Mrs. Rogers’

Mrs. Rogers’2nd Grade

Meet The Teacher August 26, 2021

Welcome to 2nd GradeMrs. Rogers

Contact Information [email protected]

School phone: 281-482-5400Teacher Webpage:

https://www.pearlandisd.org/site/Default.aspx?PageID=5348

Conference Time 9:50-10:35

All About Mrs. Rogers• This is my 12th year in teaching and 2nd year to teach 2nd grade!

• I have 3 children: Benjamin, Ethan and Mia

• Ben is 17 and a senior, Ethan is 15 and a sophomore, Mia is 10 and in 5th grade.

• My fur-babies are Bobby, Kit-Kat and Lucy.

• My husband and I have been married for 19 fun-filled years!

• We love to go on road trips, fish, swim and have family game night.

2nd Grade Teachers

• Mrs. Myer• Mrs. Simmons• Mrs. Kemp • Mrs. Rogers • Mrs. Smith• Mrs. Whalen

Important School Information

Rustic Oak Elementary SchoolHours/Arrivals

• School Hours: 7:55—3:15

• Students may enter the building at 7:15.

– Students may eat breakfast in the cafeteria from 7:30-7:50 and then go to their classrooms.

– Students will come down to the 2nd grade hallway @ 7:30 and sit in the hallway by their classroom.

– At 7:55 the tardy bell rings.

– School starts @ 7:55 this year.

– Conference/Specials Time: 9:50-10:35

Snacks and Drinks• Healthy finger food snacks like cereal, carrots, pretzels, crackers,

fresh fruits, vegetables, and drinks are allowed.

• Please do not send anything to be eaten with a spoon (pudding, fruit cups, etc.).

• Students may bring water bottles but they must be reusable, preferably one with a straw type or small mouth opening (where it can be closed). NO plastic Ozarka bottles.

• Water fountains will not be available to drink from the spout, but the refill water station will be open for students to refill their water bottles.

Lunch • Our lunch time is 12:12-12:42 this year.

• DUE to COVID-19, parents are not allowed to eat lunch with their child at this time.

• Also, parents are currently not allowed to drop off food from outside vendors. If this changes, more information will be given.

NOTE: If your child leaves their lunch box in the car or at home, we have a cart inside the entrance to the building for you to drop your child’s lunch.

Student Handbook/ Parent Volunteers

• The handbook can be found on the website, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

• Due to COVID, there will be no parent volunteers on campus. This may be subject to change at a later time.

• Please join PTA to help support programs that provide learning materials for our students at Rustic Oak Elementary.

Birthdays • Your child’s name will be announced on the

morning when it is their birthday.

• Birthday party invitations may be passed out if there is one for everyone in the class or for every boy or every girl in the class.

• You may not pass out birthday invitations to students who are in other classes. That will have to be done outside of school.

• Birthday party invitations should be given to your child's teacher and the teacher will place in their daily folders to go home.

Dress Code Review• Dress Code Policy can be found in the student

handbook.

• Masks are highly encouraged as part of the student dress code per the district requirements until further notice.

• Also, please make sure to have a change of clothes with your child’s name on it in your child’s backpack at all times.

• Please refer to page 8 of the student handbook for specific questions about the dress code.

Attendance• Tardy bell rings at 7:55 am.• If your child has 5 or more tardies in a 9 weeks period, it will

count against them for perfect attendance.• We submit my attendance at 10:00 am daily.• Please be on time and present every day.• If a student is returning from an absence/doctor’s appt., please

send a written note for the absence to be considered excused.• When writing an excuse note you must include the child’s name,

date, and teacher on a full piece of paper.• Please make sure to submit your child's absence note to me no more

than 3 days after their absence. You may also submit an absence excuse note on our Pearland ISD Website under the parents tab then, absence reporting.

• Excuse notes cannot be emailed anymore. A doctor’s office can fax a note or please bring a note from the doctor the next day when your child returns to school. The district policy is three days to submit an excuse note to the campus after a student has been absent.

Dismissal • Please try not to change your child’s transportation unless it

is an EMERGENCY. It’s hard for kids to remember when parents are changing the way they go home frequently.

• Please do not e-mail changes of transportation. It is best to call the office by 2:00 p.m. or sooner if there is a change of transportation.

• Morning and afternoon drop off/pick up: Please remember to exit quickly, your child will be opening and closing their own car doors. When getting in the car, if you need to buckle in your child, please pull up. We have a designated area called the “buckle up zone”

• If your child is a car rider please do not arrive before 3:15, the gate by the track opens at 3:00 daily.

Stacking Lane Slide

Do not enter the stacking lane from 2351. There is no left turn into the stacking lane. This causes a traffic jam. Do not arrive prior to 3:05. Dismissal is at 3:15 this year. We cannot block the flow of traffic on Rustic Lane. Do not block parking lot entrance so our buses can get into our parking lot. Please make sure your car rider sign is written in large black sharpie print so Mrs. Golden can easily read it from your car. Car rider signs can be located on our Rustic Oak Webpage.

E-mail/Devices • I will respond to parent e-mails before school,

during my conference time, and afterschool.

• I don’t have time during instruction to really respond to e-mails.

• Once all students have devices, they will be responsible for bringing their devices back and forth to school each day.

• Please make sure your child is charging their device each night.

