• Please sign-in

• Get copies of Back to School Packet

~ One per family please ~**

• Introductions

– Mrs. Gannon-Jacobsen

• Math/lIFE Science

• Room C-1

– Mrs. HARRIS & MRS. NEIGHBOr

• Language Arts/Social Studies

• Room C-2

Welcome to Back-to-School Night

Tonight’s Purpose:

To provide you with specific information

about the goals and expectations for

this school year. Our presentations

should answer most of your questions,

but if some remain unanswered, and/or

you would like to speak privately, please

let us know on the sign-in sheet and we

will contact you.

Failure is not an option!

This year’s District Motto:

learning is our SUPERPOwer

DCIS Renaissance Reward Program

Student of the Month

*These rewards are often covered out of fundraiser funds.

So, PLEASE support our PTO & fundraiser(s) !!

School-wide Rewards*

3.0-3.59 GPA (honor roll)

3.6-3.99 GPA (high honor roll)

4.0 GPA (Principal’s honor roll)

Student Responsibilities

– Books

• Textbooks—Leave them at home (Mom/Dad)

• Workbooks/BINDERS —Bring them to school

• Chromebooks

– Privilege for 7th & 8th grade students

– Kept in backpacks—keep them safe

• What’s in backpacks with the chromebook?

• Be Careful with backpack (set, don’t throw)

• Look-alike backpacks

– Supplies

• See supply list

• Classroom wish List—Grab a ”WISH” FROM DOOR

Student Responsibilities (cont.) – Organization

• Notes, Tools, Assignments, PACK Planner

•Backpack/Binder checks

– Student Fees/donations

– PACK

•Mondays—Character education

– Whole school—Book, assemblies, no bullying

– Classroom—word of the Month

•Tuesday-Friday—Academic support/enrichment

– Math & Language Arts

– Placement can be Adjusted throughout the year

This is a Big Year—

Getting Ready for 8th Grade & BEYOND – READY for 8th by the End of the year

•CJSFCSF

•High honor roll, Promotion awards

– New perspective—getting closeR to High School

•H.S. recommendations (College prep)

•Driving, dating, clubs & sports

– Easy to lose focus

•become much more concerned with peers

than parents

•Brains are changing

– CREATE A cell phone PLAN @ home

MAKE TIME TO UNPLUG

Eight hours This is the amount of time most

teens are spending on an electronic device

every single day, according to the Kaiser

Family Foundation. Between phones, laptops,

TV, and tablets, this generation is more

connected than ever before. While there

are many great benefits to technology,

there are lots of advantages to taking a

break from it, too.

Classroom/School-wide Discipline

• Gum Chewing

• Cell Phones/I-Pods, etc.

• Dress Code

• Academic dishonesty

• Listed

– PACK Planner (school)

– On board (classroom)

SCHOLARLINESS

– Learning

•Regular Attendance—be here!

•Focus during lesson and ask questions

•Use class time wisely

•Ask for help—speak up for yourself

•Use Available resources

•Take an Active Role in Learning

– Homework

•20 minutes per core subject + reading

•Less in one/more in the other

•Use class time wisely

– Projects

math & Science • Common Core Standards—7th grade team

• Homework in PACK Planner & on Website

• 20 min. Per core subject (ON-TASK time)

• Turned-in During Homeroom daily

• On-Line Resources

• Textbooks

– Math—2 workbooks

– Science—2 workbooks & 1 Text book

Math is cool!

Questions????

Thank you