Whole Group Rules
This is what Mr. Estrada expects you to write with in math and ELA.
What is a pencil?
Students should be doing this when completing any kind of work in class.
What is doing our (your) best?
This is what you should be doing when you finish your morning work.
What is reading or using computers quietly?
This is how everything in the classroom should be treated.
What is respectfully and carefully?
Students that need to go somewhere that's not the bathroom or to drink water should always be carrying this.
What is a hall pass?
This is what students are doing while the teacher is teaching, going over instructions, or reviewing an important skill.
Hint: TWO things
What is listening and following along?
What students should be doing when they finish a worksheet or cooldown.
What is placing it in one of the bins (usually purple)?
This is how morning work should be completed.
What is independently and without getting answers from friends?
This is where snacks should never be.
HINT: TWO Things. One is obvious and the other may take a little bit of thinking.
DON'T LEAVE SNACK TRASH ANYWHERE THAT IS NOT THE TRASH CAN. If you drop crumbs or bits of snack, PICK. IT. UP.
What every student does when they come back from the bathroom or drinking water.
What is move our number back?
This is what Mr. Estrada says is okay to do when learning something new.
What is making mistakes?
OR
What is a mistake?
This is what independent means.
What is doing it on your own (not copying)?
This is the voice level students should be at when packing up.
What is level 0?
This is how the class should be walking in the hallways.
What is single, straight and silent?
ESPECIALLY when passing back classrooms or rooms.
This is when students should be asking to use the restroom or to drink water.
HINT: 3 different answers.
What is during a test, with a substitute, or during important lessons?
When giving partner work or table group work, you should...
What is engage and work with your partner ALWAYS?
When a student is stuck on a question or part of an assignment.
What is asking for help (classmate or teacher)?
This is what students do when ready to go home.
HINT: There's FOUR things.
What is grabbing our backpacks, cleaning desks, cleaning under team desks, doing jobs (if you have one) and sitting back down at our seats?
This is how you should behave when at a special or with a different adult.
What is respectfully and focused?
This is what to do when you need to use the restroom or drink water.
What is get up and move your number?
Students should be doing this when their teacher or classmate is TALKING.
HINT: TWO things.
What is listening and having a level zero voice?
This is where most noise level should be?
What is level 0-1?
Quiet chatter (especially if related to the class work) is absolutely fine!
This is what students should be doing EVERY day when they arrive in the classroom.
HINT: THREE things.
What is putting away backpacks, grabbing materials for the day, and completing morning work?
This is where coats, instruments and backpacks should ALWAYS go.
What is the closet?
This is where your papers, packets, and notes should go.
What is a folder?
Never just shoved inside your desk.