Lakewood Expectations

What good citizens of Lakewood Elementary know

Caring

Caring is watching others and learning how your choices affect them

Cooperation

Cooperation involves sharing a goal with someone and helping them reach it with your encouragement

Responsibility

Responsibility is fulfilled by taking on the ownership of your part in making something a success

Respect

Respect is to listen to what others say and to let them know you consider what they have to say is of value

Acceptance

Acceptance involves welcoming others including all the ways they may be different from us and treating others as having an equal share in the world

Trustworthiness

Trustworthiness is achieved by doing what you say you will and letting someone know if anything changes that might keep you from fulfilling your promise

Basic Lakewood Training

Respect and how to earn it Safety is the responsibility of all of us Responsibility means doing what is expected Trust is the basis of safety and good relationships Honesty – Telling the truth is a big part of trust Reliability – The practical trust when make a promise Honor – Pride in behaving with respect & compassion Integrity is following what you believe to be right even

when it means saying “no” to your friends

Bus Assignments

Bus Colors rather than numbers Red, Yellow, Pink, Green, Brown, Grey, Blue,

Orange, Purple

Riding the Bus -

Wait patiently at the bus stop Get on the bus safely by taking turns Find a seat quickly and stay in it Call on the Bus Patrol or Driver for help

Arriving at School

Arriving at school – Kindergarten, First and Second Graders go to the Gym

Third, Fourth and Fifth Graders go to the Upstairs Hallway outside their classrooms

Morning Announcements

Fifth Graders lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance

After that, they will tell us who is celebrating their birthday today

And tell us what is for lunch in the cafeteria

Lakewood’s “Eagle Pledge”

They will also lead us in reciting our pledge

What if there’s a fire?

If the fire alarm goes off, we line up silently and walk in an orderly line and follow our teacher out of the building to the Bus Circle area

We take attendance again and make certain that everyone is out of the building and safe

We practice this several times during the year

Other Emergencies – Shelter

Instruction continues while students and staff stay in their rooms. This keeps hallways clear.

Other Emergencies – Lockdown

This is reserved for urgent threats and requires silence.

Lunch Choices

Did you bring your lunch from home?

[Or did you forget it somewhere?No matter, we will talk about that too]

To order lunch you must pick from the “main choice” or the “alternate” selection. You will make your choice first thing in the morning and let your teacher know which one you want.

If you need a special diet tell your teacher.

“I don’t have a lunch!”

We expect everyone at our school needs some food to keep healthy! So everyone will get a lunch.

We may be able to reach your parents to bring a lunch that was left at home or in a car.

Or, the cafeteria has extra food for such an emergency. You may not have many choices. But, we will see that you get something to eat.

Once you have chosen Lunch

Extra Lunches - Sometimes the cafeteria has a few extra lunches available. If you are still hungry, you may ask for another lunch.

Lunch orders – Because everyone makes a lunch choice in the morning, and that’s what the kitchen prepares, it is your responsibility to:

REMEMBER what you ordered and ONLY TAKE what you ordered!

Child-proof Food Containers

If your parent packs your lunch in containers you cannot open, let your parent know you may need a different kind of package.

Staff can try to help you open some of them. It is best if you know you can manage your own food.

All food and drink must be in plastic containers or juice packs. Metal cans and glass containers must stay home

Paying for your lunch

At cash register you will enter your cafeteria code. Be sure and memorize this. If you forget it the manager may be able to look it up.

Say your name out loud and clearly so the cafeteria manager can make certain the meal or milk is charged to your account.

If you are running out of money in your account, the manager will warn you to bring money from home. After that a letter is sent home to let your parents know your account is low.

Extra Milk

Extra Milk – If you order lunch it includes milk. If you want more milk you may go back and buy more. Those who brought their lunch may also go buy milk to drink with their lunch.

Lunchroom Expectations

Allergies and food sharing – Some children are allergic to certain foods and some can react so strongly that they have to go to the hospital. So we ask you not to share food at any time in school.

Hats off – If you bring a hat or sunglasses to wear at recess, keep them in your lap or pocket. Hats and sun-glasses are for outside.

To leave the lunchroom – Raise your hand and ask permission to leave the lunchroom. You must have permission from someone in the lunchroom, or a permission slip signed by one of your teachers. The only places you can ask to go are to get a drink, use the bathroom, or go to the nurse.

Once we start clean-up, drink & bathroom requests are cancelled.

Cleaning up Lunch tables

Cleaning up means to throw away and trash, dispose of milk and juice packs in their special containers. Make certain you pick up your trash, as well as trash you find on your table or on the floor around you. Whether it is “your” trash or not, it must be put in the trash.

More Lunchroom Expectations

You are to sit anywhere at your class table. There are no “saved” seats.

