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    Mrs. Lynda Bonura,

    M.Ed. Plus

    Room 156

    Sixth Grade Math

    Welcome to Roosevelt

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    Create a welcome poster to

    hang in the classroom

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    Welcome. Welcome to Roosevelt Middle School. My name is Mrs.

    Bonura. There it is on the Promethean. It is spelled B-O-N-U-R-A

    and is pronounced Bonura. I would like to be addressed as Mrs.

    Bonura, please. Thank you. I am looking forward to being your

    teacher this year. Relax.

    I am a veteran teacher with over 40 years of experience. Outside of

    class I go to workshops, conferences, and in-service meetings. I

    read professional journals and work together with my fellow

    teachers in professional organizations. I stay current in my

    professional knowledge and teaching skills. Most important, I love

    to teach! I enjoy teaching, and I am proud to be a teacher. So youcan relax. You are in good hands.

    You are going to have a good experience this year. This classroom

    will be well organized, and you will be well cared for while you

    are in it. We will not only study math, but I will also share with

    you some life skills and secrets that will help you succeed in

    tomorrows world. And in the area of technology you will have afew things to share as well.

    So welcome!!

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    MORNING ROUTINE:1. Walk into the room quietly and sit in your seat.

    2. Remove jacket or coat and hang them on the chair.

    3. Remove needed items from your schoolbag. Put your

    schoolbag/purse on the floor in front of you. The aisle must

    remain clear.

    4. Have your sharpened pencils out and necessary items ready.

    5. Have your homework out.

    6. Put your date in your notebook.

    7. Read the assignment for the day.

    8. Students in position 2 A-D will pass out Daily Folders (if

    needed) and the needed materials. Check the board or chart.

    9. **Begin the BELLWORK assignment on your own.

    Thank you, Mrs. Bonura

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    Introducing my Discipline Plan---

    Step 1 We are all here for YOU- for you to succeed and to

    enjoy this class. Because I care about each of you. I am here to

    help you. I will NOT allow you to do anything that will interferewith your success in this class.

    Step 2 We will be working together this year.

    We need to have a class where you can come without fear of

    being ridiculed or threatened. Because I care about ALL of you, I

    will not allow you to do anything that will interfere with

    someone else who is trying to learn.

    Step 3 I am the teacher, and I am looking forward to being

    your teacher this year. I have worked all summer planning your

    curriculum, and I will not allow you to do anything that will

    interfere with all of us having an enjoyable year.

    Step 4 So that YOU can learn, so that WE can all learn, so

    that I can teach, I have a set of rules to ensure that we will have a

    safe and orderly classroom.

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    Discipline Plan(Breaking rules has consequences)

    1. Be in your assigned seat following the classroom

    routine when the bell rings.

    2. Bring all needed materials to class daily.

    3. No social talkingAll talking must be related to

    the activity and MUST be heard ONLY by your

    partner. Look at the teacher and remain silent if she

    rings a bell. Information will follow.

    4. Show respect for self, peers, teacher and property.

    5. Follow directions the first time.

    Breaking a rule will result in punish work, detention or a

    phone call home. The punish work assignment is always the

    same. Times tables 1-9 one time.

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    Positive Consequences are REWARDSthat result when people abide by the rules.

    Good Grades

    Make the Honor Roll

    Good work is posted on the wall or the Blog

    Chosen as Student of the Month

    Certificate or note sent home

    Students name listed on the Wall of Fame

    A positive phone call home

    Get a Rough Rider ticket and a chance at bigger prizes

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    STUDENT PROCEDURES

    How to enter the classroom.

    1. Greet the teacher as you enter the classroom.2. Walk directly (shortest route) and quietly to your assigned

    seat.

    3. Sit in your assigned seat.

    4. Begin following the Daily Routine.

    Class Dismissal

    -- The bell Does Not dismiss the class. The Teacherdismisses the class.

    1. Be sure you have written the homework assignment.

    2. Be sure you have completed the journal entry.

    3. Seventh Period only --- Be sure that all materials (for

    example calculators, rulers etc) have been put back.4. Wait for the teacher to line you up and/or dismiss you.

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    What to do when your pencil breaks?

    1. Use another of your 3 sharpened pencils or a mechanical

    pencil.

    2. Use your pencil sharpener at your seat.

    3. If the teacher is talking borrow a pencil from your partner

    (return it at the end of class).

    4. If you have no pencils, nor a sharpener and the teacher is

    NOT talking, hold up your hand and request permission to

    sharpen the pencil.

    5. If permission is granted, sign the Lack of NeededMaterials list, quickly sharpen the pencil and return to

    your seat.

    6. No more than one person may be sharpening their pencil

    at one time.

    7. After using the pencil sharpener go directly to your seat

    and continue your assignment.

    How to write a heading on anything you put in the Daily

    Folder or pass up to the Teacher.

