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Miss Mawn |
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FAQFrequently Asked Questions: This page contains answers to common questions of students and parents.
What is the best way to get in touch with Miss Mawn? The best way to get in touch with Miss Mawn is to send a note or an e-mail to rmawn@littletonps.org. She checks e-mail once a day, either before or after school.If you do not hear back from her within 48 hours, try to contact her again. Changes to your child's dismissal routine should not be done through e-mail, as she can not guarantee that she will have the chance to read your e-mail in time. Please call the main office for that and other urgent matters. Thank you! How can I volunteer in the classroom? Volunteers are an important part of class! The volunteer program for your child's class will begin in either December or January. The teacher will let you know how you can sign up to help out. You must sign up in advance; it is extremely difficult to accomodate last minute requests to volunteer. If you become free to help later in the year, you will be able to assist with at home projects, copying, bulletin board assistance or other clerical work. Please arrange for childcare for younger children when you volunteer. You can also volunteer for the following things: Art room help, Library help, lunch and recess help, and general office volunteering. Contact those staff members for more information. What if my child does not understand their homework? Please either write me a note or have the child ask me for help at school the next day. What challenges do you provide for my child in the classroom? There is a wide variety of enrichment activities available for children in all subjects. In math, I provide challenging problem solving and enrichment activties on a regular basis. We also will begin to have math centers which is an extension of the math curriculum. In reading, children may be reading in small groups and completing additional enrichment activities. Changes in the reading program delivery also means your child will be working in a specific classroom for 30 minutes a day on a specific area that will benefit them. I also often provide a challenge of the week. What goals are the students working on? At the begining of the school year, the students are focused on remembering to take turns, such as raising their hands and not interrupting, or waiting until the teacher is done speaking to someone else so they can have their turn. It usually takes a few weeks for children to become reaccustomed to these routines after the summer. Also this year, we are focused on the HEART program goals : Honesty, Effort, Acceptance,Taking Responsibilty and Respect. What can I learn from my child's homework? Our philosophy is that homework is to review, reinforce and for the children to develop the routine of completing it and returning it on time. Additionally, the homework should reflect what we are working on in the classroom at that time. It reflects the benchmark goal that your child should be able to meet at the end of that unit. Homework will not be activities that have been mastered in grade 1, nor will it be challenging activiies that second graders are required to master. For example, if we are working on the telling time unit, your child will probably not have homework that involves solely telling time to the hours or telling the time to the minute. Most likely you will see practice of telling time to the half hour or quarter hour. Therefore, the homework may be sometimes a bit easy or a bit challenging for your child depending on how they are doing with the current unit. If it is too hard, see FAQ #3. In summary, you can learn about what we are working on in the classroom from the homework, and you can understand what the benchmark goals are for second graders from the homework. |