If seating gets crowded we limit it to 8 students on each side of the full length (double) table

Walk whenever you are inside Lakewood School Running is an activity for recess Sit at the lunch table and remain seated during lunch. Raise your hand to ask staff for permission to move

around Silence is expected any time an adult gives the “quiet”

sign or asks for quiet

Bathroom & Lunch

Requests to go to the bathroom are welcome. However, once everyone begins to clean up to go to recess, you must wait till you get to the next activity to ask to go.

Lunchroom Temptation

Playing with the bars between the tables: The lunch tables have a bar in the middle which makes a sound that all the staff are familiar with. We know it because some children who have played with it have been hurt. Let it be.

Keep your food with you at all times – No one needs to touch your food and you should keep your hands away from someone else's lunch.

Spills

What do I do if I spill something? If it is a small area on the table ask to get paper towels and clean it up yourself. If it is a spill on the floor let the staff know we need more than a paper towel.

What do I do if I spill something all over my clothes? The school nurse keeps some clean clothes in different sizes. You may be able to borrow from her and then return them clean the next day

Voices and walking in line

Out-door voices are for use out-side In-door voices are welcome in the lunchroom How do I walk through the halls in a single-file line?

Face the back of the person in front of you and follow directly in his or her footsteps. Stop when he or she stops; go when he or she starts to walk again.

Butting in line – When we take turns and line up without pushing our way to the front, we are showing the kind of teamwork and respect that we are proud of at Lakewood. When someone butts into line they are insulting all their classmates as if to say: “I am better than all of you.” You may need extra practice at showing respect.

Time to clean up

You may be called by grade or by tables to clean up

Clean off tables, sit down, and listen quietly for your call to line up

Recycling

Empty Milk Bottles Lunch trays ---------------

Black Food Trays

Trash

Announcements at lunch

If there are students who are staying in with their teachers for recess their names will be called

Special activities or patrol meetings may be announced If we have indoor recess, all students, including lunch-

helpers, will stay seated until their teacher comes to take them to their classrooms

Once everything is clean, staff will call lunch-helpers to leave and that is when others who are staying in for recess can also leave to go to their classrooms

Once you are seated quietly at your table you may be called to line up to go to inside or outside recess

Three kinds of Recess

Playground – When the weather is nice and the ground is dry we can have recess on the playground

Bus Circle – When the playground is wet or icy, and it is not too cold, and not raining, we can go outside to the Bus Circle

In-Doors – When it is raining or the temperature is below freezing, we stay inside and play games and work in the classrooms

Recess – On the Playground

The area where you are to play

Equipment which you can play on and balls you can play with

The area of the “Playground”

While we do not have a map of the area of the playground, at the beginning of the year we paint a line around where students are allowed to play

Equipment for play

Primarily this is a variety of balls which everyone is expected to share

Occasionally we will have Hula Hoops or foam frisbees

The wall of Lost and Found

Before recess – A nice clean area leading to the playground

The Wall of Lost and Found

You might discover the weather is not as cold as you expected. You may want to take off a hat or jacket or maybe gloves. The most convenient spot seems to be at the wall by the door to the building.

When you drop them by the wall, - YOU MUST REMEMBER TO PICK THEM UP WHEN YOU LEAVE!

While someone might pick it up and keep it, someone else might take it to the area we call “Lost and Found.”

No one at Lakewood is paid to collect your pieces of clothing and keep them safe. If someone is nice enough to do that, you may be able to get it back.

Lost and Found

Outside the library In the office

If something looks valuable, like a necklace, eye-glasses, or a watch, Mrs. Melis will kindly keep it in the office. She will not look for the owner. If you have lost something small like that, you may ask Mrs. Melis if she has it.

Avoid These

Places to avoid and warn friends about: Play equipment tunnels

The top of the tunnels on the play equipment are slippery and you can fall far to the ground. It is a good idea to avoid climbing on these

The Ball-field

The ball field is NOT part of the playground. So be sure to stay outside the batting fence back-stop area

At special times we may open the ball field for games

Avoiding the Ramp

Some students get bored and start digging in the dirt. This is a problem for two reasons: First they probably use STICKS to dig with. Second, they dig up ROCKS.

We have a nice, safe, area of climbing bars which have soft ground in case you fall. Stay off the bars on the ramp. Those bars are over hard concrete. Best of all, avoid the ramp completely!

Stick and Rock Magnetism

You do not need rocks and sticks to enjoy recess

However! It looks like there is a kind of magnetism that flows between a student’s hand and nearby rocks and sticks

It is an important part of your education here that you learn to choose “not to pick it up”

Leave all rocks, sticks, pinecones where

you find them

Leave these “magnets” alone

Sticks and Rocks –These two things are not very popular with the school nurse, staff, and parents who have to come pick their child up at school to take them to the emergency room.

RESIST THE TEMPTATION!

And help your friends by reminding them to “leave them on the ground.”

Help save our trees

There are some young trees and plants around the playground. Some are healthier than others.

