Ms. K’s Classroom Procedures

1. Ms. K’s Classroom Procedures

2. Supplies • Lined paper needed daily!! • Graph paper for occasional use • Pencils for notes and HW (no pen on HW) • Red pen for correcting HW • Calculators for occasional use • PV Binder Reminder • Suggestions: • 3-ring Binder with 3 sections • Notes • HW / Classwork • Tests / Quizzes

3. Classroom Rules • Be in your seat before the bell rings. • Be considerate of others. (Respect students’ and teachers’ comments, opinions, and ideas.) • What does this look like? • How do we act with classroom visitors? • Bring all materials needed for class. • Keep hands, feet, and other objects to yourself. • No throwing ANYTHING at ANYTIME, it will lead to an automatic litter pick-up.

4. Food and Drinks • This is a new classroom! • No eating. • Only water allowed for drinking.

5. Bathrooms • Go before or after class, that is what the break is for! • Otherwise, you must wait to ask until I have finished the class lesson for the day and excused the class to work on an activity or hw. • Please raise your hand with crossed fingers if you have an emergency such as a bloody nose to get my attention quietly. • If you are allowed to go to the bathroom you must sign in and out on the bathroom sign in sheet.

6. Questions and hand raising. • Raise your hand with any questions at any time during class. I may not call on you right away but I will get to you. • If you make noises while raising your hand I will call on others who are quiet first. • Participate in class for tickets by raising your hand!

7. Class Movement • Stay in seats at all times unless I have given permission to move. • If you have trash hold onto it until class ends or I have allowed you to move when I finished the lesson for the day. • If you need supplies before class please ask for them or retrieve them as soon as you enter the classroom. • This is for me and other students as movement can be distracting!

8. Daily Routine This is the first 5-10 minutes of class every day • Come in and write down the HW from the board. • Pull out the previous night’s HW and start grading from answers on the board. • Start the warm-up also on the board. • I will randomly call on a student to work through the warm-up with me and the student will receive a jolly rancher or starburst if they have the problem attempted before I call on them. • This warm-up will be the start of the notes for the day.

9. Rewards • Tickets – earn tickets by participating in class and being on task. • Tickets can be redeemed for: • 2 tickets – Jolly Rancher or Starburst • 4 Tickets – late assignment for full credit • 10 tickets – HW pass • Tickets can be redeemed at the end of the period.

10. Consequences • Warning • Litter Pick-up • Asked to leave classroom and you owe me 15 min after school or at lunch and a parent phone call • Parent Phone conference • Referral

11. HW – 20% of grade • For full credit the heading must be correct and work must be shown! • If more than 50% of problems are incorrect you will be required to redo the assignment before the Unit Test. • All late assignments are due before the Unit Test.

12. Tests and Quizzes – 80% of grade • Quizzes will always be followed by a week for you to do quiz corrections and return the quizzes with correct answers and work to earn back ½ the points missed. • Tests will not have corrections.

13. IXL • 30 minutes weekly from a category selected by Ms. Korhummel at grade level. • Monday morning to Sunday night. • Must also reach a “smartscore” of 70 in that category within the 30 minutes for that week. • Make-up or extra credit opportunities during breaks only.

14. Absences • If you are absent you will have 2 days to make-up any missing assignments. • Turn these assignment sin the box for your period with “Absent” written next to your name.

15. Resources • Call a friend • Check Ms. K’s website • Office Hours Tue. and Th. 2:30 – 3:30 • E-mail Ms. K. I will be checking e-mail until 7pm