Blog Closed
I am discontinuing this blog for my classroom. Please see my website at http://mrwalkersclass.wikidot.com. Thank you.
A blog for the students and parents of Mr. Walker's fifth grade class at Lafayette Elementary in San Francisco, a California Distinguished School.
I am discontinuing this blog for my classroom. Please see my website at http://mrwalkersclass.wikidot.com. Thank you.
We are still working on our classroom rules, but are making good progress and will share them with you soon. (You may have noted that your child did have a homework assignment regarding the big topics of respect and responsibility, which we are using to formulate rules and establish our shared values, as a way of establishing guidelines for behavior.)
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All completed work will be sent home on Friday in your child's Friday folder. Please review the folder, sign the attached form, make any comments you desire on the back, and have your child return the folder to school on Monday. It is your child’s responsibility to show you their Friday folder and to return it to class on Monday.
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In the Friday folder, you will also note a Behavior Update for the past week. Everyone starts each day at the baseline of Green (0). For each misbehavior, actions that are disrespectful or irresponsible, they move into the negative numbers, from Yellow to Orange to Red. For good behavior, students move into the positive numbers, from Blue to Indigo to Violet.
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I have to apologize. Even though I have already given you my e-mail address and the blog address for my classroom, I have not checked or updated either so far this year. I currently do not have Internet access in my new classroom and I have been unsuccessful in getting it fixed. I will try to access the Internet in the school’s computer lab, but please be patient with me until the district technology people can help me fix this problem. Thank you.
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These are some of the Student Responsibilities that come from the district’s Student and Parent/Guardian Handbook. I have already discussed these responsibilities with the students and am sharing it with you now for your information.
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5. It is your responsibility:
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This year we will be formulating classroom rules together. I have ideas for what our classroom rules should be, but I want to work with my students so that we can decide them together. In order to do this, we will be discussing shared values, what makes a good student, how we want to be treated, our rights, and our responsibilities. When we have formulated our rules, I will share them with you. The students will also have copies for their reference.
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Option A:
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I am using this blog to communicate information to you regarding what your child is learning in fifth grade. In this blog, I am copying my newsletters, weekly in these early weeks of the school year. They will explain my policies and procedures and set expectations. Later newsletters and posts to this blog, monthly or so, will keep you informed on what the students are learning.
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Unit A - Chapter 4:
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I decided to increase the number of vocabulary words for this story from our usual 10 up to 15. This test will be next week.
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