GOALS:

• Students will actively participate and contribute to classroom discussions and discoveries.

• Students will improve their skills and develop a better understanding of concepts.

• Students will gain habits and a disposition that will help him/ her analyze their work and effectively reason using academic processes.

• Students will consider their questions and attempt to find their own solutions.

EXPECTATIONS:

• Each student respects every other member of the classroom, including all other students and the teacher.

• Each student puts forth her/ his best effort in everything we do in class.

• Each student takes healthy risks to push his/ her learning forward and helps make the classroom a safe environment for taking such risks.

• Parents/ guardians strengthen our classroom through active engagement at home and open communication with the teacher.

TOOLS FOR LEARNING, please bring every day:

• Two sharpened pencils with erasers

• Plenty of notebook paper

• Completed assignments

• Your laptop (charged!)