Mrs. Heth’s 2018-2019 Back to School Night Presentation
COMMUNICATION ● Email me (mheth@fcusd.org), but if time sensitive please call ● Ask another classroom parent ● Check my website ● Check the weekly Newsletters! ● Wednesday Folders Notes ● Conferences via
Supplies ● Supply list posted on Oak Chan’s website ● water bottle ● Red and yellow folders as well as a testing folder ● Mechanical pencils preferred ● Headphones
BIG CHANGES FROM 2ND -3RD GRADE ● Increased pace ● Nightly home practice/homework ● Weekly homework sheet ● More problems in math ● Tests harder ● Typing/Writing google classroom (docs) ● Grades online
SCHOOL RULES S afe K ind O n task R esponsible R espectful
BOOKS ● Any classroom book (including my classroom library books) can be taken home ● 2 books checked out at the Library returned weekly ● Scholastic Book/Computer Club (when no book fair) -- Optional with a one week turn in
Curriculum ● Language Arts Series -- Benchmark -- AR tests; weekly reading log; consumable books; fewer spelling words; and book reports once a trimester ● Social Studies -- NEW ( California Communities ) TCI -- Open Book Tests and reports ● Math -- Pearson (Can access through student login on PowerSchool) ● Science -- New NGSS based, Supplementary Packet/ Scott Foresman/Mystery Science experiments
● Nightly homework sheet -- students fill out from list on board-- parent signature ● Generally 3 Items: Reading Log, Math Practice Page, Cursive, (and Thursday night spelling) ● For clarification on assignment: call neighbor, check newsletter, or website for big projects ● Monday - Thursday ● Filed papers sent home in Wednesday folders -- check for redo's hold on to papers until grade check-- errors occasionally made ● Please proofread/check work ● Due the next day by 8:25
GRADES ● M=Meets 85-100% D=Developing 60-84% L=Limited 0-59% ● PowerSchool Portal access to grades-- Updated at least once weekly ● Most classwork/homework is 2 points ● Rubrics are used for larger assignments ● Quizzes are generally 5-25 points ● Math, Science and Social Studies tests are generally 100 points ● Late work is half credit or 10 percentage points per day on large projects ● redos not fixed -- after a week become permanent ● can’t redo tests ● Missing work = 0% and is a major grade drop!
CLASSROOM HELPERS ● I LOVE PARENT HELPERS! ● Must have a TB test, category 2 form, and be fingerprinted ● Parent Helper sign up sheet ● PTO
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