Lines and Lining Up
Bathroom Procedures
Classroom Library
Misc.
Arrival/Dismissal/Lunc
100
Under the covered area, in the line closest to the basketball hoops.
What is where we will line up after recess?
100
Before 8:30, during recess and lunch.
What is when it is appropriate to go to use the restroom?
100
The labels on the back of the book match the label on the front of the correct tub.
What is how our library is organized?
100
Stop what you are doing. Put your materials down, face the teacher, and listen for instructions.
What is what to do when you hear a quiet signal?
100
Wash your hands in the sink or use hand sanitizer. Get your lunch and jacket. Line up in number order.
What is how to get ready for lunch?
200
Take one step at a time, and have your hand on or just hovering above the handrail.
What is how to travel SAFELY down the stairs?
200
Hold up your bathroom pass or a dime.
What is how you let the teacher know you would like to be excused to go to the restroom?
200
Books in the window area are for everyone (they are the classroom library books), books on the shelves under the whiteboard are for the teacher only (they are teaching books).
What is how to tell which books are part of the classroom library?
200
First Name, Last Initial, #, and Date
What is the heading that should be on every paper?
200
You should have a note from your parents. Give the note to Mrs. Wallace with your homework in the morning. Mrs. Wallace will put the note up on one of the hooks near the dismissal area.
What is what to do if you have a different dismissal arrangement?
300
Walk quietly in your own space. Stay with the class. Walk directly where you are going.
What is SAFE and KIND behavior when walking in the hallway?
300
The teacher may want you to hear an important part of the lesson, or finish an important assignment first, if you can wait.
What is why the teacher will ask if it is an "emergency" when you hold up your bathroom pass?
300
A small pile of books you are planning to read, and that are appropriate to help you learn are kept in your book bag. You may trade books in your bag when you meet with the teacher, or on Friday mornings after your spelling test. Book bags should have all the books you need for ind. reading for the week.
What are the rules for book bags?
300
Put it in the yellow folder. Check the yellow folder whenever you have free time to work in class. Finish it up before Friday Choice Time.
What is what to do with unfinished work?
300
Hang up your backpack and put away your lunch. Put your homework on the side table. Take down your chair and begin reading or writing.
What is the morning routine?
400
In # order, beginning with the number of today's date. If the date is higher than any classroom #, the teacher will decide who is first.
What is how we line up in our classroom?
400
You will miss learning time and if you don't use your pass, you are eligible for the bathroom pass drawings.
What is why you should be responsible for using the restroom during break times?
400
When you read a page, you find between 1-4 words that you're not sure of, or are a little tricky. This way the book is not too easy, and the book is not too hard.
What is the five-finger rule?
400
Sit flat, face the speaker, keep yourself to yourself, turn your voice off.
What is how to have good carpet manners?
400
Get your backpack and lunch, and take them to your seat. Get your mail and put it in your backpack at your seat. Clean off the top of your desk, and the floor area around and under your desk. If you have time, tidy the inside of your desk as well. Try to finish before the song is over.
What is the personal clean-up routine?
500
Face front, voice off, stay in your own space.
What is how to manage yourself in line?
500
Put your pass or dime in the green basket, sign out on the Bathroom Log, and put the cone on your desk on your way out.
What is what you do when you are excused to go to the restroom?
500
Turn pages gently, don't push them. Carry the book closed. Don't bend a book backwards. Put it away right side up and closed.
What is how to care for a book?
500
Get out your other sharpened pencil. Sharpen the broken one with your sharpener or the table sharpener as soon as you can. Only use the electric sharpener during non-teaching time, and non-quiet work time.
What is what to do if your pencil breaks?
500
Work with your team. Straighten up your table basket, your table supplies, and clean up your zone.
What is the team clean-up routine?