Our Class Handbook

by the fifth graders

of Room 224

Graham & Parks School
2014-2015
Table of Contents

The Morning Routine..p. 1
Seating Arrangementsp. 2
Bookbagsp. 3
Rainbow Bins...p. 5
Morning Meeting...p. 6
The Stars....p. 7
The Take A Break Chair....p. 8
Jobsp. 9
Supplies..p. 11
Lining Up...p. 12
Transitions...p. 12
Hall Passesp. 13
Snackp. 13
No Snark Zonep. 14
The Scalep. 15
I Feel.p. 15
Equality vs. Justice...p. 16
Word Wall/Glossaryp. 17
How to Use the Library..p. 18
Planners/Reading Logs.p. 19
End of Day Routine..p. 20

The Morning Routine
By Karma & Shirin

When the bell rings its time for school, so head up to
class. The first thing you are going to do once you get to class,
is to hang up your bag. Once youve done that, if you have a
lunch from home, put it in the bin directly below the hooks.

After that, walk over to the sink, and either use hand
sanitizer, or soap and water to wash your hands (the soap
smells really good). The hand sanitizer lives next to the water
bottle bin. Next, if you have homework, take it out of your
folder, and put it in the blue bin, on the top rack, located on
the teachers desk.

Take your planner (the notebook with your reading
log), and place it open to your most recent reading log, on
your desk. Once you are at your desk, you will notice the blue,
purple, and yellow table bins. Check if your table has enough
materials for the day. If not, you can find the supplies you
need next to the blue cabinet with the yellow star.

Once you get to your desk, put your chair down, and
put your bookbag on the back. Then read the morning
message, which is located in the middle of the room, on the
whiteboard. Then, you may sit down, and read until the
second bell.





Seating Arrangements
By Alex

When you come in you will see that there are 5 tables,
you will be assigned a table.






You will have a bookbag on your chair with books.

The reason we have assigned seats is so you dont get
distracted and so you can focus. You are only allowed to sit at
the seat you are assigned to.
Bookbags
By Bethel & Isla

Sofia: Hey, Simon. Ive been wondering how to put my bag on
my chair. How do I do that?

Simon: Simon says make sure your chair is on the floor.

Sofia: Okay, sounds good!

Simon: Simon says great! Lets move on! Now look at your
bookbag, it should look like this:

Sofia: Yep. Mine looks like that!

Simon: Simon says now turn the top flap inside out. It looks
like this off the chair:








Sofia: I see it!

Simon: Simon says now put your bookbag on the chair it will
look like this:



Sofia: Are we done yet?

Simon: No. Now throw your bookbag on the floor.

Sofia: Are you sure? Okay?

Simon: Simon says jk! I didnt say Simon says!

Sofia: Anyway, if I do throw my bookbag on the floor, now I
know how to put my book bag on the chair. Thank you Simon.
Simon? Where are you?
Rainbow Bins
By Rose & Max

In our room, there is a shelf with 4 bins on Roses desk.
You use the bins for different reasons.

The blue bin is on the top. That is where you put
homework.

Next is the green bin. That bin is for finished work. If
you finish something in class, put it in the green bin.

The next bin is the yellow bin. That bin is for
unfinished work. If you are working on something in class and
you dont get it done, put it in the yellow bin.

Finally, the last bin is the red forms bin. That bin is for
forms that the teachers give you to bring home for your
parents to sign, like permission slips.

Those are the reasons for the bins.













Morning Meeting
By Isla & Bethel

Ring ring goes the bell,
School will start you can tell.

Come and sit on the rug,
Make yourself feel really snug.

This is our morning meeting,
We start with a greeting.

Now we have meditation,
Rose will read with enunciation.

It is time for yoga to start,
Now pick a pose from the charts.

Rose will tell us what to do,
Now listen up we are almost through.

Thank you for listening to our rhyme,
Sorry we are out of time!
The Stars
By Marcus

You may see stars around the class.

The stars are put on things only teachers can touch.

There is a star on Roses desk, some of the books, on
the smartboard.

There are 8 stars in our classroom.


This is what the star looks like.

Thats all about the stars.


















