• Students copy objectives, homework and announcements every day in their planners.

• Parents/Guardians need to sign daily.

• The planner is the main form of communication from the classroom to home and vice versa.

• The front of the planner has essential information regarding attendance, dress code, as well as other school policies.

• Student codes for websites will be placed in planners.

• Each student needs a 1-2inch binder to put their planner in.

• Practice spelling/vocabulary and read AR every night.

• Homework assignments are due the following day. In order to attend “Fun Friday” (educational games during a small part of our day) students must turn in their homework all week.

• Graded homework, tests, other assignments will come home on Fridays OR Mondays in a red “Take Home” folder. Please return to school the next day.

• Discipline Policy

• Class Newsletter

• Class Temperature

• Volunteers

• Snacks

• Students must pay for lunch prior to first bell.

• Charges: students may only charge twice.

• If there is a two day balance, students will receive a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and milk.

• If you pack your child’s lunch make it a filling and healthy one.

Focus Skills include: -Main Idea- Compare/Contrast-Vocabulary- Cause/Effect- Author’s Purpose,-Sequencing- Text Structure/Features, etc.

Visit our reading curriculum website www.macmillanmh.com

• Accelerated Reading Program-10%• Class Work (reading/writing log)-10%• Tests/Projects 80%

Social Studies integrated with Reading.

• STAR test is given to determine level. Levels are different from JBE.

• Students must maintain an 85 average to earn points.

• Students must test on more than .5 point books and make 100’s in order to move up a level.

• Rewards for AR are given at the end of the 9 weeks at Honor Roll Assemblies.

• Fiction books can’t be used while testing. Non-fiction can be used, but still must be read

thoroughly prior to testing.

• Focus Skills

• Memorize Multiplication Facts!!!!!!

• Tests-90%• Classwork-10% • Visit our Math curriculum website-

http://connected.mcgraw-hill.com

• MEMORIZE Multiplication/ Division Facts!!!!

• Narrative and Expository Prompts

• Spelling-10%

• Grammar-10%

• Writing Class work/Prompts- 80%

• Preparation for 4th grade

• National Geographic Text

• Big Ideas- Science Inquiry, Solar Energy, Space Science, Plants and Animals

• Journaling

• FCAT (April)

• FAIR (Beginning, Mid, End)

• Levy Interim Assessments (Beginning, Mid, End)

• Weekly Tests

Wildcat Cash, PBS Store, PBS Events

Fun Friday

Special Areas

Field Day

PTO Program

Field Trip??- “The deadline is the deadline!”

Parent Involvement- SAC representative, Literacy Nights, classroom volunteering, etc.

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