Welcome Parents

Dear Parents

WELCOME TO THIRD GRADE, and to Meadowmere Elementary School! My name is Mrs. Andrea Abuyo and I am THRILLED to be your child's teacher this year! I am looking forward to a productive and prosperous year together!

A few things you might want to know about my classroom…
I welcome you all into my room this year. I feel that parent involvement and communication are extremely vital to the teaching of children. I welcome you during numerous learning activities and will write home asking for volunteers. In addition, I would love your company during field trips and class parties.

This year, your child will be working on responsibility and organization. I expect papers to be neatly organized in "mini-offices" and have provided each child with a Meadowmere Folder for organizing homework. I expect clean desks and neat work. I expect children to go the extra mile, and give me more than minimal work. (They're going to love me!!!) Please help me by reinforcing these skills at home.

Each night, your child will bring home a nightly Meadowmere Folder Inside the folder will be homework, flyers, and my behavioral plan (on Fridays) for the students, which I will further explain. Coming back will be finished homework, any notes to be delivered to me, and the signed behavioral plan (on Mondays). Make sure to check each night for notes from me. Remember that a mandatory “change of dismissal note” is required each day your child will deviate from his/her regular dismissal routine. Please send the folder back to school each day. This should be your child’s responsibility, but you might have to help out a bit in the beginning to establish a routine.

Also, each week a homework packet will be sent home. There will be Spelling, Math, Reading, and Writing assignments inside this packet. Because I develop homework based on lessons in class, the content will change from week to week. Homework will be a review of the lessons that children do that day, so nothing is “new”. All homework is due by Friday morning. Students are welcome to turn it in as they accomplish their work, or they may wait to turn it all in at once Friday morning. Students WILL NOT be allowed to call home for forgotten assignments.

School rules are vital to a successful, positive learning environment. Rules are necessary to provide for the health and safety of all students and ensure fair treatment to all. The following rules are not only used in my classroom, they are used building wide.

Use kind words and actions

Follow directions

Be an active learner

Use self-control

The behavioral plan in my classroom is based on the Responsive Classroom approach. A responsive classroom teaches students to be responsible for their actions and to reflect on what they did wrong so that it won't happen again. Instead of being "punished", students will be more reflective on their behavior and how to change it. The first consequence is to "Take a Break". It's an area in the back of the room, away from everyone, where the child goes to get away from whatever is distracting him/her and causing him/her to act inappropriately. The second step is "Think Time", where the child will go to a classroom across the hall, to take a break from the classroom environment, as well as to write up a reflection that will be sent home that evening for the parents to sign. Finally, if the behavior does not change, I will send the child to the principal's office. Each day, students will log their behavior on a chart, which gets sent home to be signed on Fridays and returned to me Monday morning.

Of course, positive reinforcement is even more important. Your children will experience such things as tokens, Homework-opoly, Compliment Parties, and Table Behavior Competitions. The Mathemagician club is designed for those students that excel on the Common Assessments at the end of each math unit.

Check out my website weekly (http://ms-abuboo.com) as I update it quite frequently. My website and email are my main source of communication. I have everything on here from classroom procedures to homework assignments, to important dates to remember. Please familiarize yourself with it, and use this as a tool to bridge the communication between school and home.

If you wish to contact me by email please do so at andrea.abuyo@csd4.k12.mo.us. I am really looking forward to being your child’s third grade teacher! This is going to be a wonderful year!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Abuyo

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact either through the school or through your child.

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Welcome to Mrs. Abuyo's 3rd Grade Class!

Welcome Parents