Behavior Plan

Room 13’s Classroom Policies

Dear Parents,
I’m very excited to have your child in my classroom and am looking forward to a fun year! We will be very busy working on rules and procedures the first few weeks, so I would like to take this opportunity to give you an overview of some important classroom policies which will help with communication between you and your child.

Room 13’s Classroom Rules:
1. Follow directions.
2. Respect others and their property.
3. Complete assignments with quality effort and on time.
4. Be responsible and accountable for own actions.
Our classroom’s discipline and behavior plan holds individuals, tables, and the whole class accountable for their actions.

Discipline Plan:
1st Infraction: Remind student of rule.
2nd Infraction: Head down, table warning, and/or loss of table point.
3rd Infraction: Loss of recess, processing of behavior.
Child will also fill out a problem solving form, have parents sign and return the following day. (If form is not returned the next day, phone call to parent will occur.)

Severe disruption: Send to principal (Mrs. Long), visit with counselor (Mr. Johnson), and/or place student on Behavior Contract.

Immediate loss of recess will result from hitting or threatening another student. Any and all students involved in fighting will lose recess regardless of who is at fault.

During the first few weeks of school, I’ll be quite flexible in enforcing this policy, but by the beginning of October I feel that most students will be ready to be held accountable for their required homework.

I will always consider and respect each individual student and his/her ability level. I will adjust, omit, revise, and design work that I feel the student can successfully complete.

I will notify you if your child is accumulating too many zeros, but I will not allow the opportunity to “make-up” any missing assignments. One of the hardest lesions that 3rd graders have to learn is to be responsible for their own homework.

On the back of your child’s assignment sheet you will find a reading log for the month. This is part of your child’s nightly homework. Please initial each day your child reads 20 minutes. This reading may take the form of your child reading independently, you reading with your child, or your child reading with a sibling.

Absences***
If your child is absent, he/she will have 1 day for each day absent to turn in make-up work.

Reminder***
Cursive and multiplication packets are handed out on Monday and are due on Friday of each week.