Who is Mrs. Jones?
• Born and Raised in
Irving Texas
• Graduated from
MacArthur High School
• Activities:
– Softball
– Choir
– Spirit Squad
– Student Council

Who is Mrs. Jones?
• Graduated from
Texas A&M!

Who is Mrs. Jones?
• This will by my fourth year teaching.
– 3 years Language
Arts
– One year Social
Studies

Who is Mrs. Jones’
• Met Mr. Jones’ in 2009
• Married Mr.
Jones’ in 2014

These are a few of my favorite things…

Classroom Expectations
• Music is playing you can talk
• Music isn’t playing go immediately silent!
• When I’m talking you are not
• Be respectful

Classroom Procedures

Bell ringer
• Every morning when you come in you will pick up a bell ringer and complete it in the first 5 minutes of class.

Being Prepared
• I expect you to come to class everyday with a pencil and pencil sharpener.
• If by chance you are not prepared I can let you borrow a pencil but it will cost you.

Focus Poetry
• We will do focus poetry for 5 minutes each day.
• It is important that you do focus poetry very quickly.

Reading and Writing Workshop
• We will read and write everyday.
• 45 minutes for reading
• 45 minutes for writing
• It is important that you do all you work quickly and efficiently!
• We have a lot to learn this year.

Turn in and Take Home
• Each class has a place to turn in work and a place to receive graded work.
• Make sure when you turn papers in your name is on it.
• I throw away no name papers!

Missing Work
• If you are missing an assignment in the grade book your name will be posted on the missing work board.
• Your parents will also be notified.

Incomplete Work
• You will have plenty of time to complete work in my class.
• If you do not finish you will take it home with a note to your parents saying why you didn’t finish it

Classroom Storage
• Each classroom has a cabinet to store the items you need for my class.
• I will assign someone to pass out materials
• I will assign someone to collect materials

Absent: We missed you!
• If you are absent you will find the work assigned for you that day in the we missed you box
• If there is nothing their ask Mrs. Jones immediately
• You have one day for each absent day to complete work before it becomes “missing”

Bathroom
• I will give you all 5 bathroom passes for the 9 weeks
• You only have 5 don’t waste them
• If you do not use them you can put them in a drawing to win something.

Classroom Library
• We will be reading
EVERYDAY in class you must have a book to read.
• We will be going to the
Library weekly to checkout books
• If you forget to bring a book you can use my classroom library.

Mailbox
• Every Friday, I will read questions, comments, concerns out of my mailbox.
• You can request songs, jokes, etc

School Supplies
• You need these supplies for my classroom:
– 2 same colored folders
(brads
• (2 green, 2 purple)
– 1 blue brad folder
– Index cards
– 1 composition book
– 1 Bottled glue (no sticks)
– 1 lined paper

Questions?