Welcome to 2D!!!
by Barbie Boudreau
August 23, 2010
Welcome back to school! I am very excited to start a new year and get the opportunity to work with your child. After only one day of school, I can tell that this class is a great group of kids! On this web page, you will find some information that will be helpful in the upcoming year.
Classroom Rules for 2D:
1. Have all appropriate materials and supplies at your desk and ready before the bell rings.
2. Respect the people, equipment, and property of 2D.
3. Adjust your voice level to suit the activity.
4. Follow directions the first time.
5. Raise your hand and wait to be called on.
6. Follow all school rules.
Classroom Consequences:
1. Warning
2. Miss 5 minutes of recess
3. Miss 10 minutes of recess
4. Sit by self at lunch
5. Miss whole recess
6. Send to principal's office and/or after school detention
Grading Scale:
100-92 S+
91-77 S
76-70 S-
69 U
Open House: September 21st from 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Parent/Teacher Conferences:
Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held the first week of November. You can sign up for conferences at Open House. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns throughout the year. I will return phone calls at the end of the school day or respond to emails at bboudreau@cusd4.org.
Communications Folder:
Your child will bring home a red communications folder each night. All graded papers should be reviewed and cleaned out nightly. Important papers or notes that need to be returned will be on the "return to school" side of the folder. A spelling list will be put in the front of the folder so that you can practice the words each night and it can be used at school as well.
Homework:
In class assignments that are not finished in a reasonable amount of time will be finished during our second recess in the afternoon. We tell the students that they must earn the second recess by working hard in class. Students that do not finish will be helped in a study hall during that time. Homework to be done at home will start in October. I will send home more information at that time.
Newsletter:
Please look for a weekly newsletter each Friday in the red communications folder. I will have the next week's spelling list; accelerated reader (AR) points; what we learned that week; and important reminders in each one.
AR (Accelerated Reading Program):
This year your child will be doing AR testing. This is where your child will bring home a library book that is in their reading level, read it, and take a test on it in the computer lab. We will be in the computer lab on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The computerized test is five multiple choice questions for short stories and ten questions for chapter books. Short stories should be read three times before testing. Chapter books need only be read once. AR books should be read each night at home. This lets us see how well your child is comprehending stories that they are reading on their own. Students earn points for each AR test that they pass. Short stories are worth .5 points and chapter books at this level are generally worth 1.0 points. Students need to meet the classroom goal to get an S on the AR section of their report card. Classroom goals change every nine weeks. Check the newsletter for the points needed each quarter. If your child reads five points over the classroom goal, they can earn a party at the end of each quarter. We call this the party goal. Your child must read at home to be able to reach the party goal. Set fifteen minutes aside each night for your child to read independently or aloud to you. The more they read, the better reader they become.
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