    1. Write your class number.

    2. Write your first initial or first name and your last

    name.3. Write the date.

    4. Write the period.

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    What to do when you hear an emergency alert signal?

    Tornado

    1. Silently go to your assigned area against the wall.

    2. Put your hands over the back of your neck to protect spinal cord and

    brain stem.

    3. Bend your knees and put your face down on your knees to protect yourface.

    4. Remain in position and silent until the all clear bell rings.

    Fire Drill

    1. Stop working and stand immediately.

    2. Leave the classroom silently and walk towards the office.

    3. Turn left and exit the building silently.

    4. Silently walk across the first driveway and then the second driveway.5. Go to the sidewalk and wait silently with your classmates until the

    teacher calls the roll.

    6. Do NOT go in the street. Do NOT lean on cars. Do NOT visit with

    students in another class.

    7. The teacher will call roll. Answer out loud when your name is called.

    8. Students may talk quietly when roll call is complete.

    9. Teacher and students will wait for the all clear bell or voice.

    10. After roll call students may talk quietly but must remain by the teacher.11. When the all clear is given, everyone is to walk quickly and quietly back

    to the classroom.

    12. Continue with what you were doing prior to the drill or follow the

    teachers instructions.

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    EARLY FINISHERS

    What to do when you finish your work early.

    What do I do next?

    These activities must be completed in the order given.

    1. Work on any make-up work that you may have.

    2. Work on your current journal entry or any incomplete

    entries that you may have.

    3. Work on the CHALLENGE problem.

    4. Complete an addition, subtraction, multiplication or

    division drill on the internet. You must do one of each

    before you repeat an operation.5. Go to LA PASS and complete a test. Go from test one to

    test two etc. Do not skip around. When you complete a

    test, print the results.

    6. Put any results in your Daily Folder.

    7. Complete the MTS lesson.

    8. Go to an approved math website9. Watch the Pearson / PH video tutor lesson

    10. Work on your homework

    ***Anything that you do must be dated and recorded in your

    notebook .

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    What to do when you have a question?

    1. Be sure that the teacher is not giving instructions.

    2. Raise your hand and wait for your teacher to respond.

    a. May I go to the bathroom?b. May I sharpen my pencil?

    c. I need help.

    **Questions that relate to the lesson being taught should

    be asked and answered as the teacher is teaching.

    **Other questions can wait until students are working

    independently and the teacher is monitoring the class.

    What do I do after I have gotten permission to go to the

    bathroom?

    Remember that the appropriate times in the day to go to

    the bathroom are: before class begins, during the change

    of class, before or after physical education, before orafter lunch. Other times are considered an emergency.

    Each student is allowed two emergencies per week.

    1. Never leave during teacher instruction.

    2. Complete your agenda information (you CANNOT go if

    you do not have an agendayour agenda is your PASS).3. Complete the Classroom Sign-Out form.

    4. Bring your agenda to the teacher for her signature.

    5. Sign back in when you return.

    6. Failure to follow ALL procedures will result in loss of

    privileges for the rest of the nine weeks, semester or year.

    What I will do when I want your undivided attention.

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    1. When you hear a bell ring once or twice, you are to stop

    working immediately and pay attention.

    2. You are to look at the teacher.

    3. Be ready to hear instructions.4. I will have something to say.

    Activity FoldersWhat are you to do with class-worksheets, collected

    homework, and make-up work?

    1. Follow the procedure for passing out the activity folder.

    2. You will have an Activity Folder on your desk during

    each class period.

    3. Your daily behavior record will be in the Activity Folder.

    4. Place all class-work worksheets, make-up work, test,

    quizzes and homework if it is to be turned in, into the

    folder.

    5. At the end of class (five minutes before the bell rings),

    you are to put all work in your folder and pass the folders

    to the teacher. Follow the procedure for passing the papers

    to the teacher.

    How to pass the Activity Folders to the teacher?

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    Students are to place all collected work into the Activity

    Folder.

    1. Students who are in the row that is NOT across from the

    door (position 8) after all work is in the folder, will pass

    the folder(s) to their left.

    2. Students are to place the folders on the DESK not in a

    students hand.

    3. The folders will move from position 8 to position 2.

    4. As the folder(s) move(s) from desk to desk students will

    put their folder on the top of the folders and pass thefolders to the students to the left.

    5. When the folders reach the person in position 2, the

    teacher or a designated student (position 2 D) will pick

    them up.

    6. Folders will be kept in a designated spot on the brown

    bookshelf.

    7. The folders are to be placed in the box designated for thefolders of that class period.

    8. Only the teacher or one designated person (2D) will pick

    up the folders and return them to the bookshelf.

    Where do I find the Daily Assignments?

    1. Daily Assignments will be on the board to the studentsleft.

    2. These assignments will be on the white board or on a

    piece of chart paper or the Promethean board (teachers

    blog).

