1. Rules –Ways You Behave (Not Procedures) 1.Cooperate with your teacher and classmates. 2.Respect the rights and properties of others. 3.Carry out your student responsibilities.

2. Basic Student Responsibilities Keep track of your own books and assignments Start your work on time and allow time to finish. Ask for help when you need it. Do your own work. Turn your work in on time. Accept responsibility for grades and other consequences. Keep up with your agenda.

3. When YOU CHOOSE To Break A Rule Verbal Warning Demerit Teacher Detention Call Home Referral

4. Mr. Goetz’s Rules to Live By 1. Do what is right. 2. Do your best. 3.Treat others how you would want to be treated.

5. Words to Use to Help Others We don’t do that here!

6. Mrs. Yelton Family Education Experience Hometown Interests

7. Mrs. Yelton’s Procedures Welcome to Mrs. Yelton’s classroom! Hopefully everyone can work together to have a great experience in room 303!

8. Forward I am here to teach; you are here to learn. I will do my job; you will do yours, and we will together use this semester or quarter wisely and beneficially. Positive attitude is the key of success. Let’s keep it all the time.

9. Why Have Procedures? A procedure is the way that we do things. –To do things right, we have to follow some simple procedures, for example: –To open your locker, you have to use a combination in a specific way. –To make chocolate chip cookies, you need to follow the steps in the recipe. So, to be successful in learning, you need to follow some simple procedures.

10. Getting Class’ Attention 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Bell Smiley Face Dinger Opposites attract!

11. Entering the Classroom Make sure you have all of the materials for this class. You must be in the class when the bell rings. Enter the classroom quietly. Go directly to your assigned seat. Write down any homework in your agenda. Fill out the Learning Targets sheet.

12. Entering the Classroom continued You may bring water bottles, which are especially helpful during warm weather. You may not bring your backpack into the classroom. the room is crowded, you need to be able to move freely around the room, and they can create danger. You may chew gum unless it becomes a problem. Please put wrappers and finished gum in the trash can.

13. Leaving the Classroom During Class You will get 3 OOPS! passes for each quarter. You may use them for going to your locker without getting a demerit, using the restroom, or getting a drink. You must take a pass. The passes are hanging on the metal areas by the door. Please return the passes to the correct spot. Please try to take care of your restroom and drink needs between classes or at lunch. Once you’ve used up your Oops passes you will get a demerit for going to your locker and if you use the restroom, you must come back to the room for 3 minutes after school.

14. Leaving the Classroom at the End of Class The bell doesn’t dismiss the class. Mrs. Yelton does. Keep out materials until I say the lesson is over. Clean up the area around you. Push in your chair when you have permission to leave, and leave quietly. The last class of the day should put the chairs on the desks.

15. Homework Policy Homework is due on the date given by the teacher. If you don’t have your homework on the day that it is due, you will get a demerit, but you still have to do it! If your homework is one day late, you get a 10% reduction in your grade. If your homework is two days late, you get a 20% reduction in your grade and another demerit. If it is any later than 2 days, you will have to attend Academic Saturday in order to make it up. YOU DON’T HAVE THE OPTION OF NOT DOING YOUR HOMEWORK.

16. Materials in Classroom Look at the glass on the side of the door to find out which materials you will need for class. Always bring your agenda, your accordion file (6 th grade), your Reading folder and spiral notebook OR your Public Speaking binder with loose-leaf paper, a book to read, and pens and/or pencils. When you do not have a book, or materials, you will get a demerit. You may only use black or blue ink when you use pens. You can use fun pens for grading and note taking. Ask permission to sharpen your pencil. You may sharpen it when you come to class, but you need to ask first. Use a quiet sharpener during quiet times.

17. Materials in the Classroom continued Crayons and markers are on the built-in shelves by the door. Colored pencils are on the blue dictionary cart. Separate markers, glue sticks, individual and electric pencil sharpeners, tape, and staplers, and scissors, are available on the shelves by the bookshelves. A few more pencil sharpeners are on the blue dictionary cart.

18. More Materials Information Remember that the classroom materials belong to all of us. Please keep them in the classroom. Hand Sanitizer: Use this at appropriate times, not when Mrs. Yelton is in the middle of a large group discussion or is talking to the whole class. Please use after you use a tissue. Band-Aids are by the printer. Please ask before taking one, and get more if you use the last one.

