Welcome to
Back-To-School Night!
Ms. Marulli
3rd Grade, Room #9
Jefferson Elementary
Write Your Student!
• Take a moment during our time
together to write down what you
think your child’s favorites are. Then
check what they wrote down on the
other side of the sheet.
• Feel free to write them a note at the
bottom or on the back.
Did you guess correctly?
• On the way in, you noticed the houses outside of
our classroom. Could you identify your child’s? Do
you remember the number? Check inside of your
child’s pencil pouch for the answer. ; )
• If you have any questions for me, please feel free
to talk to me after the presentation or send me
an email.
About Me
• Attended Penn State for undergrad –
B.S. - Crime, Law and Justice; 2 minors
• Attended Montclair State University for grad
school – MAT in Elementary Ed. and certified in
teaching students with special needs
• 7th year teaching overall, 2nd year at Jefferson
teaching 3rd grade
• Past teaching positions include: 4th grade
classroom teacher, in-class support K-6th, 3rd and
4th grade LLD teacher.
Our Daily Schedule
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Morning Work
Writing Workshop
Specials
Reading Workshop
Lunch – 12:15 – 1:00
Science/STEM/Social Studies
Math
Copy down HW and Pack Up
**Extra help: contact me
Our Specials Schedule
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Monday – Spanish (30 min.), Music
Tuesday – Media
Wednesday – Media
Thursday – P.E.
Friday – Art
• Please have your child wear sneakers for P.E.
• Please be sure your child has a smock (colored,
not white) prior to Friday’s art class
Snack
• Each day we have snack around 10:15 AM. Please
send your child in each day with a healthy snack in
a labeled bag separate from their lunch.
• We are a nut-free classroom.
• Your child can keep a water bottle that has a flip
top, straw, or bottle cap on their desk during the
school day. If the water is cold, please send it in
with a sock on the bottom so that the water does
not sweat onto the desk.
• Students can fill up their bottles as needed
during the day.
Dismissal
• 3rd grade dismisses out the front door. I
will dismiss only to those people indicated
on the Dismissal sheet.
• If your child is getting picked up by
another parent, grandparent, etc. and that
person’s name is NOT written on the
Dismissal sheet, please send a note or
email indicating who is picking up your child
on the specific day. That person must pick
up your child from the front entrance.
Homework Expectations
• Each child is responsible for writing down their own HW
from the board and packing their own backpack.
• Students are responsible for using their agenda as a
checklist to bring home all of the materials needed.
• If students have a question or need a resource that they
forgot, the student can call a Study Buddy.
• I will check their agendas and initial them. The last half of
the year students will do partner checks.
• Parents – please sign their agendas each night
• HW should take about 30-40 minutes to complete.
• HW should be completed independently; if there is an
issue, please send in a note attached to the HW explaining
the issue or an email.
Homework Expectations (cont.)
• HW is checked daily and the student can receive a check
plus (100 points), check (90 points) or check minus (80
points).
• If a student does not have their HW complete, didn’t do it,
or forgets it at home, and doesn’t have a parent note:
– the student is expected to fill out a HW excuse form,
– a parent is expected to sign and date the HW excuse,
– the student is expected to return the signed HW
excuse the next day to the teacher along with the
completed HW.
– for every day that the HW is late, students will lose 10
points on that particular assignment
• Please keep track of how many homework excuses come
home.
Friday Folder
• Each Friday I will send home the student’s Friday Folder
containing graded work from the week and occasionally some
HW.
• The cover letter will contain special announcements and
reminders for the upcoming week.
• Sign the cover letter and tear off the Refrigerator
Reminders.
• Sign each piece of graded work (this includes tests, quizzes,
and projects, NOT HW which will have a check, check plus
or check minus)
• Send the signed cover letter and graded work back to
school in the Friday folder with your child for Monday.
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Please write any comments in the Parent comments
section or feel free to write me an email.
Reading Log
• Students are required to read for 20 minutes for
at least 5 days a week. Students should record
their minutes on their log and a parent should
initial next to it.
• Logs are handed out on Tuesday and returned on
Monday. It’s up the the child what 5 days they
want to read.
• Students are also expected to complete the
writing activity on the back of the reading log.
Absence and HW Policy
• If your child is absent, the HW they missed is
due the next school day, unless the teacher says
otherwise or there is a parent note.
• If you want to pick up their HW, please send me
an email ASAP. Pick up their HW in the Main
Office at the end of the day.
• If you would like us to send their HW home with a
sibling, please send me an email indicating their
sibling’s name, grade, and teacher.
Absent / Tardy / Dismissal
• If your child is absent, send an email that day or
send in a note with your child the following day.
• If your child is tardy, sign them in at the Main
Office before sending them to class.
• * Be sure all notes have your child’s first and last
name, teacher name, grade, date and parent
signature.
• If there is a change in how your child is going home,
please be sure that I am notified, as well as the
Main Office.
Birthdays
–We do not celebrate birthdays with food, but
we can do a class craft or a simple activity
(stories, foam crafts, etc.)
– Please contact me prior to your child’s birthday
to make these arrangements.
–If your child has a summer birthday, please
contact me in late May so we are sure to find a
time to celebrate your child’s bday prior to the
end of the school year.
Classroom Rules
• As a class we contributed rules that we felt were
appropriate.
• The students have signed the bottom of the rules
because the rules are a contract. They know that
these are the expectations set.
Individual Behaviors
• Students are expected to follow the classroom
rules on a daily basis.
• If needed, an individual behavior management
system will be put into place such as a clip chart.
• If troublesome behavior becomes a pattern, I will
contact you.
Owl Tickets or Stars
• If a particular student is exceeding the teacher’s
expectations (behaviorally and/or academically),
did a random act of kindness, etc., the student
will be rewarded with an owl ticket or star. (Owl
tickets are equal to stars)
• Students are responsible for keeping these
tickets.
• On their designated day, students can exchange
the tickets or stars for a reward (certificate of
recognition, email or phone call home, or lunch
with the teacher).
Whole Class Behavior –
10 in a row
• When the class is following the classroom rules,
exceeding the teacher’s expectations, or is
complimented by another teacher, a student will
be chosen to select a number from the envelope
at the bottom of the 100 number grid.
• The student will color in the selected number on
the 100 number grid.
• When there are 10 numbers colored in a row, the
class will have earned a class party.
Current Event
• Starting in the 2nd marking period,
students will be taught the importance of
knowing about current events, as well as
how to extract important information
from a current event, write, and speak
about it.
• Two students will be selected each week
to present about a current event.
• Students are expected to complete the
current event for homework and be
prepared on their presentation day.
PARCC
• PARCC testing begins this year.
• The week of testing will be in the
spring.
• I will do my best to prepare the
students for this test.
How to Access My Webpage
1. Go to the Jefferson Elementary School
webpage, http://www.cwcboe.org/Domain/273
2. Click on the Staff link
3. Next, click on Marulli, Lori.
* On my webpage you can find: important
information, helpful links that students can
visit in order to reinforce what we are learning
in school, homework expectations, what we are
currently learning, etc.
How to Contact Me
• I can be best contacted via email
which can be accessed through my
webpage.
lmarulli@staff.cwcboe.org
• The second most preferred way of
contact is through a handwritten
note. Please put the note in your
child’s take home folder.