WelcomWelcomee

to your new class!

Hello!Hello, hello!

It’s a brand new year.

Filled with fun and learning,

Nothing to fear.

Sit back and listen,

Lend me an ear,

I’m your teacher for the rest of this

year!

I am I am Mrs. GuerraMrs. Guerra

All about me!• This is my 10th year of teaching.

• I have taught all subjects and grades

K-5th

• This is my 3rd year at Woodway.

• I am married to Anthony and we have

a 2 year old girl, Brynlee.

• I have 1 dog, a dachshund named

Raider.

ClassroomClassroomRulesRules

Classroom Rules• Follow directions

• Keep body parts, objects, and unkind

words to

yourself

• Use equipment and materials

properly

• Stay focused during learning

activities

• Try your best

Consequences• Warning $

• Think Time/Conference $

• Miss Privilege $

• Contact Parent $

• Referral to Office $

May need to practice the right way with Mrs. Guerra at lunch or

recess

• PP Money Money SystemSystem

Money System• can earn money for making good choices

• can lose money for making bad choices

• paid for classroom job weekly

• can spend classroom money: -monthly at classroom store -at our mid-year and end of the year

auctions

• PP School School

ProceduresProcedures

Hallway• Voice Level 0

• Face forward

• Lock-it or pocket

• WALK at all times

• Pause at the PAWS

Cafeteria• Voice Level 2

• Sit flat with hands to yourself

• Use good table manners

• Raise your hand for help

• Clean your area when directed

Recess• Stay on the playground or PAW

• What is on the ground will stay on the

ground.

• Use all equipment properly.

• Keep hands and feet to yourself.

• Line up quickly when directed voice level 0.

• PP

Classroom Classroom ProceduresProcedures

Voice Levels4 - Outside

3 - Strong Speaker

2 - Table Talk

1 - Whisper

0 - No Talking

Signals

• Fingers crossed – restroom break

• Class phrase for quiet

signal ?????????

• Heart wand for quiet signal

Morning Routine• Come in quietly • Get OSCAR folder out and anything

else you need for the day

• Put up backpack (we don’t go back to our lockers

without permission)

• Make sure you have 2 pencils ready

• Start morning work

Lining Up• wait to be called• walk around desks to line up• face forward• wait quietly

Restroom BreakIf you need to go to the restroom:

•If not an emergency, wait until after my

instruction time, station time is best!

•During Instruction use our restroom signal to ask

permission.

•Place “boy” or “girl” hand sanitizer bottle on your

desk.

•walk quietly to bathroom

•use bathroom quickly:

R

Go, Flush, Wash, Toss, Leave

•get a drink quickly

•walk back quietly

•one squirt of hand sanitizer & replace

•continue working

•Voice Level 0 in the hall and restroom

Restroom Break

Pencils• Start the day with 2 sharpened pencils.

• Morning only – trade broken or dull pencil in for a sharpen one with the supply person.

• If you have your own small sharpener then you need to sharpen your 2 pencils quickly and quietly at your desk or trash can.

• Morning pencil sharpening should be done quickly and quietly.

Pencils• ONLY the supply person sharpens pencils with the

pencil sharpener and only in the mornings or at the end of the day.

• If you brought extra pencils to school, you can get them from the teacher when needed in the morning.

• If you don’t have a pencil after class begins, you will have to buy one with classroom money.$. Amount depends on the supply and demand.

Guests in Classroom

• Do not speak to guest unless spoken to

first

• Continue working-quielty

• They usually want to watch us learn and

work.

• If they need me, please wait quietly while

I help them.

Problems

• Tell me right away if someone is going to get hurt or hurt themselves.

• If is a minor problem you are having record it in the problem notebook.

• TRY to settle your problem with someone by using words BEFORE you come to me if possible.

Problem Notebook• Can only be written in during certain

“down” times.

• Only write on one page at a time.

• You may not look at or discuss anything written by others.

• Only one person can writing in the notebook at a time.

Dismissal• Wait for instructions to go to locker and

get backpack

• Take home OSCAR folder, with notes and homework inside.

• Take home Library books.

• Stand and wait quietly for dismissal.

• Stand in correct spot quickly and quietly, while waiting for teacher to lead you out.

Working in Small Groups

• Voice Level 2

• Share Materials

• Take turns

• Help each other

• Stay on TASK

Stations• stay at your station, unless for a restroom break

or getting supplies

• if you need help, ask 3 before me if they can not answer your question, come to the

teacher table and wait quietly until I can help you.

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• first signal - clean up• second signal - rotate silently to the next station and begin working

Important Important timestimes

LunchLunch11:25

RecessRecess11:45

DismissalDismissal3:20

This year’s This year’s subjectssubjects

Math• Mrs. Guerra

• Multiplication

• Word Problems

• AR Math Fact Fluency

Language Arts• Reading and Writing

• Mrs. Hanshaw

• Reading Fluency and Comprehension

• AR Points

• Writing Stories

Social Studies• Mrs. Henshaw

• Community

• Famous People

Science• Mrs. Guerra

• Vocabulary

• Experiments

Computers• Practice Math Skills

• Research

• Make Products to show what we know

HomeworkHomework

Homework• AR Reading 20 minutes every night

• Math Facts Flash Cards

If you have a computer, Math Fact

Fluency-A

Practice Pages on Edmodo

What What happens happens

when I am when I am absent?absent?

When you are absent…

• We will catch you up when you get

back.

• Might be able to finish work during class or you may need to take some papers home for homework.

Any Any questionsquestions

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