19. In the Classroom Extra copies of papers are in the baskets on the front table, and usually they are on my website. When you talk during announcements you will get a demerit. You don’t need permission to get or throw away tissues. You can throw away other trash if Mrs. Yelton isn’t working with the whole class. There are trash cans next to Mrs. Yelton’s desk, near the front door, and next to the bookshelves. The blue one by the bookshelves is for pencil shavings, candy wrappers, and little things.

20. Finished with Your Work? If you are finished with your work, you must do late work, do Reading or Public Speaking homework, or read a book. You are not allowed to talk, socialize, or waste time.

21. Turning in Work Make sure your name is on your paper!!! No names will be on the “Orphans Please Adopt” area below the SmartBoard. Carefully put your work in the blue organizer on top of the filing cabinets. Be sure to put it in the slot of your period number. The front of the paper should be showing.

22. Absenteeism You are responsible for making up work you miss when you are absent. DO NOT USE THE EXCUSE OF, “I DIDN’T DO IT BECAUSE I WAS ABSENT. When someone is absent, the Absentee Assistant will fill out a paper listing the information that happened in class. He or she will put the paper in the hanging chart of papers to go home. You will find that paper the next day. Ask if you don’t see it. You will have 2 days for each day that you are absent, to complete the work you missed.

23. Passing Out Graded Papers Graded papers are in the hanging file on the right end of the white board. Two students will have the job of Paper People, and they will hand out the papers when they enter the classroom. Please don’t hurry up to Mrs. Yelton when you have questions or concerns about your work. Wait until the class goes over it, or set up a time to meet with Mrs. Yelton.

24. Unfinished and See Me Work If your paper says “Finish,” at the top, you must finish the paper and return it the next day. If your paper says “See Me,” at the top, you need to see Mrs. Yelton at an appropriate time, and she will help you.

25. Getting Help When in doubt, look about! Ask 3 before me! Raise your hand instead of yelling out!

26. Sign Language Use sign language when raising your hand. The main ones to use are, “I have a question,” “I have a comment,” “Volunteer,” and “I’m ignoring you.”

27. Interruptions Telephone – You can answer the phone if you are closer to it than Mrs. Yelton. Please say, “Mrs. Yelton’s Class.” Visitors – You continue to work or talk quietly. Remember rules and procedures.

28. Classroom Library If you would like to check out a book from the classroom library, you need to check it out using the form on the end of the shelves. Please put books into a slot. Don’t just lay them on a shelf.

29. Teacher’s Desk The materials and supplies on Mrs. Yelton’s desk belong to her. Please do not touch anything without permission.

30. Lunch Procedures Line up in alphabetical order. Each day, the person who was in the front yesterday will go to the back of the line. Walk quietly on the right side of the hallway. You will receive a demerit if you talk going upstairs or downstairs.

31. How to Reach Mrs. Yelton Please use the HMS Teacher Web Pages to get updated homework and class information. To get Mrs. Yelton’s webpage, follow these steps: 1.Type in Internet address: http://www.fortthomas.kyschools.us http://www.fortthomas.kyschools.us 2.Click on Middle School. 3.Click on Teacher Webpages. 4.Click on “Yelton, Dianne” 5.Find your class on the right side of the webpage and click to get more information. 6.Classroom phone #: 815-2444

32. Class Cards 1. Class cards are fair. 2. Class Cards help students become more responsible. 3. Class Cards are fun. 4. Class Cards help students become better responders.

33. Using Class Cards Your Role as a Student Begin figuring out the answer to the question as soon as the teacher asks it. Don’t wait until the teacher calls your name to start thinking. Come up with an answer every time you hear a question. Be prepared to respond before you hear your name called.

34. Using Class Cards Continued The teacher may say, “Have an answer ready please.” Take a “time out” when the you don’t have the answer ready or you are scrambling to find out where the class is in the book or on the paper. Then the teacher will set aside the card to check with the student in a few minutes. Instead of, “I don’t get it,” say “Could you show a sample?” “Could you explain it better?”

35. I figure out the answers to questions when they are asked! Your Job with Class Cards