Mrs. Copeland Second Grade/Room 110 Cold Spring School August 16, 2017 Back to School Night Mrs. Copeland Second Grade/Room 110 Cold Spring School August 16, 2017

Welcome Parents! I’m looking forward to a fun, exciting year with you and your child! Goals for tonight’s Back to School Night: Discuss School/Classroom Expectations Discuss Classroom Discipline and Management System Introduce Cold Spring Website Daily Schedule Homework Information Grading and Grading Scale Parties Contact Information

Cold Spring School and Classroom Expectations Respect Self Respect Others Respect Property Everyone gets to play and learn! (Room 110)

Clip Chart/Classroom Management System The clip chart has seven levels, each level a different color and representing a different classification of a student’s behavior. Each day, every student starts off in the middle of the clip chart, which happens to be green and represents “Ready to Learn”. Every student will have the opportunity to move their clip up on the chart. Moving up from green is blue (Good Day!), then purple (Great Day!!), and lastly Tie-Dye print (Excellent!!!). Moving up on the chart signifies that the student was performing their tasks correctly, showing appropriate and respectful behavior, and/or trying their best. If students are not showing any of these characteristics, they will clip down from wherever they “stand” on the clip chart. Below green is the color yellow (Slow Down), then orange (Think About It), and lastly red (Teacher’s Choice). The student will have two chances before they reach red to analyze and change their behavior and try to improve it or clip up before the day is over.

Clip Chart and Expectations If a student lands on red by the end of the day, this could result in In-School Suspension, write up, phone call home, or a visit to our Behavior Room. No matter where the student “stands” on the clip chart, they will always have the chance to clip up or clip down based on their behavior. At the end of each day, students “standing” will be recorded in the teacher gradebook and included in our weekly progress reports. If anyone reaches the top of the clip chart, Tie-Dye/Excellent Day, they will have the opportunity to join me for Lunch Bunch during the following week. This behavior plan allows students to move up and down by starting in the middle each day, instead of a pocket chart where you start on the same color and you can only move down. It not only puts awareness on the individual’s poor/negative behavior, but it shines a light on excellent/positive behavior by acknowledging it to everyone!

Websites and Text Alerts Cold Spring School can be found on the myIPS website (I will show you how to access this website.) I update the site weekly. I would also like to use Remind text messaging system for classroom texts, and also private parent/teacher texts. See handout with directions on how to register-IF you would like to receive text alerts from me. I’m trying to implement Class Dojo, and will give you log-in information, but please know I’m a newbie to the program!

Special Area Schedule Monday: P.L.T.W. (Project Lead the Way- Project Based Science Curriculum) 12:00-12:45 and Media from 1:00-1:45 Tuesday: Media 12:00-12:45 Wednesday: Art 12:00-12:45 Thursday: Music 12:00-12:45 Friday: P.E. 12:00-12:45

Homework Homework Folders are sent home each Monday, and should be returned by Friday. Inside the folder you will find: ELA Homework: This correlates with our McGraw-Hill reading series, “Wonders”. The homework will usually contain spelling practice, and grammar review for the skills we’re working on each week. Reading Homework: Please spend a few minutes each evening reading and discussing books with your child. Math Homework will consist of two practice/review pages from lessons that we’ve already completed. **Math Homework is scored as a completion grade.

Grades Tests/Quizzes 50% Classwork 40% Homework worth 10%

IPS Grading Scale A 95-100% A- 92-94 % B+ 89-91% B 84-88% B- 82-83% C+ 79-81% C 75-78% C- 73-74% D+ 71-72% D 67-71% D- 65-66% F 64-0%

Classroom Parties We will have three parties in our classroom this year: Fall Party in late October Winter Party in mid December Friendship Party in mid February * All treats must be individually wrapped and MUST not contain nuts or apples. (We have several students in our school with severe food allergies and we must be cautious.) Also, we are not permitted to distribute cupcakes or cookies that are not individually wrapped.

My Contact Information Feel free to contact me at copelanr@myips.org Or by calling 317-226-4155 between 8:20 and 4:30.