My School Promise Poem

My School Promise

 

Each day I'll do my best
And I won't do any less.

My work will always please me,
And I won't accept a mess. 

 

I’ll color very carefully.
My writing will be neat.

And I will not be happy,
Till my papers are complete. 
 
I’ll always do my homework,
And try my best on every test.

I won’t forget my promise,
To do my very best! 

Author Unknown

The ABC's of a Successful Year For Parents

The ABC's of a Successful Year For Parents

Ask your child about the school day. Begin your child's day with a nourishing breakfast. Congratulate your child for doing well. Discuss homework with your child. Encourage your child to read. Find a quiet place for your child to study. Give your child responsibility. Hug your child to build self worth. Include your child in making simple family decisions. Join a library with your child. Keep your child on a schedule that includes exercise and sleep. Limit TV viewing/video game playing by selecting programs with your child. Make the time you spend with your child special.   Notice and discuss changes in your child's behavior. Offer to help your child organize school papers. Provide your child with good role models. Question the activities your child shares with friends. Respect your child's right to have opinions different from yours. Share an interest or a hobby with your child. Take time to listen to your child. Urge your child to get involved with school and extra curricular activities. Visit places of interest with your child. Work with your child to set up rules of behavior. Xerox and save records or articles that benefit your child. Yield results by encouraging your child to do better. Zoom through these ABC's again and again! -- author unknown --

The ABC's of a Successful School Year

The ABC's of a Successful School Year

Attend school regularly.
Be prepared for class.
Communicate your needs in a respectful manner.
Develop a positive attitude.
Eat a good breakfast each morning.
Focus on your goals.
Give yourself a pat on the back regularly.
Help yourself before seeking assistance.
Imagine what you'd like to be as an adult.
Join in on all class activities and discussions.
Keep on task.
Learn as much as you can.
Make the most of every situation.
Note your progress.
Optimize your talents.
Put forth your best effort.
Quickly resolve conflicts.
Run your race with the intention of winning.
Study! Study! Study!
Trust yourself and try new things.
Use your time wisely.
Voice your opinions.
Watch out for distractions.
"X"-amine your work carefully.
You are capable of great things.
Zoom in on your strengths!

 

Author Unknown

Children Learn What They Live

Children Learn What They Live 
By Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Why God Made Teachers

Why God Made TeachersBy Kevin William Huff

When God created teachers,
He gave us special friends
To help us understand His world
And truly comprehend
The beauty and the wonder
Of everything we see,
And become a better person
With each discovery. 

When God created teachers,
He gave us special guides
To show us ways in which to grow
So we can all decide
How to live and how to do
What's right instead of wrong,
To lead us so that we can lead
And learn how to be strong. 

Why God created teachers,
In His wisdom and His grace,
Was to help us learn to make our world
A better, wiser place.

Before School Starts-To Do List

Top 10 Must Do Items Before School Starts

1. Lesson Plans
Overplan! Overplan! Overplan! You can never go wrong when you have too many activities planned. It is so much easier to NOT DO an activity than it is to think of one on the spot!

2. Vary your Activities
Alternate a fun activity with a rules/procedures or other teacher activity. For example: introductions-name game-go over rules & personal expectations-teaming activity/game-class procedures-skits


3. Make Day of the Week Folders
Use manila folders and label each one in a different color with the day of the week. You could use colored manila folders. Laminate. Place lesson plans & materials for each day in folders.


4. Have Substitute Folder Ready
Include: procedures & detailed daily schedule, math practice sheet, journal topics, grade level team members' names & room numbers. Place this in the day of the week folder and add to it throughout the year.


5. Posters of Rules & Consequences
Laminate and hang where students can easily see them.


6. Poster with Daily Schedule written out
Laminate and hang where students can easily see it.


7. Get Important Student Forms
Office referral, Discipline, Counselor referral, other.


8. Organize files in filing cabinet
If you don't do this before school starts, you'll be swamped and never have time to do it.


9. Know what students are going to do with supplies
Have a procedure ready when they walk in the door-Keep? Stack in the corner? Take up?


10. Welcome notes for students
Write out the same note for every student and do not write student names on these. This will

save you time and trouble! You may want to include a pencil or piece of candy on the note.

Middle school teachers - type out the note with a cute font and copy on colored paper.

 

Source: http://www.inspiringteachers.com/classroom_resources/tips/beginning_of_the_school_year/10_must_do_items.html

Twas the Night Before School Started  

Author: unknown

Twas the night before school started
when all through the town
the parents were cheering
it was a riotous sound.

By eight the kids were washed
and tucked into bed
when memories of homework
filled them with dread.

New pencils, new folders, new notebooks too,
new teachers, new friends, the anxiety grew.
The parents just giggled when they heard of this fright
and shouted upstairs-GO TO BED-IT'S A SCHOOL NIGHT!