B.E.A.R.S. Binders
Dear Families,
I want to introduce you to your BEARS binder. This is a very
important part of my teaching because it is a means of communicating with
you! As you may have noticed, BEARS is an acronym for Becoming Efficient
and Responsible Students. Your child is required to take this binder home
every afternoon and is also responsible for bringing it back to school in
the mornings. I will be checking the contents of the binder each morning.
Here is how it is organized:
Money and Excuse Pouch: please place any lunch money, field trip
money, or donation money into this pouch as well as absentee excuses.
Calendar for the school year: keep this as a reference for the
school year.
Daily schedule: this tells you what we will be doing each day and
helps you to plan for visits to our classroom.
Newsletter: this will be updated monthly
Parent communication; This is a section for OUR communication. The
other will be for information that you simply need to read. The notebook
paper is just to have paper on hand for you to correspond with me
personally.
Folder for homework: One side will house homework that needs to come
back to school and the other will contain all the work that I have checked
and can stay at home.
The BEARS binder is great way to keep us both organized and encourage
communication. It will also encourage responsibility in the students. I
have supplied all of the items in the BEARS binder at the beginning of this
school year. If any items are lost and damaged during the school year, it
will be the responsibility of the family to replace those items.