The Take A Break Chair
By Shirin & Karma

If youre doing something thats breaking the rule and
someone tells you to stop and you dont stop, the teacher will
give you a warning. If you dont stop even after the warning
you will have to go to the take a break station. The take a
break station is next to the second row of backpacks. There
you will find 2 stress balls, and I feel strips. At the desk the
teacher will tell you to stay there, till you calm down. The
teacher will decide when you can get up, so wait until she tells
you.

While youre calming down you can squeeze the stress
balls, you can rest your head on the desk, and you can think
about what you can do next time to prevent you from taking a
break.
Jobs
By Sherley, Daveigh & Ruvencia

In our classroom we have jobs. The jobs are:
- Librarian
There are five people who do the librarian job and they
all have a shelf to organize.
- Lunch Bin
There are two people that do lunch bin. Their job is to
take the lunch bin down to the cafeteria.
- Recycling
There are two people that do recycling. When the
recycling is full of trash they have to bring the recycling
bin downstairs to the big recycling bin.
- Passer-Outer
There are two passer-outers and they pass notebooks
and other things out that we need.
- Table Cleaner
There are two table cleaners and what they do is clean
the tables at the end of the day.
- Mailbox Handy Helper
There is one mailbox handy helper. What the mailbox
handy helper does is they put paper in our mailbox
that we need.
- Floor Cleaner
There is one floor cleaner. What the floor cleaner does
is he/she cleans the floor if its messy.











- Chair Helper
There is one chair helper. What the chair helper does is
puts up the chairs at the end of the day if people did
not put them up, and also puts up the extra chairs
around the room.
- Pencil Sharpener
There are two pencil sharpeners. What the pencil
sharpeners do is sharpen the pointless pencils at the
end of every day.
- Vacation Helper
There is one vacation helper. What the vacation helper
does is when someone is not here for the school day
the vacation helper takes their job.
Supplies
By Karma

Okay, so when you start the day, you will have to go
through the morning routine. And one of the steps is getting
the supplies for your table. Now where are those supplies?
you might ask. Glad you asked! Those supplies are in the black
cabinet right when you walk in. On the very top, there is the
pencil sharpener. (Warning! The pencil sharpener is not used
during the day!). There are also two boxes, and the mailboxes,
where you keep your folders. The boxes (the smallish blue
and white ones) have words on them. The white one says
sharpened pencils. The blue one says pointless pencils.
Now I think you can guess which kind of pencil goes in which
box, right? So we got that down.

On the second shelf, there are three bins. One has
markers, one has colored pencils, and one has crayons. Next to
the bins, there is a stack of buckets. When you are doing a
coloring project, you can grab a bucket for your table, and put
the coloring supplies you need into it. Be warned, there are
only enough buckets to have one at each table!

On the third shelf, there are three box thingies with
drawers, a basket with glue sticks, and a basket with scissors.
The first box thingie has pens, highlighters, and dry-erase
board materials. The second box thingie has tape, staples, and
paper clips. And the third box thingie has sticky notes, index
cards, and erasers.

The fourth shelf has paper refills for the big box thingie
next to the supplies that has drawers full of paper.


Lining Up
By Marcus

When we line up we do it in alphabetical order. But
every other day we do it in reverse. Before we go we take a
deep breath, and we are expected to be silent in the hallway
always. You have to stay behind the person in front of you.


Transitions
By Brennan and Max

We use transitions to get to so many places in the
school like gym, art, music, computer lab, library, auditorium,
room 225, bathrooms, water fountain, and much more! But,
there are little itty-bitty things you need to know to do. First is
line order. Organized by the first letter in your first name.
Stand facing the blue cabinet in line order. Basically, just take
a deep breath and stay in line. Btw NO JUMPING DOWN
STAIRS! (also a little strict) because you can trip. Thats all
for OUTSIDE the classroom.

Now INSIDE the room, Rose or Allison will play a song
and you have the length of the song to move around to whats
next. Say we were on the rug at the end of the day, and it was
time for the end of the day routine (learn more on page 20).
Rose/Allison will turn on a song and you can pack your stuff
but be done before the song is over. Thats all.
Hall Passes
By Ruvencia

We have three hall passes: girls pass, boys pass, and a
hallway pass. The passes are next to the door. If you have to
go to the bathroom or the water fountain, you get the pass and
put it around your neck like a necklace. When you come back,
take the pass off and put it back next to the door.


