Welcome
by Cindy Savoie
September 25, 2008
Hi! My name is Cindy Savoie. It is my pleasure to be your child's second grade teacher this year. Here is a little bit of information about me. I have been teaching in the Central school system for 23 years. I received my teaching degree from Olivet Nazarene University. I obtained my Master's degree from St. Xavier's University in 1997. My husband Jeff and I have lived in this area our entire lives. We even graduated from Central High School! I have 2 grown children and 3 beautiful grandchildren. I consider it a great privilege to be teaching in this stellar school district.
Some notes about our classroom:
Birthday Treats
Please feel free to send in a treat for your child's birthday. If they have a summer birthday you can make arrangements for this as well.
Book Orders
I will send out book orders about once a month depending on class interest. Please send cash with your order or make the check payable to the book company.
Homework
Homework will be sent out on the first day of the week it is not necessary to send back all the papers. Simply sign the front form that says your child completed all the activities. It will usually be reading a book, working with math facts and practicing spelling words.
Classroom Rules / Discipline
To ensure your child, and all students in our classroom, the excellent learning environment they deserve, I will be using the following discipline plan in the classroom.
CLASS RULES
• Always do your best!
• Respect others
• Raise your hand to speak or leave your seat
• Follow directions the first time
• Treat others the way you would like to be treated
For those students who follow these expectations:
REWARDS
• praise
• stickers
• prizes
• treats
DISCIPLINE POLICY
There will be a chart in our classroom that will indicate your child’s behavior for each day. Your child will have a numbered slot assigned to them containing four individually colored cards. Each child begins the day with a star. As the day goes on, the star remains, unless rules are broken. When a rule is broken, they must change their card to a different color.
CARD CODE
Star: Super Behavior!
Star Flip: Warning!
Green: Missed recess (10 Minutes)
Blue: eat lunch alone,
Yellow: Miss all recess
Red: Detention/phone call home/sent to the principal’s office.
It was unfortunate that the groundhog's shadow did not cooperate this month and bring us warmer weather.
This month in 2B we
- read stories about amazing animals and began our unit on families
- wrote a story about our perfect beach vacation
- wrote poems about family
- learned how to add and subtract 2 digit numbers with regrouping
- learned about 2 famous president's, George Washington and Abe Lincoln
- learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and other famous black Americans
- began studying solids, liquids and gases
(wow we were certainly busy during this short month!)
As a reminder for this nine weeks our AR point goal has changed. It is still 3 points for classroom goal but is now 8 points to make the AR party.
Thank you for continuing to read and study math facts and spelling words at home. It really makes a difference when home and school work together to help children succeed.
Spring is just around the corner!
Mrs. Savoie
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