The web page and notebook designed to serve as a multipurpose tool of communicating daily to you as a parent and as a resource for your child as well as you. The web page can be access two ways. It can be access through the school website. The address is blanchard.mcsdga..net. Do not type in “www” to access this page. Then click on “faculty” located on the left. Next, locate “Third Grade” and click on “Wilson”. You can also access it from www.teacherweb.com.  You will be asked to select the state, school and teacher from a pull down bar.  The web page contains homework and spelling words for the week. It will also have an updated calendar and announcements to keep you inform with upcoming events and pertinent information that are vital in the community as well as in the school. 

The Notebook is divided into five sections- a pouch, communication, conduct, homework, and resources. Each section is color-coded.  All information and or documentations for each section will be printed on a particular colored paper.  Each section contains essential information/ materials that may require your immediate attention and/or documentation /activities for your child or you to complete.  The pouch will house pencils, and other supplies your child may need in school and at home on a regular bases. I recommend that the students leave 2 to 3 pencils, a glue stick, pair of scissors inside of the pouch so she or he will have all materials available for him or her to complete homework within the binder.

The communication section will house three components- communicator, a parent- teacher correspondence, Absences forms, and newsletters.  The communicator component will house your child’s graded assignments, memorandums, PTA information and other vital school or district information. Please make it a habit of asking your child to check his or her communicator daily. This way, your child will get in the habit of forwarding all graded papers, memorandums, and forms to you.  The communicator will have all of your child’s assignments from the previous week or two.  Weekly graded assignments and activities will be placed inside of your child’s communicator at least every other week.  It will also have a communication/grade sheet for you to sign. The communication/grade sheet will be housed inside of a sheet protector. The sheet communicates conduct, subject areas, and work habits your child needs to improvement in. It also provides a section for you and I to communicate on your child’s progress. Please sign the sheet, initial all graded sheets, and return the communication/grade sheet along with the stapled pack of graded assignments the next school day. If you fail to return all graded papers, I will be unable to forward your child’s remaining paper until the previous pack is initialed and returned. However, you will be more than welcome to come in a review the pack. When you send money to school, please put it in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name, my name, the purpose of the money, and place it in the communicator.  If your student brings money to school without a note or envelope explaining it purpose, I will return it back inside the communicator. This procedure protects your child from any misunderstandings. The parent- teacher correspondence component will allow you to communicate daily or as needed on concerns, questions, and problems. I will also use it with questions and concerns that I may have. Whenever I write a note to you, I will place the sheet inside of your child’s communicator (envelope). This way, your child will remove the sheet once he or she get home and forward the sheet to you.  I would like for you to do the same.  If you have any questions, concerns or information that need to be returned, please place it in your child’s communicator.  Each morning your child is responsible for checking and removing any papers from the communicator. I have also enclosed two absence forms for you to utilize when you child is absent.  Please complete the form and place it in your child’s communicator envelope. According the Muscogee County School District policy, you have 3 days to send in a note stating the nature of the absence. A student is only allowed to make-up assignments when the absence is excusable. For more information on absences, please refer to the Student Behavior Code and Discipline Policy Handbook sent home in August. The newsletter component is design to provide information on what is happening in the classroom and the school as well as the weekly objectives for each subject area.  The newsletter will be placed in your child’s communication. Once you have read the newsletter, please place it in the newsletter component of the notebook. 

The conduct section will house a copy of the conduct policy for you to reference and a transaction sheet noting the number and amount of withdrawals within a week as well as your child conduct grade for the week. Once your child looses conduct money, she or he will complete a withdrawal form for you to sign. The withdrawal form will be sent home inside of the communicator daily.

Homework section will house your child’s assignment book, homework pocket and reading log. Your child will be responsible for writing his or her assignments in the assignment book correctly. Your child will be given time to record the homework assignment in class. Your child must obtain your initial each night. Your initial signifies that you were aware that your child had homework. It will be beneficial to your child if you verify all assignments have been completed each night and remind him or her to place the assignments back inside of the homework pocket before going to bed. This will ensure that your child materials would be more likely returned the next school day. I would also advise you to have your child pack his or her book bag before bed and place it by the door so that it can be grabbed on the way out in the morning.  The homework pocket will house all homework assignments for the day.  The reading log will have your child reading log form. Your child must document nightly minutes, pages, and write a brief summary over the book she or he read. You must initial this form as well. 

The Resource section will house an array of information/ resources for your child to utilize. It will also serve as a reference area for concepts and skills reviewed.

It is vital that you assist your child in keeping the notebook organized.  Please closely monitor the notebook organization and homework routines for the first grading period, then it should become a habit for your child and you will have to spend less time on it later.   If your child fails to turn in materials/or have a note signed, s/he will receive a letter addressing the missing material(s). Please sign the missing material form and return the form along with the missing material(s) the next school day. If the missing material form is not return and/or sign, a phone call will be placed to the parent requesting for item(s) and form. 

THE GRADING SYSTEM