doing notes; Then Ill put you in a small group and let you all compare each others notes and come up with best possible notes; Then you can start on page 31 (1-5) in your group;
FRIDAY- Continue working on Section 2 notes and questions; Word Wall #1 is due 8/30 ,Test 8/31