    Where do I find Homework Assignments?

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    1. Daily Homework assignments will be on the board to the

    students

    left or on a piece of chart paper or on the teachers blog.

    2. Homework assignments are to be written in the Student

    Agenda

    everyday.

    3. Homework assignments will not be accepted late unless

    the student

    was absent the day before.

    4. Students must have all late homework (absent students) in

    to the teacher within five days of the students return toclass.

    5. Homework assignments will remain on the board or chart

    for the whole week.

    6. If a student returns to class after a sick day and the work

    is no longer posted they are to check their partners

    agenda to see what was covered.

    7. Students may always stay after school and ask the teacher.

    Student Notebook -- What goes in it?

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    1. As part of your Daily Routine-Put the date in your notebook

    every day we have class.

    2. Your Notebook must be dated EVERY day and what ever is

    done that day is to be recorded ( like a journal or diary).

    3. Every entry must be labeled.

    4. Daily Activity/Bell ringer activities must go in the notebook.5. All exercise work (not on worksheets) and homework (unless it

    is a worksheet) must go in the notebook. Be sure to record the

    textbook page number and problem numbers.

    6. If you are absent, you must record the date and put that you were

    absent. Skip the rest of the page for your make-up work.

    7. You must have a journal entry everyday.

    8. Your journal entry must reflect what we did that day and your

    reflections on it (you do this the last few minutes of class while

    folders are being passed up).

    9. Occasionally you will need a sheet of loose leaf paper. Be sure

    that you have some in your binder or folder. No skuiqleys

    please.

    10. If you run out of time during the day to make your journal entry

    you must complete it for homework.

    11. You may record more then one date on each sheet of paper inyour notebook. Do not waste paper. The only exception is when

    you are absent. You must skip the whole page.

    Note: Do not tear pages out. Do not waste paper by drawing on it. A grade

    is given on the notebook each nine weeks.

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    Dismissal at the End of the Day / Period (Begin at 2:15-

    end of the day) and each Period (last 5 minutes of class).

    1. Bells DO NOT dismiss students. The teacher

    dismisses students. Before dismissal:2. Place all textbooks under the student desk.

    3. Pass up activity folders and put them on the shelf.

    4. Position 2A, 2B, 2C, and 2D must collect all of

    the materials on their row and put them in the

    designated place.

    5. Materials are put back in the designatedcontainers.

    6. There is to be no paper left on the floor, in the

    desk, nor on the desk.

    7. Listen for your position to be dismissed

    (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8).

    8. Throw trash away as you exit the classroom.There is never a need to throw paper away during

    class unless we are working on a project.

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    What goes in the Binder or Folder?

    1. Your reference sheet must be in your binder.

    2. Every activity sheet that the teacher gives you must be in

    your binder.3. All returned quizzes and tests must be in the binder.

    4. Your Grade Record Sheet must be in the binder.

    5. Any handouts must be placed in the binder.

    6. Always have about twenty sheets of loose leaf in your

    binder. Refresh it each weekend.

    7. Students will be given a blank sheet of white paper each

    nine weeks. When the weekly progress summary report isgiven, it is to be glued, stapled, or taped on the sheet.

    Students and parents can use this to monitor the students

    grade. This sheet is to be identified with the nine weeks

    and kept in the student binder.

    Note: All items will be removed from the binder / folder each nine

    weeks and turned in for a grade. The grade is based on the

    completeness of the binder / folder.

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    What to do if you need to sharpen a pencil?

    **You were instructed to have a small enclosed

    sharpener with you daily.

    1. Do not disrupt the teacher if she is talking to the class. If

    the teacher is giving instruction wait until she is finished.

    2. You may quietly borrow a pencil from your partner.

    3. When the teacher is finished talking or if the teacher is

    not talking, raise your hand for permission.

    4. If permission is not given, continue working or sit quietly.

    5. If permission is given and no one is at the sharpener, youmay go directly to the sharpener, sharpen your pencil and

    return directly to your seat and continue working.

    6. There is NEVER to be more than ONE person at the

    pencil sharpener at one time.

    7. You must sign the Personal Responsibility form if you

    have no pencil.

    Note: The most appropriate time to sharpen pencils is in

    homeroom and before the teacher begins class.

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    TARDINESS

    You are to be to class, sitting and working before the bell

    rings. IF you are TARDY, when you enter class you areto:

    1. Go to your seat and put your books down.

    2. Return to the Personal Responsibility Form and sign-in.

    3. You are to record the date, why you are late and

    your signature.

    4. If your partner is not in class you must get the ActivityFolder (if it is not already on your desk) and go to your

    seat.

    5. Begin the Daily Routine immediately because you will

    have to make-up for lost time.

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    When instruction is being delivered, what do I do?

