Find information about policies and procedures of Third Grade here and
Social Studies Class.
- PolyEnvelopes
- Lunches
- Snacks
- Dismissal
- Spelling
- Schedule of Events in Social Studies
PolyEnvelopes
The Take Home Envelope will come home every night. Please make
sure to empty completed classwork, old tests and quizzes, and
notes to be read and kept at home EVERY NIGHT. Any notes or
homework papers (including things needing to go to the office)
should be sent back to school on in this envelope.
Lunches
If your child will be bringing their lunch in a brown paper bag
or a plastic grocery bag, please make sure their name is written
on it before they come to school. All the lunches are placed in
a basket at the beginning of school. Please make sure your
child's name is also printed on their reusable lunch boxes.
Snacks
Snacks need to be sent to school in a seperate bag from your
child's lunch. Snacks are kept in the lockers while lunches are
placed in a basket at the beginning of the day. Snack should
consist of ONE small, healthy item and a drink (if you child
would like a beverage). Snack is only 5 minutes long and lunch
is not to far away.
Dismissal
As a safety precaution, your child needs to know who is picking
them up at the end of the school day BEFORE THEY LEAVE IN THE
MORNING. Another reminder about pick-up, YOU MUST GET OUT OF
YOUR VEHICLE AND COME PICK YOUR CHILD UP FROM BEHIND THE YELLOW
CHAIN. I cannot allow them to walk outside of that safe area
with any sibling until I see a parent within a safe distance.
This is school policy and is for the safety of the students.
Spelling
Spelling Tests are on Friday. The new words for the following
week's test will be copied into the student's Spelling Notebook
after they take their test on Friday. Therefore, Spelling
Notebooks MUST BE BROUGHT BACK TO SCHOOL ON TEST DAY! They will
then return home with the new set of words that same day.
Schedule of Events in Social Studies
This is generally how things will run in Social Studies class for
the current
school year. Please understand that when the class is working on
a project,
there may be a break in this schedule.
� Vocabulary will be introduced for the new chapter/unit on
the first
day. These words and their definitions will be written on
looseleaf paper and put into the Study Sheet Envelope. The
envelope containing the words will come home to be used for
studying purposes at home. Please return this list to school
each day in the envelope in case it is need for in class studying.
� There will be a quiz on these vocabulary words
approximately a week
and a half to two weeks later. Please make sure your child is
studying the
words at home. We do review them each day at the start of
class. No retakes
or corrections will be allowed on Vocabulary quizzes.
� A Study Guide for the Chapter/Unit test will come home
about 4 days
ahead of the scheduled test. STUDENTS need to fill in the
answers on the
study guide. I will generally send the study guide home the
first night for
them to TRY filling in as much as they can WITHOUT their books.
This is a
good way for you to judge how well they are paying attention in
class. The
books will come home the following night for the students to go
back and fill
in the rest of the answers. Hopefully there will not be many to
fill in on
day two.
� The Study Guide should come with the students to school
EVERYDAY! We
will go over all the correct answers for it during class. They
do not have
time to be writing every single answer in during this review. It
is simply a
time to check over the answers. What is the point of a study
guide if the
students are studying the wrong information?
� On test day, students must turn in the completed study
guide. If
they have lost it, they may call another student from class the
night before
the test to get the information. They are not allowed to copy
this
information during school hours especially during another class.
I will
accept a handwritten study guide. However, if the student loses
it, I will
not give them a second one. Students can also print an extra
copy of the study guide from this website in their specific
grade's study guide section.
� Tests will be graded and returned to the student to be
signed by the
parent within two days of taking the test. Please ask your
student for the
test so you are aware of their grades.
� One of the things I would like for students to practice
this year is
being responsible. In all the social studies classes we will be
learning about being a good citizen. Part of being a good
citizen is being
responsible. Therefore, I feel if the students are paying
attention and
actively participating in classroom discussions and activities,
they will be
a responsible learner. As a result, these students (with the use
of the
chapter/unit study guide) should have no problem doing well in
Social
Studies. I do not expect all students to have perfect grades.
However, I do
feel it is fairly easy to obtain passing grades in Social Studies
this year.
� With that being said, I understand that once in while we
all have
days that we aren�t at our best due to other things occurring in
life outside
of school (and work for us adults). Sometimes we do need a
chance to redo
some thing that we know we could have done better. I have
decided that I
will allow each student to make corrections on ONE test per
quarter. Here
are the criteria for making corrections on that ONE test:
o Corrections are allowed on tests in which the student
received a
score of a �D� or lower on the original test (the percentage
score would be
anything lower than a 75%).
o The test MUST be signed by you the parent.
o Corrections are due the very next day after the test has
been
returned to the student. (Example: If the test is returned to
the student on
Tuesday, the signed test with the corrections are due on
Wednesday.) NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
o Not only do students need to mark the correct answer with
a different
color leaving the original answer alone, but also the page number
of where
they found the correct answer in the textbook must be listed next
to that
question.
The day after the chapter/unit test is taken we will begin again
at the top
of this rotation.