Snack
By Alex

When we have snack we will be doing chatting snack
or sometimes it will be a working snack. We have snack at
10:30. If you are having class snack you grab a paper towel
and wait for snack. There is no trading snacks or giving snack.
If you have your own snack you take it out and make sure it is
a nut-free food. No Nuts. Snack is 5-10 minutes long.













No Snark Zone
By Ashraf, Nathaniel & Tahmid

So Hello, when you enter this room you cant be snarky.
What it means is you cant be sarcastic in a mean way. For
example in the book Wonder, Auggie the main character has a
deformed face and a kid named Julian said Is your favorite
Star Wars character Darth Sidious? because Darths face got
deformed. You couldnt say something like that in our room!
Another word for snarky is obnoxious. You dont want to be
annoying or rude here.

The Scale
By Tahmid

If you see a scale above the white board, that is our
individual/community needs scale. An individual is one
person. A community is a bunch of people. Individual needs
are what one person needs, for example some people might
have bad handwriting, so they need a keyboard. Or one person
might need or want a certain book to read.

But if one person wants the same book as someone
else, they should put that book back and share. The
community needs to have books for everyone. We have to
balance what the individual needs with what everyone needs.

I Feel
By Shirin & Isla

When you tease me, I feel scared, because you yell
loudly, so what I would like is for you to stop yelling.

That was an I feel sentence. You write this when you
have trouble with friends and classmates and you feel upset
with them or you dont like something they are doing.

After you write the I feel sentence, the person you
wrote it to can do an I feel sentence back if they feel like they
dont like something youre doing.

I feel sentences are helpful if youre in a conflict with
another child.
Equality vs. Justice
By Isla & Shirin

In our classroom, we have a rule which is shown in this
picture:



It shows equality vs. justice. In our class, we believe in
justice because sometimes equality isnt fair. For example, in
the picture, there are three people: a tall person, a medium
person, and a shorter person. In the first picture, each person
has 1 box to stand on, but the shorter person cant see the
game. The shorter person needs more boxes.

People in our class need different things to help them
learn and succeed.

Word Wall/Glossary
By Nathaniel, Ashraf & Tahmid

Hello,
Im going to teach you about the word wall/glossary.
Do you know where the hooks are? On that wall there are
these words from our glossary. We call that a word wall. A
word wall is a wall with interesting words from the book
were reading, Wonder. The words are parts of speech like:
noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Well thats all about the
glossary. Also check No Snark Zone and Planner/Reading Log.

Nouns Adverbs Verbs Adjectives
Lion Quickly Ran Swanky
Scepter Slowly Pooping Mechanical
book Late Shooting Poisonous
Lizard supposedly Jogged Spiky
Sam well struck liquid

How to Use the Library
By Max & Brennan

There are many sections of our library: fiction, classics,
sci-fi/fantasy, sports fiction, mysteries, historical fiction,
religion/holidays, sports (non-fiction) facts, inventions and
experiments, places, amazing true stories, graphic novels,
government and symbols, robots, human body, underwater
animals, land animals, plants, natural environment, field
guides, and more!

In order for you to use the library, you need to follow
some instructions. First, on your seat is a bookbag (read more
on page 3). You can take books from the library and put them
in your bookbag until youre done with them. When youre
done, put them in the returned book bin. And only take 3
books at a time from the library!

Planners/Reading Logs
By Tahmid, Nathaniel & Ashraf

In room 224 we have planners. The way they work is
that you write and record your homework on todays date.
You have to read for 30 minutes per day at least. You write the
book title, the amount of pages you read, the amount of
minutes you read, and the connection or statement, and your
parents will have to sign it on the bottom. This is what you do
in your planner every day, its basically the same as a reading
log but also a planner.
End of Day Routine
By Brennan & Max

At the end of the day, you need to follow a list of
instructions written on the wall next to the backpack rack.
First thing to do is go to the mailboxes next to the blue cabinet
and take out your folder, and forms.

Next, get your bag off the hooks and get your planner
(which will be at your desk or in your hand), put your planner
and folder in your bag. But make sure your homework has
been copied down first in your planner!

Then, go to your seat and take your bookbag (learn
more on page 3) off your seat and put your chair up on your
desk with the bookbag (with your name showing) on the top
of the chair.

Then you get your lunch and you know, put it in your
bag, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then you can take an independent
reading book and take it home.