Daily Schedule7:45am – 8:00AMPrep for the day/Announcements

8:00 – 9:30AMMath Warm Up/Whole Group/Math Small Group

9:30-9:50AMIndependent Reading/Tutoring

9:50-10:35AM SPECIALS: We are on a 6-day rotation, but we will go to PE every other day. Please check the “Peek of the Week” for schedule

10:35-10:45AMRestroom break & Snacks

10:45-11:45AMGuided Reading

11:45AM–12:10PMSpelling/Word Study

12:12–12:42PMLUNCH

12:42-12:50PMRestroom break

12:50-2:00PMShared Reading/Language Arts,Writer’s Workshop, Grammar, Handwriting

2:00-2:30PMRecess

2:30-3:00PMScience/Social Studies

3:00-3:10PMRead Aloud

3:10-3:15PMGet Ready for Dismissal

**COMPUTER LAB: Mondays @1:00-1:45

Helping All to Succeed

Classroom Discipline Plan and

Student Conduct

Specials Rotation Color Schedule

• Color Rotation

• Red Day- PE

• Orange Day- Music

• Yellow Day- PE

• Green Day- Art

• Blue Day- PE

• Purple Day- Library

Classroom Discipline Plan

Be Safe

Be Respectful

Be Responsible • These are our 3 main rules/areas we are focusing on campus-wide.

• In your child’s Friday Folder, you can see the Correction Chart Matrix as to how their conduct grades are coded.

• Please sign and return the folders on Monday.

Conduct Guidelines

Conduct Marks Work Habits

E= 0-1 Marks E= 0-1 Marks

S= 2 Marks S= 2 Marks

N= 3-4 Marks N= 3-4 Marks

U= 5 or more U= 5 or more

You may always check your child’s grades in Skyward.

Classroom Rewards

• Students will be rewarded for positive behavior.

• When students are being respectful, safe, and responsible, they can color in a number on the hundreds chart. Once the hundreds chart is filled up, there will be a special class reward that they will receive.

Conduct Sheet/Peek of the Week

• The Conduct Sheet is sent home Weekly in the red Friday Folder.

• Please sign the conduct sheet and return on Mondays.

• Also, please make sure to empty your child’s folder of their papers and memos.

• Conduct grade reflects their weekly behavior.

• Peek of the week will be given on Fridays of each week and should be kept in their blue Daily Folder.

• If you happen to misplace the Peek of the Week or need another copy you may always find it on my webpage.

Helping All to Succeed

Take Home Papers and Grades

Student Daily Folder/Friday Folder

• Peek of the Week is sent home on Fridays in the red Weekly Folder.

• Conduct Report (Weekly) red Friday Folder

• Graded Papers (Weekly) red Friday Folder

Grading• In 2nd Grade students will receive numeric grades in Math,

Reading, and Lang. Arts.• They will receive letter grades of S, N, and U in Science,

S.Studies, and Handwriting.• In their Conduct, and Work Habits grade will be letter grades of

E, S, N, U.• If a child receives less than a 70 on their daily work assignment

they will have a chance to re-do the assignment for full credit up to a 70.

• Progress Report: Every 3 Weeks• Report Card: Every 9 Weeks• Progress Reports and Report Cards are all paperless now and are

available to view and sign in Skyward.• Please make sure to sign your child’s progress report and Report

Card each 9 weeks in Skyward.• Check Student Grades on Skyward, there is a link on Pearland

Website.

Grading Cont. • On their Language Arts Grades, their Spelling only counts for 10%

of their Lang. Arts grade.

• The other 90% of their grade will be coming from their Grammar skills.

• Note: I will be using a Spelling Spiral this year and students will take their spelling tests in the spiral weekly.

• The spirals will be sent home every Friday with their weekly folder. If the child makes below a 70, I will require a parent signature.

Grading Scale

A: 90-100

B: 80-89

C: 70-79

F: 69-60

Device Expectations• Please have your child plug in his or her device every night

to ensure it is fully charged and ready for each day.

• If you ordered EPI PTA supplies, their supplies came with earbuds; however, if your child prefers headphones, you may send those to school.

• If you purchased school supplies separately for your child, you will need to send in headphones for them to use.

• Your child must have a laptop device, if you did not register for one on Skyward you may still do so by letting the office know if you would like.

BAS (Reading Level)• This year we have a Reading level assessment system called BAS (Benchmark

Assessment System)

• On the Report Card, there is a section for your child’s BAS Reading level.

• When your child enters 2nd grade they should be reading at J BAS Level.

• By the end of 2nd grade they should be at a level M. (If they are higher than a level M, like an N, it's not a bad thing and it doesn't mean that your child needs improvement.)

• We understand that your child might not be at the level where they are supposed to be at right now.

• We will be working diligently with them as well as asking for your help at home to make sure they are reading as much as possible.

• You will see their Reading levels each 9 weeks on their Report Cards, typically in 2nd

grade the students do not move up levels as quickly as students do in 1st grade.

• In 2nd grade we are focused more on comprehension and making sure the child is understanding what they are reading before moving up a reading level.

• If you ever have questions about your child’s reading level please feel free to ask me at any time.

Accelerated Reading Program

• Accelerated Reading program- students can access this program at home now too. This is a great program that encourages and promotes a healthy love of Reading.

• We set a goal every 9 weeks for our students to meet. If students reach their AR Goal at the end of each 9 weeks they will get a certificate and a treat from me.

• At the end of the year, if students reach their AR Goal each grading period then they will receive a medal from the librarian.

• This program may also be accessed at home.

The Giving TreeThe items below are things that we use in the classroom and would be greatly appreciated if you would like to contribute any of these items.

• Clear packing tape

• Lysol Spray

• Colored Card Stock or Printer Paper

• Lamination Sheets (8 ½ by 11)

• Smelly Markers

Parent Teacher Communication

• Please don’t hesitate to contact me regarding any questions or issues that you may have.

• You may e-mail me, send me notes, or leave me a message at the front desk.

• I’m here for you and your child and want your child to be successful.

• I believe that it takes parents and teachers working together for a successful year!

• Thank you for coming tonight and I look forward to working with you this year.