Hi Families,
Thank you for visiting my website. I appreciate your time.
My name is Jean Gallagher and I will be your child’s 4th grade teacher for the current school year. I will teach ELA, math, science, and social studies to your child. I, too, am a Mullica resident and both of my daughters went through the Mullica school system. It was a wonderful experience for my children and I will work to the best of my abilities to ensure that our classroom will be a wonderful experience for your child as well.
I am excited to spend my days with your children and am looking forward to partnering with each of you throughout the year to make this the best possible learning experience for your children.
About our class: We aim to be a respectful community where our main job is learning to the best of our ability while following the Coyote Calling in everything we do!
Once a Week-Wednesday Folders- Any assessments (tests/quizzes), schoolwork, or other important notices will be sent home on Wednesdays. Please check this folder each week, initial inside the folder, and return any papers that need to be returned. The folder should always be returned the next day.
Take home folders are to be brought home each night. Most important work will be sent home on Wednesdays. This folder will allow your child to bring home work that either doesn't need your immediate attention OR something that needs your attention and can't wait until the next Wednesday. If there is something in the nightly folder that needs your attention, your child will either write it in their Agenda Book or I will send a Dojo message about it.
Planners/Agenda books are also to be brought home each night. Students' homework is recorded as well as any other important events. Please check their agenda books often.
Thank you for visiting my website. I appreciate your time.
My name is Jean Gallagher and I will be your child’s 4th grade teacher for the current school year. I will teach ELA, math, science, and social studies to your child. I, too, am a Mullica resident and both of my daughters went through the Mullica school system. It was a wonderful experience for my children and I will work to the best of my abilities to ensure that our classroom will be a wonderful experience for your child as well.
I am excited to spend my days with your children and am looking forward to partnering with each of you throughout the year to make this the best possible learning experience for your children.
About our class: We aim to be a respectful community where our main job is learning to the best of our ability while following the Coyote Calling in everything we do!
Once a Week-Wednesday Folders- Any assessments (tests/quizzes), schoolwork, or other important notices will be sent home on Wednesdays. Please check this folder each week, initial inside the folder, and return any papers that need to be returned. The folder should always be returned the next day.
Take home folders are to be brought home each night. Most important work will be sent home on Wednesdays. This folder will allow your child to bring home work that either doesn't need your immediate attention OR something that needs your attention and can't wait until the next Wednesday. If there is something in the nightly folder that needs your attention, your child will either write it in their Agenda Book or I will send a Dojo message about it.
Planners/Agenda books are also to be brought home each night. Students' homework is recorded as well as any other important events. Please check their agenda books often.
How Can Parents Help?
Here's my philosophy on parental involvement...
The more we work together as a team, the better your child's educational experience will be.
Here are some things that are critical for your child's success...
* If you have a question, concern, problem, etc., please let me know so that I can address it in a timely manner. You can send a note in to school or you can email me at school ([email protected] ). I check my email and Class Dojo messages throughout the day and can usually respond to you during either my lunchtime or my planning time. PLEASE NOTE I do not check these messages during instructional time.
* Make sure your child comes to school well-rested, prepared and on time everyday.
* Please respect our school hours and note that our homeroom period begins promptly at 8:40. If your child arrives after 8:40, they will be marked as "late". Your child is learning at every moment throughout the day - that is my job. Often a parent will ask me whether their child will "miss anything" if the child comes in late, leaves early, takes a vacation, etc. My answer is always "YES". I am not unreasonable and my own children, on rare occasions, missed school. I just ask that you be judicious when deciding whether your child should miss school for reasons other than illness.
If your child will be leaving school early, please let me know and I can have them ready for you when you arrive. When children are called to the office without advance notice, the time it takes to pack them up takes away from the teaching/learning time for all the other children in our class.
* Go through your child's book bag and folder EVERY night.
* READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, and READ!!! Turn off the television and video games and expect your child to read every night. I know our lives are hectic but this is a wonderful age and it goes by in a blink of an eye. Enjoy the time with your child. Take your child to the public library. Checking out books at the library is free and earth-friendly - what more could you ask for?
The more we work together as a team, the better your child's educational experience will be.
Here are some things that are critical for your child's success...
* If you have a question, concern, problem, etc., please let me know so that I can address it in a timely manner. You can send a note in to school or you can email me at school ([email protected] ). I check my email and Class Dojo messages throughout the day and can usually respond to you during either my lunchtime or my planning time. PLEASE NOTE I do not check these messages during instructional time.
