1. I’m glad you are here!

2. Family Sports Tea chi ng Education Outdoors

3.  Knox Elementary School 151 River Bend Way Canton, GA 30114  770-345-4307  Email addresses: ◦ melanie.beavers@cherokee.k12.ga.us melanie.beavers@cherokee.k12.ga.us ◦ lori.staud@cherokee.k12.ga.us lori.staud@cherokee.k12.ga.us

4.  Go to www.cherokee.k12.ga.uswww.cherokee.k12.ga.us  Click on schools.  Click on Knox.

5. 1. Follow Directions Quickly 2. Raise Hand to Talk 3. Raise Hand to Leave Seat 4. Make Smart Choices 5. Respect Yourself, Others, and Your Environment

6. Discipline Procedures Daily Conduct S =Great Day S – = Name on teacher’s clipboard (warning) N= Name & check mark (silent lunch) U= Name circled (phone call home) *Please note that parent conferences and office referrals will be made when necessary.

7. Account Books  Record credits and debits Credits  Earn credit for super behavior and going “above and beyond”, according to teacher’s discretion Debits  Debits for not turning in homework, not following class rules, according to teacher’s discretion Class Store (Mrs. Staud)  End of each month  Students purchase items ◦ (Parent volunteers/donated items-no candy or food)  Students learn to make choices – spend/save

8.  Parents need to read and sign their student’s agenda each night.  Please have your child to school on time.  Return Friday folders each Monday.  Please review graded work with your child which goes home on Tuesdays.  Please make sure your child is completing his/her homework each night.

9.  Third grade students should bring home their agendas every day. Please review and sign your child’s agenda daily.  All transportation and excuse notes must be written on a separate sheet of paper, not in the agenda. We send these notes to the office each day.

10.  As long as students are healthy, they need to be at school.  There is now a 5 day window to get excuses to the office.  After 5 or more unexcused absences, the school counselor will send home an attendance letter.  When you can, provide a doctor’s excuse.  If your child has 4 or more unexcused tardies per quarter, they will need to serve detention.

11.  Students will be graded on their report cards in the following subject areas: reading, writing/language arts/spelling, math, social studies, and science.  Online Parent Portal ◦ Updated weekly  Our grading scale is as follows: ◦ A—90-100 ◦ B—80-89 ◦ C—71-79 ◦ D—70 ◦ F—69 and below

12.  Daily Language Warm-Up  Cursive Letters  Graphic Organizers  DLI ( Daily Language Instruction )  Integration  Writing Process  6 - Traits  A variety of writing pieces throughout the year which include : ◦ Narrative, informational, and persuasive Homework  Language Arts practice sheet  Review Language Arts notes Assessments  Classwork  Tests  Quizzes  Activities  Writing papers

13.  Each student will receive a spelling chart at the beginning of each unit. The chart will have their spelling words for the next five weeks.  Please keep the spelling chart in their spelling pouch.  There is no spelling homework unless a student fails a test. Then homework is given for the following week and will be turned in on the Friday of the test.  Tests are on Friday.

14.  Small Groups  Differentiation  Integration  Graphic Organizers  Math Interactive Notebooks Topics  Rounding  Addition  Subtraction  Multiplication  Division  Geometry  Measurement  Fractions  Data analysis  Patterns Homework  Daily homework pages (see agenda) – due the following day  Study math facts  Study guides Assessments  Class Work  Projects  Quizzes ◦ Unannounced throughout each unit  Test ◦ Announced tests at end of each unit

15. Resources  IXL https://www.ixl.com/  Learnzillion https://learnzillion.com/lesso n_plans/6876-solve- subtraction-problems-using- regrouping#fndtn-lesson  Mrs. Beavers’ Website http://mysite.cherokee.k12.g a.us/personal/melanie_chap man/site/default.aspx

16.  Magnets  Heat Energy  Rocks and Soils  Fossils  Habitats of Georgia  Interdependence of Man- Pollution/Conservation Homework Study guides Projects Assessments Class work Tests Quizzes Projects

17. 7:20 – 8:05Morning Work/Announcements 8:05 – 9:15Math Group 1 9:15 – 9:50Science Group 1 9:50 – 10:40Specials M – PE, T – PE, W – Music, Th – Art, F - PE 10:40 – 11:12Language Arts 11:12 – 11:42Lunch 11:45 – 12:30Math Group 2 12:30 – 1:15Science Group 2 1:15 – 1:30Math Group 2 1:30 – 1:45Language Arts 1:45 – 2:00Recess 2:00 – 2:10Pack Up/Dismissal

18.  ITBS – late Fall  Georgia Milestones - Spring

19.  Ice Cream – Menchie’s will come to Knox.  Individual birthday snacks are welcome at lunch. (Please give advanced notice.)  Birthday invitations must be brought for the entire class or not at all.  Reminder: Students are no longer allowed to have a friend join the visitor table.  Please be mindful of allergies in the classroom.