Junior West: Policy Overview
| | Healthy Breakfast
- Jump starts brain and body
- Aids in concentration and learning
Drop Off
- Pull up and drop off at front doors
- Class STARTS promptly at 8:00 a.m., children are expected to be here by 7:50 a.m.
- New tardy policy: 5 tardies=1 absence
- Michigan Law allows the maximum of 10 absences per academic year; more could result in level retention.
Shoes
- Indoor - slippers or comfortable shoe
- Outdoor
- Weather appropriate
- Comfortable/safe for running, climbing, jumping…
Complete Extra Set of Clothes
- Weather appropriate
- Keep at school and replenish when needed
Book Bags
- A character-free bag to carry belongings in (see handbook)
- Bring daily
Lunch
- 11:15 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- Character-free lunch boxes (see handbook)
Morning Snack
- Schedule provided
- Nutritious snacks such as: bags of fruit, veggies, granola, whole grain crackers, cheese, and yogurt…
Reading Schedule
- See Handout
- Literature groups will be formed in the coming weeks
Spelling
- Second and Third Years begin right away
- Test on Fridays
Take Home Folders
- All children have one
- Only students in reading program will have a red folder inside; other children will use it for Literature Group
Schedule of the Day
- 7:50 a.m. -children in room, preparing for morning work
- 8:00 a.m.- morning work cycle promptly begins
- Lesson presentations and work
- Reading program
- 11:15-11:50 a.m.-Lunch
- 12:00 p.m. -Physical Education
- 1:00 p.m.- Foreign Language
- 1:45 p.m.
- First years: lessons in room
- Second years: M/W-art, T/TH-music
- Third years: M/W-music, T/TH- art
- 2:30 p.m.
- First years: M/W-art, T/TH-music
- Second/third years: in class working on spelling & silent reading
- 3:00 p.m.- jobs/read aloud
- 3:30 p.m.- dismissal
- If scheduling outside appointments, please attempt to make them after school.
Things to Return to School
- Hurtful and Harmful Behavior policy and Computer Ethics-signed by child and parent
- Foreign Language- French or Spanish (First year families please email preference as soon as possible)
Contact Information
- If you need to discuss something with me, please set up a meeting for after school. Email is the best form of contact and I will respond as soon as possible.
Anya McCormick
amccormick@meadowmontessori.org