Star Binders will start going home tomorrow, September 9th!

STAR (Students Taking Academic Responsibility)

The STAR binder is a way for parents and teachers to communicate effectively.  This is also a great way for students to become academically responsible.  They will be in charge of their binder. J  Here are the goals for the binder.

DO

·       Take very good care of your STAR - we will be using it all year long!

·       Take your STAR home every day and bring it back to school the next morning.  This is very important!

·       Show your parents your STAR every night and finish any homework in it.

·       Put your finished homework back inside your STAR.

·       Use the Shooting Star pocket to get your important things to school safely – permission slips, book orders, bus notes, etc.

·       Use the activities in your STAR to practice your sight words, Math home links, and on-level book (to come) every night.

        DON’T

·       Leave your STAR at home, on the bus, in the car, or at a friend's house.

·       Get your STAR dirty; don't eat or drink around your STAR.

·       Write in or on your STAR or put any stickers on it.

·       Put extra papers in your STAR.

·       Take pages out of your STAR - leave everything in your binder that is not in the back pocket labeled “To Keep At Home”.

CALENDAR

There will be a calendar that should stay in your child’s binder for the entire month.  I will try to put all known important dates on the calendar (some dates I will not know ahead of time).  Each day your child will mark where their clip was on the class behavior chart.  They will do this at the end of the day before they pack up to go home.  I realize this is printed in black and white so I will explain the clip chart.  PLEASE know that Happy Camper and above is a very good place to be!  DO NOT feel bad, and your child has been told not to feel bad if they are not above Happy Camper.  J

Junior Ranger:   pink

S’more Great Effort:   purple

I’m on the right trail!:   blue

Happy Camper:   green

Don’t Get Lost:   yellow

Something Stinks:   orange

Parent Contact:   red

I will send home a note if your child was on yellow (more than once; as they can move up and down throughout the day), orange or red.  They will conference with me during recess to talk about why their clip was moved down based on our classroom rules.   The rules are as follows:

#1: I will follow directions quickly                       #2: I will raise my hand to speak

#3: I will use helpful hands and words                #4: I will make smart choices

#5: I will use inside voices                                     #6: I will help make teacher happy

Note: #6 is only there to remind the children that following rules 1-5 will help teacher and our whole classroom happy and running smoothly! J

Please sign and return the note, just so that I know you received the note and it didn’t get lost somewhere on the way home from school. J