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Welcome Parents or Guardian and Students,

The school year is now here, and I hope you and your child are just as anxious as I am! I have planned many activities, lessons and fieldtrips in order for your children to get the most learning out of this year. This year is going to be a new an exciting experience for all students and I. With that being said, I want this class to grow with one another and on a personal level in academics, self-confidence and approve social skills. I plan on doing this by evaluating each student the first week, and from there we can both develop your child in and out of the classroom. In order for good academic growth to happen, there needs to be good communication between guardians, students and myself. As a first year teacher, I plan on communicating with you and your child as must as possible.

In order for the communcation to go smoothly, I plan on sending out a newsletter weekly home with your child. This way if you have any questions or concerns it can be brought to my attention that following Monday. In that newsletter it will only be information on this classroom. But in addition to our newsletter the school sends one out with the children as well. In our newsletter though, I will be stating homework due dates for the upcoming week, what the children need to be focusing on, what has been happening in the classroom during the past week and any upcoming events (fieldtrips, tests,etc) that need to be brought to your attention.

Briefly I want to talk about homework and my policy. Homework is made for the children to learn in and out of the classroom, also it gives you some time to sit down and help them. Assigning work outside of the class teaches the children responsibility, and to adjust to responsibility and good work ethics for further education. This homework should take them anywhere from 30-60 minutes at the most, rarely will their homework extend of 60 minutes. If homework is extending more than over 60 minutes a couple times a week, than we can discuss that. Not all subjects will be assigned every night, and no homework will be assigned on Friday. Math will be 4 days out of 5 days, spelling and reading 3 out of 5 days, science 2 or 3 out of 5 days and history 2 or 3 out of 5 days. For reading days and at home reading, we have a library your child is more than welcome to check books out from, and also in our classroom we have quite a selection they can check out from me to use as well.

In order for your child to be organized, he or she will write down in their notebooks of the homework that needs to be done that night. Those notes can be viewed in one section of the board that I will point out to them their first day, and also I give atleast ten minutes at the end of the day before dismissal to copy it all down. You can expect your child to have homework every night, so please sit down and go through it with them. If the homework is incomplete, I will send a "ALERT" home with your child. Alert is a pass that has to be signed by the parent or guardian that night in order for me to give them an extra day to do this assignment. If for any reason your child is sick, hospitalized or any serious conditon send me a note with the alert letter and they will be excused from that assignment.

- crayons and/ or colored pencils, and markers - 1 eraser and 1 glue stick - 1 box of kleenex - 2 note books
 * Recommended items for class consists of:**
 * -** pencils ( mechanical or regular)

You may purchase other things for your child, but these are the only things I recommend getting to make sure your child is prepared for my class.

To get ahold of me, I check my e-mail as frequently as possible. This is probably the quickest way to contact me. Please dont hesist to e-mail me at: meyer3am@cmich.edu. If you do not use e-mail, you can contact me by phone (586) xxx-xxxx, or sending a letter with your child. I am more than willing to set up conference times and to discuss any questions or concerns that you may have. :-)

Can't wait to meet all of you, and enjoy our wonderful year together!! Sincerely, Ms. Meyers.

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