You are probably going to hear this statement more than one time this year: Your child's Student Planner is his/her second grade bible! It needs to be brought to school EVERY day and taken home EVERY night. It cannot be replaced, so it cannot be lost or left somewhere. In it, you will find a lot of information including your child's weekly spelling words, liturgical season, daily saint, notes from me, daily assignments, AR goal for the quarter, prayers, maps, information pages, calendars and many other things. It is VERY important for you to become well acquainted with its contents. It is equally important for you to initial the box that contains the date and name of the day on the extreme left. This shows me that you have read your child's planner. When it comes back to school the next day, I will check it and star it if it has been initialed. If it has not been initialed by you or another responsible adult, I will circle it. If there are three circles in a row, there will be a consequence.
Please note that it is your child's responsibility to copy his/her assignments from the white board into his/her student planner. It is also his/her responsibility to ask you to sign it and his/her responsibility to place it back into a backpack so that it can arrive at school the next day. If it does not come back the next day, your child will be asked to call home to have it brought to school. YES! IT IS THAT IMPORTANT!
There will be an approximately one month "training period" for the children to learn how to use a student planner. They will be continually reminded to copy the white board into the correct subject box on the correct day and date. They will be reminded to put it into their backpack. When they arrive home, they might need some prompting from you for awhile.......Did you bring your student planner home?.......Did you put it back in your backpack?
Each year we use a variety of abbreviations and symbols in the subject boxes. The children will be learning these shorter ways of writing in their student planners:
RN - Reading, Spelling, and English workbook pages
WS - worksheet
HW - handwriting
SSN - Social Studies News
SCN - Science News
PRO - Project
A Check mark - means an assignment has been completed
A Circled assignment - means the assignment is homework
Please note that it is your child's responsibility to copy his/her assignments from the white board into his/her student planner. It is also his/her responsibility to ask you to sign it and his/her responsibility to place it back into a backpack so that it can arrive at school the next day. If it does not come back the next day, your child will be asked to call home to have it brought to school. YES! IT IS THAT IMPORTANT!
There will be an approximately one month "training period" for the children to learn how to use a student planner. They will be continually reminded to copy the white board into the correct subject box on the correct day and date. They will be reminded to put it into their backpack. When they arrive home, they might need some prompting from you for awhile.......Did you bring your student planner home?.......Did you put it back in your backpack?
Each year we use a variety of abbreviations and symbols in the subject boxes. The children will be learning these shorter ways of writing in their student planners:
RN - Reading, Spelling, and English workbook pages
WS - worksheet
HW - handwriting
SSN - Social Studies News
SCN - Science News
PRO - Project
A Check mark - means an assignment has been completed
A Circled assignment - means the assignment is homework