    1. You are to have your eyes on the teacher, the board,

    your computer, worksheet etc. Focus on the lesson

    so that if you hear something that you do notunderstand you can ask a question. While the teacher

    is teaching, the ONLY questions allowed are those

    that relate to the lesson being taught.

    2. When you are doing independent work and you need

    help, you are to raise your hand and request help

    from the teacher. Please remember that the teacher isone person and can only help one person at a time.

    Be patient.

    3. You may ask your partner for help quietly. If the

    teacher hears your voice, you are too loud. This is

    totally unacceptable.

    4. No one is allowed to disrupt the learningenvironment.

    What to do when you are absent.

    1. Check the Make-Up Folder. (turn in any completed

    work in Your Activity Folder. You have one week).2. Make-up the work in your notebook. Copy the work

    from a

    friend on the page you were told to skip.

    3. The Wednesday of the week after your absence is the

    day you are to make up any quizzes or tests. This is

    done after school in Mrs. Bonuras classroom. Be sure

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    that you have your parents permission. I will ask to see

    a note.

    4. Failure to make-up your test or quiz grade will result

    in a grade of F.

    *When a visitor enters the room.

    1. You are to remain silent.

    2. Continue working on the assignment.

    Changing groups and forming groups of four

    (procedures will follow)

    What to do if you need tutoring help?

    1. Tutoring is going to be held on Tuesdays.

    2. If the teacher was absent Tuesday morning there will beno tutoring.

    3. You must come to tutoring knowing specifically what

    skill you need addressed. Skills addressed in tutoring

    will be those taught that week in class.

    4. You must have your parents permission to stay.

    5. The teacher must be given a tutoring permission slip

    signed by a parent prior to your reporting for tutoring.

    6. In order to stay after school you must have someone

    pick you up on time.

    7. Tutoring will not last longer than 3:20 p.m.

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    When your parent wants a conference, what to do?

    1. Give the teacher a note stating if the parent wants a

    phone call or would like to come in for a conference.

    2. Phone calls will be made after school.3. Conferences will be held on the day requested

    between 9:00 and 9:15, except on Tuesdays.

    Progress Reports

    1. Students will be given a blank sheet of paper to bekept in the binder.

    2. Each week students will be given a progress report.

    3. The report is to be tapped, stapled or glued on thesheet given by the teacher each nine weeks.

    Staying after school for make-up work and/or tutoring

    1. On the note, your parent must record the date that

    you are staying.

    2. Record on the note how the student will be getting

    home.

    3. Students may stay no longer than 3:30 to complete

    missed tests and/or quizzes.

    Computer Use

    Procedures to follow.

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    DAILY SCHEDULE

    Period 1 07:25-07:45 None

    Period 2 07:45-08:45 Math 6

    Period 3 08:45-09:45 Planning

    Period 4 09:45-10:45 Math 6

    Period 5 10:45-11:45 Math 6

    Lunch Period 11:45-12:15 Lunch

    Period 6 12:15-01:15 Math 6 H

    Period 7 01:15-02:15 Math 6

    Dismissal 02:15-02:20

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    EARLY FINISHERS

    Work on any make-up work that you may have.

    Work on your current journal entry and anyincomplete journal entries .

    Work on the Challenge problem.

    Complete a multiplication, division, addition, or

    subtraction drill on the computer. Use the

    designated website. You must do one of each

    operation before you repeat any.

    Work on your LA Pass test (print when finished)

    You must complete one test per month.

    Work on MTS lesson.

    Watch a Pearson/ Prentice Hall video tutor

    lesson .

    Go to an approved website.

    Put any results in your Daily Folder.

    Work on your homework (only if all of the

    above have been completed.

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    CLASS REWARDS

    Daily: Keep all conduct grade points

    Weekly: Get a Rough Rider Reward

    Ticket (no punish work nor

    detentions issued)

    Monthly:Procedures for Getting Needed Materials

    1. After reading the daily assignment and

    seeing the materials that will be needed for

    the lesson. Position

    2 A-D will get what is needed for their row.

    Pass out 4 of each item (1 per pair) unless

    the assignment says that every individual

    needs to have the item and in that case 8

    items are passed out to each individual in the

    row.

    2. All materials are located on the brown

    bookshelf in the back of the classroom.

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    3. Quickly get what you need and give the

    materials to each of the tables or the 8

    students in your row.

    WEEKLY GRADE SUMMARY SHEET

    Name

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    Procedure for taking care of your desk.

    1. You are not to mark your desk in any way.

    2. No gum chewing in the and no placing gum under the desk.

    3. Students caught chewing gum or eating anything that does not

    come from the teacher will receive a 30 minute detention after

    school and during that time they will have to clean under at

    least three desks.

    4. Students are not to rock back and forth in the desk.

    5. Students are not to deface their desk in any way.