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Welcome To Mrs. Bakx’s First and Second Grade

Welcome To Mrs. Bakx’s First and Second Grade. Who is Mrs . Bakx ??. The Triangle. Communication, support and teamwork are the key to a successful year. Classroom Blog Please leave email address on sign up to receive emails.

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Welcome To Mrs. Bakx’s First and Second Grade

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  1. Welcome To Mrs. Bakx’s First and Second Grade

  2. Who is Mrs. Bakx??

  3. The Triangle • Communication, support and teamwork are the key to a successful year. • Classroom Blog • Please leave email address on sign up to receive emails. • Behavior progress report as necessary or requested • Sbakx@hbcsd.us • Notes and homework in Friday folder • Phone ext. 102 before 8:30 and after 3:00 • Drop in no later than 8:30 • Sbakx.com • Remind 101 714-294-2105 @mrsbakx

  4. Daily Schedule • 8:43 – Morning Routine • 9:00 – Language Arts/Centers (M,T,W,Th) • 10:40 – RECESS • 11:00 – Math • 11:45 – LUNCH/ 2nd to buddies • 12:30 – 1st grade activities • 1:00 – Writing • 2:00 – Science, Social Studies, P.E. • 2:43 – Dismiss Music, Library, Computer Lab - TBD PE – Tuesdays and Fridays

  5. Lunch • PLEASE, PLEASE, pretty please use the account system through office or district website and keep updated. • Help child memorize account number • Are you buying or bringing? That is the question! Please know the answer! • Send a HEALTHY snack for 10:40 recess no soda, candy, glass bottles • May eat with child, but leave at recess

  6. Friday Folders • This is our mailbox • Return every Friday • Clean out and return with only homework

  7. Attendance, Drop off, Dismissal • $80,000 in lost funds due to absences  • 8:30 when door is OPEN children can unpack, do morning tasks, have quiet reading time. • Bell rings at 8:43 • Do not leave children unattended on the yard prior to 8:30 • School session vacations discouraged but if unavoidable Independent Study should be completed • Valet service in drop off zone • Friday walk together to school -PTA

  8. Discipline Show respect, Make Good decisions, Solve problems Behavior matrix- schoolwide Off the chart wearing clothes pin 4 tickets Tickets Friday raffle for super coupons Super You 10 = Super Dolphin Marbles class reward- game party, movie, free recess outstanding great warning Note /email home Principal/ conference

  9. Birthdays Party invitations need to be given outside the classroom unless all are invited. No cakes, parties, goody bags Book or pencil donation are allowed but not necessary • Class sings, gives a card and asks questions • Birthday person chooses a story to read aloud and gets a free homework night!

  10. Reading • Small group guided reading, differentiated instruction, Project Read sequential phonics • Class anthology for reading and comprehension skills • Activity rotations with word work, phonetic skill focus and literary response projects • Storytime Picture Books and chapter books • Whales tales/AR- See handout • www.earobics.com//gamegoo

  11. Writing Writing a focused paragraph(s) in descriptive, narrative, expository and research genres. • Thinking Maps • Write from the Beginning • Journal Writing at rotations • Writer’s workshop • Free choice writing

  12. Math • Direct Lessons and hands on • Problem solving using manipulatives and strategy discussions • ROCKET MATH (speed tests) • Telling time, measurement, identifying money and its values • Place Value • 2 digit addition and subtraction with regrouping • Jiji math

  13. Science First Grade Weather Organisms Solids and Liquids Second Grade Balls and Ramps Butterflies Soils • Inquiry and language arts based instruction • Beckman Science Grant kits • Poems, chants, songs, cooperative learning, observation, journal notes and experts groups

  14. Computer Classroom • Gamegoo • Phonetic and Math games • Story publishing on word • Story publishing on AlphaSmart key boards • IXl • Multiplication.com • Google Docs Lab • Word • Textboxes • Word art • Excel • Auto graphics • Google Docs • Jiji math

  15. Postcards from around the world! • One per city • must have message • pictures – no cartoons please

  16. Dani The Dolphin ( she’s a girl) Dani is our class mascot/reading buddy Sleepover on Fridays Shares on following Friday Instructions are in her suitcase

  17. How Can I Help? • Homework • Sight Word testing • Tickets/100 Mile Club • Timed math tests • Centers • Whale Tales • Copying • Pulling pages • Field Trips • Curriculum Lab • Meet the Masters Room Parent!

  18. Extra, Extra! • Box Tops • 100 Mile Club – September 23rd • SPIRIT Assemblies • Character Counts, Special recognitions • Peterson Mailing List

  19. Which one? “Think left and think right, think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!” -Dr. Seuss “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and it’s best hope for the future” -John F. Kennedy

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