1. Mrs. Spears
8 Grade Science

2. A Little About Me I Grew up on Long Island, New York
I have traveled out of the country to South Africa, Zambia, Brazil, and Bermuda

5. Rules
Be RESPECTFUL
Be PREPARED
Be COOPERATIVE

6. Grades
Your Grade
EVERYTHING counts towards your grade. Your final grade is determined by the points your earned divided by the total possible points that could be awarded.
Grading Scale:
90-100%= A
80-89= B
70-79=C
60-69= D
≤59= F

7. Classroom Procedures ENTERING THE CLASSROM
Make a single file line from the door to the last pole before F wing.
When let in, take your seat and start your ‘Do Now’ immediately.

8. Classroom Procedures DURING CLASS
Don’t get up for any reason without permission.
Use the specified hand signals to ask to use the bathroom, sharpen pencil, throw out trash, and get water
Raise hand to speak in class- NO calling out please

9. Classroom Procedures DURING CLASS
If you finish your work early, you may quietly read for pleasure, work on another class’s assignment, or ask for a puzzle to complete.
1 puzzle=1 extra credit point. Some worth MORE!
If someone comes to the door, only the teacher or another adult may let the visitor in the room.

10. Classroom Procedures EXITING THE CLASS
The teacher dismisses class, not the bell.
Class will not be dismissed until desks are put back in order and textbooks are in the baskets.

11. Classroom Procedures EMERGENCIES
If the emergency signal starts to ring walk out the side door and form a single file line on the track where I stand.

12. LATE/MAKE UP WORK
Every day late, an assignment loses 10% of possible grade.
Check the class website: Spears8Science.wordpress.com to see what was missed
Make up work should be placed in the bottom shelf on the stackable

13. Serious offences will result in IMMEDIATE office intervention
Consequences
Failure to follow classroom rules and/or procedures will result in disciplinary action:
Verbal Warning
Fill-In-The-Blank Periodic Table
Seat Change/Isolation
Timeout in another classroom
Phone call home (5 periodic tables= automatic phone call home)
Office Referral
Serious offences will result in IMMEDIATE office intervention
Consequences are given at the teacher’s discretion

14. Periodic Table of Elements

15. CLASS WEBSITE
Spears8Science.wordpress.com

16. Life Science
Any Questions?