* Make sure your child comes to school well-rested, prepared and on time everyday.
* Please respect our school hours and note that our homeroom period begins promptly at 8:40. If your child arrives after 8:40, they will be marked as "late". Your child is learning at every moment throughout the day - that is my job. Often a parent will ask me whether their child will "miss anything" if the child comes in late, leaves early, takes a vacation, etc. My answer is always "YES". I am not unreasonable and my own children, on rare occasions, missed school. I just ask that you be judicious when deciding whether your child should miss school for reasons other than illness.
If your child will be leaving school early, please let me know and I can have them ready for you when you arrive. When children are called to the office without advance notice, the time it takes to pack them up takes away from the teaching/learning time for all the other children in our class.
* Go through your child's book bag and folder EVERY night.
* READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, READ, and READ!!! Turn off the television and video games and expect your child to read every night. I know our lives are hectic but this is a wonderful age and it goes by in a blink of an eye. Enjoy the time with your child. Take your child to the public library. Checking out books at the library is free and earth-friendly - what more could you ask for?
* Let your child see you as a reader. Read books, magazines, newspapers, etc. Find little opportunities to point out to them how you use reading in your daily life and ask them to help, if appropriate (recipes, instructions to games, directions to assembling something, directions and cautionary statements on household products, etc.). Reading is important in ALL subjects.
* Encourage your child to write and write often - letters to relatives, thank you cards for gifts, lists, personal journals. Writing is important in ALL subjects.
* Believe that MATH can be fun!!! - I absolutely LOVE math and part of fostering a love of math in our young children is helping them see its connection to our everyday lives and HELPING YOUR CHILD BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN BE SUCCESSFUL AT MATH! Please know that we may teach your child multiple methods for understanding math and some will likely differ from the way that you learned as a child. Respect these varying methods and be careful how your feelings are communicated to your child. You are incredibly influential upon your child and it is very difficult to teach a concept to a child when they believe that their parent questions its validity.
* Encourage your child to write and write often - letters to relatives, thank you cards for gifts, lists, personal journals. Writing is important in ALL subjects.
* Believe that MATH can be fun!!! - I absolutely LOVE math and part of fostering a love of math in our young children is helping them see its connection to our everyday lives and HELPING YOUR CHILD BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN BE SUCCESSFUL AT MATH! Please know that we may teach your child multiple methods for understanding math and some will likely differ from the way that you learned as a child. Respect these varying methods and be careful how your feelings are communicated to your child. You are incredibly influential upon your child and it is very difficult to teach a concept to a child when they believe that their parent questions its validity.
* Foster responsibility. Teach your child to be responsible for their actions and to take pride in all they do.
* Volunteer at OUR school &/or within our community. This will let your child know how much you value this wonderful school and town and that you play a role in contributing to their success. There are so many opportunities to volunteer and these opportunities can fit anyone's schedule/talents. The PTA does amazing things for our school and is ALWAYS looking for parent/grandparent/neighbor volunteers. You can volunteer with Mullica's Recreation Association, you can run for our school board, you can attend town hall meetings, you can assist with our school garden, etc. If you want to volunteer but don't know how to get started, please ask me. I can point you in the right direction.
* Know that we are all (as a school and as a community) in this together. We all depend upon the success of the next generation. We will, certainly, not always agree. But we can agree to respect one another's points of views, feelings, beliefs, privacy, and individual diversities. We can agree to address specific issues, not vague generalities. We can agree to be role models our children will look up to with respect and admiration.
* Volunteer at OUR school &/or within our community. This will let your child know how much you value this wonderful school and town and that you play a role in contributing to their success. There are so many opportunities to volunteer and these opportunities can fit anyone's schedule/talents. The PTA does amazing things for our school and is ALWAYS looking for parent/grandparent/neighbor volunteers. You can volunteer with Mullica's Recreation Association, you can run for our school board, you can attend town hall meetings, you can assist with our school garden, etc. If you want to volunteer but don't know how to get started, please ask me. I can point you in the right direction.
* Know that we are all (as a school and as a community) in this together. We all depend upon the success of the next generation. We will, certainly, not always agree. But we can agree to respect one another's points of views, feelings, beliefs, privacy, and individual diversities. We can agree to address specific issues, not vague generalities. We can agree to be role models our children will look up to with respect and admiration.