Join the PTO
The Parent Teacher Organization supports our school in many ways. Please join or volunteer for activities in any way you can. We appreciate your help in making Valerius a wonderful place to be!
Box Top Labels and Campbells Soup Labels
Go ahead and start saving your Box Top labels and Campbells Soup labels. These companies will donate money back to our school for every label turned in. Just clip and send them to school with your child. I have a box to collect these and we will be accepting them all year!
Behavior Expectations
My behavior plan is something that I have used for the past three years. It’s called the Responsive Classroom approach (www.responsiveclassroom.org). The components of a responsive classroom ensure that social and academic learning are fully integrated throughout the school day.
The first six weeks of the school year are a time when we focus on community building, learning routines and procedures, and rule making. We explore social skills such as cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. Through age-appropriate activities, the students will learn what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to practice each skill.
We begin each day with a morning meeting in order to build a community of caring and respectful learners. At a morning meeting, the students gather with me and other teachers in the room for around 20 minutes. Sitting in a circle, we greet each other, share news, do a group activity, and look forward to the day ahead. This allows the students to get to know each other and build group cohesiveness.
The students will voice their hopes and dreams for their first grade year. Based on these hopes and dreams, we will establish a set of rules to help each student achieve their individual goals. These goal setting sheets will be shared with you, signed and returned to school for your child to keep in his/her data binder. My signature as well as your child's signature will be on that form. This is our way of saying we are in this together to help your child fulfill his/her goals for first grade.
The use of logical consequences is a discipline technique to respond to misbehavior that is respectful to children and helps them take responsibility for their actions. The primary goal of logical consequences is to help children develop inner control by looking closely at their own behavior and learning from mistakes. Most logical consequences fall into one of these three categories: you break it- you fix it, set more limits, or take a break.
We will work hard this year to promote caring for each other, caring for ourselves, and caring for the environment. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
The first six weeks of the school year are a time when we focus on community building, learning routines and procedures, and rule making. We explore social skills such as cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. Through age-appropriate activities, the students will learn what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to practice each skill.
We begin each day with a morning meeting in order to build a community of caring and respectful learners. At a morning meeting, the students gather with me and other teachers in the room for around 20 minutes. Sitting in a circle, we greet each other, share news, do a group activity, and look forward to the day ahead. This allows the students to get to know each other and build group cohesiveness.
The students will voice their hopes and dreams for their first grade year. Based on these hopes and dreams, we will establish a set of rules to help each student achieve their individual goals. These goal setting sheets will be shared with you, signed and returned to school for your child to keep in his/her data binder. My signature as well as your child's signature will be on that form. This is our way of saying we are in this together to help your child fulfill his/her goals for first grade.
The use of logical consequences is a discipline technique to respond to misbehavior that is respectful to children and helps them take responsibility for their actions. The primary goal of logical consequences is to help children develop inner control by looking closely at their own behavior and learning from mistakes. Most logical consequences fall into one of these three categories: you break it- you fix it, set more limits, or take a break.
We will work hard this year to promote caring for each other, caring for ourselves, and caring for the environment. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.