Classroom Policies and Procedures
Mrs. Keebler’s Class Policies and Procedures
I look forward to working together with you as a team to educate your child and help in preparing your children to grow to their full potential. Here is some important information for the school year:
Attendance:
- Your student should be in their seat, ready to work at 8:55 am. Attendance is taken at 8:55 and they will be marked tardy if they arrive after 9:00. Students will be allowed to come to the classroom at 8:55 and no sooner. Tardiness is embarrassing to your student and disruptive to the class, classroom instruction must stop so that I can change the absence to a tardy in the computer.
- If your student does come in late for some reason, please walk them to the office to sign them in and to order their lunch if they are buying hot lunch. Our lunch count is taken at 8:40 with attendance and sent to the office.
- Please remember there will be some late starts on Wednesdays. These days are posted on the calendar page of this blog. Student will arrive at 9:55 on those days.
- Certain assignments will be taken home as homework if not finished in class.
- Most of the assignments can be found attached to my lesson plans on my blog. Here is the link: https://planbook.com/student?t=1021332&
- All students will be expected to memorize their math facts. They will be tested on them each Friday along with the spelling tests. Please practice these with your child at home. Memorization is crucial to further success in math.
- Throughout the year, I will be assigning all students book reports and research papers. I will be requesting parent assistance when those projects come home.
- Homework should take between 30-60 minutes each night. If it is taking longer than 60 minutes please talk to me about ways that we can reduce the homework for your child.
- If you occasionally have a family situation that prevents your child from completing their homework please write me a note so that I can excuse them from their homework. This should not be a regular occurrence.
- I would like to make myself available to talk with parents as much as possible. Please feel free to make an appointment to talk about your students progress or any concerns. Please give your child a note in the morning and I will read it as soon as possible. If you would like to talk, the best way to reach me is by email. These come to my cell phone so I will sometimes see these during the day and even at night. You can also call the office, leave a note in my box or send it with your child. My email is keeblek@dearbornschools.org.
- Problems – Please bring all problems directly to me rather than discussing them with your friends or going directly to the principal. I can only solve problems if you let me know about them. Please do not assume that your child will tell me about it, quite often students will let you think they have told me and they have not. If another student is making your child feel bad or hurting them in anyway please email me right away so that I can take care of it. We will all have a wonderful year if we openly discuss everything. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
- My Blog – https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/keebler/ My blog and Class Dojo are the main forms of communication as we have had large budget cuts and we are restricted on paper usage. Please make sure that you keep me current on your email address and you will get an email blast when I need to send information. If you do not have access to a computer, please let me know so I can print your information, but you should also have a friend in class who can call you if there is a last minute change.
- This is a NUT FREE classroom. Do not send anything with nuts!
- Snack will be held around 10:00. Students will only be allowed to eat a healthy snack.
- Healthy snacks include: fruit, vegetables, crackers, cheese, yogurt, healthy dry low sugar cereals, granola and cereal bars, 100% fruit juice, etc.
- We have a Fruit and Vegetable Chart that we use in the classroom to keep track of everyone’s healthy eating. If we reach the goal by the end of the month, the class will be rewarded with extra recess.
- Chips, cookies, candy, fruit chews, pop or sugary fruit drinks, etc. will not be eaten at snack. These are also discouraged at lunch time; please send healthy lunches with protein that will sustain them for the rest of the day.
- Please make me aware if your child has any food allergies or restrictions.
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