2. Welcome! Website: www.steddyschool.com
Best way to get in touch with me— me!
You can also call me at school.
If I haven’t gotten back to you in 2 or 3 days, please get back in touch with me!
Your or phone message may have slipped my radar.

3. A few quick housekeeping items:
Our crisis management plan is in effect if we need
to use it.
Sign up for the alerts on the school website.
They will tell you if we needed to evacuate the
school because of fire or other threats.
We will evacuate to a nearby school
(Bridgedale or St. Martin’s)
Please review your handbook for dropping off and picking
up your children.

4. Fill out background check authorization. (available at training)
I won’t talk about curriculum—you’re welcome to look at your child’s books and ask specific questions later.
If you think you would like to volunteer for any field trips or class activities, you must receive Safe Environment training.
Good for three years
Attend training session. (There will be one at St. Edward on Sept. 20 at 7:00pm)
Fill out background check authorization. (available at training)
Pay $15 to process background check.
Do online survey.

5. They choose to act and should accept their consequences,
We encourage
responsibility
We advocate self-control and responsibility for students’ work and their actions
They choose to act and should accept their consequences,
good or bad

6. That they gain ownership of their own lives.
Our goal for your children:
That they gain ownership of their own lives.

7. They are in charge of telling you anything I tell them at school
They also write themselves notes on their homework sheet to remind themselves
what they need to do
They own their folder and everything in their bookbag.
They should come to you and show you anything needing to be completed or signed.

8. We want them ready for fourth grade at the end of the year,
where they will have to move around to different classrooms with different
teachers for different subjects

9. So what do you do?
You can sit with them while they look in their folder
You can ask “What’s in your folder?” or “Is there anything you need to
show me?”
When you put something in their folder to give to me, tell them.
Check my website together
Check that homework and seatwork brought home is done
Don’t go through their bookbag or folder when they are not around or
sleeping! (I may have told them to keep something in there.)
Trust what they say until proven wrong. You are welcome to
contact me to verify anything!

10. Will they all miraculously fall into this responsible routine NOW?
Maybe not.
but
They ARE ready to start.

11. Third grade moves faster than second grade. They can handle it!
It’s lots of work, but I’m there every step of the way.
I pack with them for homework every afternoon.
We go over everything before they study it or do something for
homework. Nothing should be new to them.
“Ms. Guirovich never talked about…”
“She never showed us…”
I try to never let these be true statements!
Please do not go ahead in doing Math or English homework.

12. Any seatwork that isn’t finished at school goes home that day.
This is okay
every once in awhile (especially in the beginning),
but if it becomes chronic, we should talk!

13. This is not a punishment!
If work goes home but isn’t completed for the next day:
A reminder is sent home, a “Parent’s Notice.”
This is not a punishment!
You can sign it when
your child shows it to you and the work is COMPLETE.
Usually, a second chance is given (in the beginning) if the work is
still not finished or the paper
not signed, and then a retention is given as a consequence.

14. Homework sheets every Monday night
Other signed papers:
Homework sheets every Monday night
Punishwork (due the next day, spelling definitions)
We don’t send home
a notice telling you, it’s your child’s job to do this
D’s and F’s on tests and quizzes—
corrections must be done for tests only

15. I walk the aisles for the first nine weeks, watching for:
Following class rules
Materials out
Finishing their work
Correcting their work
Right books out, on the correct page, ready
Following directions
Working together
Looking for anyone needing assistance

16. If they are not doing what they need to be doing, I always warn them
(usually more than once)
before the name goes on the board
I do what I can, but I may miss something—
please check your child’s work
when you are at home!

17. Thank you for coming! Questions?
Please feel free to take a reader from the back of the room if you would like.
Questions?
This will be on my website if you think you missed something!