6th Grade Organization/Homework Support Guidelines

These guidelines apply to the entire 6th grade curriculum. You should have received them from Morgan already, but I thought it would be helpful to have them up here, too:

• Teacher signs assignment book every afternoon to ensure that all assignments are written down; student is responsible for approaching teachers (including substitute teachers)*
• Family/Student will have a specific hour that homework get started every night (example: 6pm after extracurricular activity)
• Homework gets done at a specific desk/table every night
• When homework is completed, it is shown to family and they sign the assignment book ensuring that all homework was completed.
• Family helps to clean out homework folder and transfer any graded work to binder so only homework that needs to be turned in is in the folder
• Homework folder and binders are put in backpack by the door ready to go in the morning. Family verifies that Homework folder is in backpack.
• Calendar with long term projects posted near homework desk
• Family and students break down long-term projects into smaller tasks and mini-deadlines.
• Family helps to monitor progression of project and check off tasks on calendar as they are completed.

*If teacher signature is not obtained, family/student will check homework website or call classmates

If you have any questions about organization/home support, please feel free to contact Morgan @ mlcostanzo@windrush.org

Be careful where/how you comment

Ladies and Gentlemen, please be careful about which post you are writing a comment for. A lot of homework responses are ending up at the bottoms of other, unrelated posts. I will start moving them to their correct locations but if you want to make sure you get credit for your comments being posted on time, it’s best if I don’t have to hunt for them all over the blog.

Also, though your new nickname may be well-recognized by your classmates, I may not know to whom to give credit when a post is made by “pee wee” or “tink.” Therefore, please also include your first name (remember, no last names!) in addition to any nicknames/handles/usernames you are using.