Fourth Grade Policies
We are excited about the new school year and about the opportunity to work with your child. Here is some information you may need to have while your child is in the fourth grade.
Conference Period: 2:30-3:15 p.m. daily. If you would like to visit with either or both of us and/or this time is not convenient, please call the office in order to make arrangements. Since school begins at 7:50, therefore all conferences need to be scheduled. School is dismissed at 3:20.
Student Planners: Each child is given their own student planner. They write their daily assignments and upcoming activities in it every day. This is a way to monitor your child’s activities and assignments on a daily basis. The planner MUST be brought back the very next morning.
Weekly Folders: Each Friday your child will bring home a folder that contains his/her weekly conduct sheet for you to sign and return on Monday morning. This will verify that you have seen your child’s behavior. The folder will also contain graded work for your review. This will help you to be aware of your child’s progress.
Homework: Homework consists of any unfinished class work, library books, Science or Social Studies reports and studying for tests. They will be given time in class to work on their assignments and there is a tutorial time built into the schedule at the end of each day. However, there may be some extra time needed to do it at home. Students may work on unfinished assignments, get added assistance or study for a test. When a student has an excused absence, they have the same number of days that they were absent in order to make up any missed class work. Example: Students is absent on Monday and turns to school on Tuesday. The student will be given the work on Tuesday and will have one day to complete the assignments and turn them in on Wednesday.
Late Work: Work assigned in class one day is due the following morning unless directed otherwise. If the work is not completed and turned in the next morning, the assignment will still be completed but will loose 10 points. All assignments not turned in by Friday of the week it is late, will not be accepted the next week and will receive a grade of 0.
Tardy Policy: Students report to the cafeteria until they are dismissed at 7:55 a.m. to go to their classrooms. Any student arriving to class after the 8:02 a.m. dismissal bell will be marked tardy. After the third tardy of the six weeks, the student will be sent to lunch detention that day.
Report Cards: Report cards will be sent home every six weeks. We will also send a progress report home with every child on the third week of each six weeks in order to keep you informed of your child’s progress up to that point. This will give the children three weeks to bring up any unsatisfactory grades.
Grading Policy: Test will count twice in the relating subject. Daily grades will count once. NO TEST MAY BE CORRECTED FOR A HIGHER GRADE. Daily work with a grade of less than 70 can be corrected and turned by the following Friday. Corrections will raise their grade but not give them a 70 average. This means, if any points are missed they will be taken from a 70. Each missed item will be worth one point. Their new grade is therefore an average of the original grade and the corrected one.
Example: Original grade-50
Corrected grade-70
Averaged new grade-60
Discipline Plan: Step 1: Verbal warning
Step 2: Conduct mark given in their conduct folder*
Step 3: Lunch detention
Step 4: Parent email/phone call
Step 5: Parent conference
Step 6: Office visit
*3 of the same offenses marked in the folder will cause an office visit
*3 marks in the same week will cause missing the extra recess on Friday
Once again, we are very excited about this year. We hope you and your child are, too. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Thanks for you support,
Mrs. Easterling & Mrs. Smith