Welcome Letter:
Dear Parents/Guardians,
We are pleased that your child will be on Team F this year. With your
encouragement, your child will be a part of an exciting and rewarding
experience. To ensure that your child has a productive year, please
review all the material sent home in the Van Wyck news letters,
student handbook and school behavior code.
Since success depends on discipline, we have developed a Classroom
Discipline Plan which will guide your child in making good decisions
about his/her behavior and thus can learn in a positive classroom
environment. The plan outlines our classroom rules, rewards and
consequences for appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
To encourage students to follow class rules, we will reward
appropriate behavior with frequent praise, computer time, library
time, homework and classwork passes, pizza and ice cream parties, and
special class activities. However, if a student chooses to break a
rule, he/she will fail to earn points that can be traded in for the
classroom rewards.
All school assignments are included in our discipline plan. Completed
assignments earn points for our discipline plan while incomplete
assignments cause a student to lose points.
Our grading policy for academic grades is as follows:
1) All assignments are accepted until the last day that marking period
in which the assignment was given.
2) Late assignments will be decreased at 2 points per day with a
minimum grade of 50 if handed in by the end of marking period.
Otherwise, the grade will be recorded as a zero.
In order for this plan to have its greatest effect, we need your
support. Please discuss this letter and the attached classroom rules
policy with your child, then sign it and return to us. Thank you in
advance for your cooperation.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. We are
available for conferences before and after school and you may call
227-1700 to schedule an appointment.
You may also visit our web site at
http://teacherweb.com/ny/vanwyck/parsons/
http://teacherweb.com/ny/vanwyck/dearce/
These website will be updated on a daily basis with current homework
assignments. Please refer to class rules on the home page to review
rules and consequences at any time.
Sincerely,
Mrs. DeArce Mrs. Parsons
I have read my child's classroom discipline plan and I have discussed
it with him/her.
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Parent/Guardian Signature
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