1. Mrs. Heredia

2. A Little About Me Mrs. Heredia Reading, Language Arts & Social Studies
- 10th year teaching at SASP
- Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education
- Master’s Degree in Reading Education
- ESOL Endorsed
LOVES: READING, traveling, coffee, and spending time with family and friends
Teacher of the Year 

3. Important Rules
Students must be in class, seated and working on their warm up by 8:15 am. Doors open at 8:00 a.m.
Students must bring their book bags, materials, agenda, and homework to school everyday.
Students cannot bring toys, trading cards, hats, I-pods, electronic games, etc. to school.
If your child is absent, send an ANF with him/her stating the reason for the absence and the date(s) they were absent. Absences will not be excused without the Absence Notification Form. If absences are NOT excused within 72 hours the child will still be given the work to make up, but will receive a grade of “Z” which could greatly affect their average.
(The ANF can be found in the front office and on the school website

4. Uniform Policy ALL STUDENTS are required to follow our uniform policy.
Uniform shirts, shorts, skorts, and pants must have our school logo embroidered
Uniform shirts must be light blue, light yellow, or white.
Elementary uniform shorts, skorts, and pants must be blue or black.
Shirts must be tucked in at all times.
Shoes must be all black… even soles
Only school sweaters and jackets allowed.
No Hoodies
All students must wear a black belt.

5. Classroom Management Each student manages his/her own behavior.
Each time a rule is broken, the student must move his/her card to the next color that follows (green, yellow then red). Each color has a different consequence.
* Students with incomplete or missing homework will begin each day on yellow.
Consequences/Warnings:
1. First-Verbal warning
2. Second -change to yellow, note home to parents.
3. Third- color change to red = Detention

6. Reading Benchmarks Context Clues
Affixes (prefixes, suffixes & base words)
Synonyms, Antonyms
Multiple Meaning Words
Author’s Purpose/Author’s Viewpoint
Sequence of Events, Drawing Conclusions, Main Idea, Making Inferences, Noting Details
Cause & Effect
Text Structures (How is the story organized?)
Compare & Contrast
Theme
Story Structure (characters, setting, plot)
Figurative Language (similes, metaphors, idioms, etc)
Text Features in Informational Text (bold words, captions, headings, etc)

7. * fsassessments.org FSA Assessment Where can I get Support?
* Testing in April/May. Exact dates TBA
Where can I get Support?
* fsassessments.org
FSA Saturdays
Begin in January 2019
Mandatory for majority of 3rd grade students

8. Access practice tests and resources to help you and your child 

9. Participation/ Projects/ Technology 10%
Grading Policy
Percentages
= A
80-89 = B
70-79 = C
60-69 = D
59 and below = F
Grade Weights
Tests: 60%
Class work: 30 %
Participation/ Projects/ Technology 10%
Spelling, vocabulary, reading comprehension (Skills Tests),
and grammar tests are administered biweekly
Social Studies test days vary.
Reviews are done in class prior to the test.

10. Home Learning Policy
Students are responsible for copying their homework daily onto their agenda.
Four missed or incomplete homework assignments (called infractions) will result in a detention (3 detentions for missed homework results in loss of privileges such as field trips). Each nine weeks, they start “fresh”.
Home-learning is checked/tracked daily.
Home-learning must be completed entirely, neatly, and in pencil in your child’s own handwriting in order to receive full credit.
Home-learning MUST be done completely (meaning nothing must be left blank). They are ALWAYS encouraged to TRY their BEST!
Special projects will be assigned periodically throughout the year, specifically in Science and Social Studies. DUE DATES ARE IMPORTANT
For reading, students MUST underline evidence in the stories.
Students are given 15 minutes to copy homework in agenda. They can always access homework on our webpages if they run out time.
Students must always attempt to get an answer or the assignment is incomplete. Homework is NOT checked for accuracy or perfection

11. Reading Comprehension Homework
Students MUST show their evidence in the story
Stories should contain notes, paragraphs numbered, and underlined evidence to show where the answers to their questions were found.
Circle key words/ideas
Students may highlight (yellow is preferred)

12. How can YOU help? Make sure homework gets completed daily.
Make sure they’re SHOWING THEIR WORK in both reading and math homework.
Underlining in story, identifying key words
Be their biggest cheerleader! Push them to be the GREATEST version of themselves! Motivate them and praise their successes.
Ensure they are in class [on time] every day 
Check their grades and reinforce skills you see they struggled on
Ex: Skills test: Cause & Effect (D 60%)
Run a quick google search for resources
on 3rd grade cause & effect activities.

13. We will be using i-Ready for
Technology
We will be using i-Ready for
Math and Reading.
Students must complete 2 lessons each week AND spend at least 45 ACTIVE minutes on the program per subject (Math and Reading)
A Participation Grade will be added to the gradebook weekly
44 minutes = 0%
Minutes and lessons “refresh” every Monday morning back to zero (0)

14. (1 hour will be given for every $3.33 spent)
Volunteer Policy
Must complete a total of 30 volunteer hours
An additional 15 hours per child
Must be cleared in order to attend in-class & school activities or functions.
(See office for clearance)
All donations must be turned in with a receipt (gift cards welcome!) 
(1 hour will be given for every $3.33 spent)

15. Parent Club PARENT CLUB Maria Ostos Room mom assigned 
Please sign up TODAY to assist with:
Hispanic Heritage Food Festival (10/12)
Character Parade (10/31)
Red Ribbon Week (10/23 – 10/31)
Decorating class / windows
Helping us 
*** Get your clearance ***

16. Make-Up Work
Students are encouraged to come early the day after an absence (beginning at 7:30) to make up any missed work. This gives us ample time to reteach anything they missed and gives them a more one-on-one instruction on what they missed.
Students may be pulled from special area classes to complete core curriculum make up work if need be and with permission from special area teacher.
If the student’s absence is UNEXCUSED, the student will receive a Z (0%) on any missed assignments.

17. Contact Information
Mrs. Heredia-
VISIT MY WEBSITE!!!!
I will post important announcements/information, wish lists, Curriculum, HOMEWORK, and much more.
Directions to log on are as follows:
Go to
Click on Somerset Academy K-8, About Us, Staff Directory and then Dianah Heredia
My Teacher Web will be updated weekly.

18. Lets Check our teacher webpages & school store now
Payments
All payments will be made online via the school store. Cash will not be accepted unless it’s for Jean Days.
Directions to log on are as follows:
Go to
Click on Somerset Academy K-8, and then School Store
Lets Check our teacher webpages & school store now

19. Art and Music Fees
All students in 3rd grade are required to pay a fee for their Art & Music Classes. The cost for each fee is $5.00
To pay fees please visit:
Type in your child’s ID, select the 2 class fees, and make the payments directly online. 
*** Print and keep the receipt of payment for your records***
DUE: Both fees must be paid by November 2nd
Any student owing class fees after November 2 may not participate in any activities, sports, clubs, fieldtrips, etc.

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