Please resist the temptation to pull leaves or branches off the trees in the playground. Some students in previous years have killed a number of young trees over by the fence

What happens at recess:

The staff on the playground are watching out to keep you safe, and watching the time so you don’t miss time with your teachers.

Alert Whistle – If you hear a short, loud, blow of a whistle, look in the direction of the sound and make certain you are not the one being called.

End of recess (Bell or Whistle) – If you hear a couple of long blows of a whistle, it is time for your class to line up and wait for your teachers to come take you back to class. Once the whistle has blown there are no more requests to get a drink or go to the bathroom or go to the nurse. Ask your teacher once you return to class.

I need a drink of water

Requests for trips to the bathroom and to get a drink of water: Make certain that a staff member knows where you are going. Also let them know after you return.

Even though this may seem to take a lot of time, if there were an emergency, we want to know where to find you to make sure you are safe.

When recess is over

You will hear a long blow on a whistle to let you know it is time to line up

Your teacher will come Join you and take you to your class

Going to the Nurse

If you, or one of the other children on the playground, appears hurt, let a staff member know right away.

Let the staff member decide whether the student needs to go to the nurse.

Recess- Bus Circle

The Bus Arrival area is right outside the Cafeteria.

All students are expected to stay in the bus area

On some days a bus may have to come in to drop off students. Teachers will signal students to move onto the curb until the bus

has left.

Getting to indoor recess

When lunch is over and we have cleaned up the tables and floor, your teachers will take you back to your classrooms for indoor recess.

In this case the “Lunch Helpers” will wait and go back to their classrooms with the rest of the class.

In-Door Recess – In the classrooms

When you get back to your classroom you will be supervised by one of the lunch staff you would usually see outside.

You may play board-games, cards, read a book, and draw.

You may get permission to use the computer to work on your school work or homework

In-door Recess Options

The area for recess is your class-room. The staff may allow students to join others in adjoining classrooms. This choice will be up to the staff member on duty.

Requests to use the bathroom or to get a drink of water are handled the same as on the playground and blacktop.

Noise and In-door recess

Noise is sometimes an issue for indoor recess. Some class rooms connect with other grades who are in the middle of instruction or perhaps testing. Students have to keep noise levels down so we can have fun without bothering others.

The hallways are not part of the indoor recess area. However, in special cases, staff may let a small group of students work quietly on a project in the hallway. This is a special privilege and students have to take special care not to disturb others.

Bathroom Use

Use the bathroom properly Wash and dry your hands afterward Throw the paper towels away Leave it clean If you discover a problem let a staff member

know right away

Returning to class after recess

Your teacher will come meet your class at the playground or bus circle

They will lead you back to class

What happens at dismissal?

First your teacher will tell you to gather your things and get ready to leave

Next you may hear a couple of announcements – And eventually a call for “All Walkers” to come down and leave the building.

A little later there will be a call for all students who are being picked up by car, “Car-Riders,” to go down to the main hallway. Your teacher will dismiss them.

After the Car-Riders have left, you will wait quietly for your bus to be announced.

How you will leave on your bus

Kindergarten will be picked up in their classroom by their bus patrols.

Other grades will wait in their classrooms until each bus is announced and it is ready for everyone to go get on. They usually call three times to make certain everyone hears and no one misses their bus. The teacher will dismiss those riding each bus as it is called.

What if I miss my bus?

It doesn’t happen very often. If it happens we call your family and have them come pick you up at the school as soon as they can.

Even more rare is the case where a parent is not at the bus stop to meet a student. In this case the bus driver will try and call while still at the stop. If this does not work the driver will keep the student safe and return to school. While the bus is on the way back to school, the staff contact the parents to arrange for them to come to school to pickup the student.

At the Library

Things to remember

Learning your computer Login

Memorizing your Lakewood Username and Password

What might we ask you?

Where are you supposed to be?What should you be doing?

You can ask yourself:Where am I supposed to be?What should I be doing?

Shutting off Computers

Shutdown, or Log Off, or Turning off the screen

School Pictures

A photographer will take a picture of you A photographer will take a picture of your

class Your parents can order copies of the pictures If you are absent that day there may be a

day they will come back to try and take yours Your class will go down as a group and you

will each have your picture taken

If someone gets sick in the classroom

The teacher will see that that person goes to the nurse right away

The teacher will probably take the class out to the hallway while Building Service people come clean up.

Try to stay calm and keep from saying anything which might hurt the sick person’s feelings.

Glossary 2

SOS LSA Patrols Bus rider of the week Car rider of the week Walker of the week Birthday Pencils Attendance Folders Lunch Count

What do Patrols do?

Patrols are fifth graders who have been selected to guide younger students and show them how to be safe

They watch for students who know what’s expected at Lakewood – These children are picked as “Star-Walker” “Star-Bus-Rider” and so on.

If they see a problem they will write a report and tell Mr. Thomson so that person can get help to learn what is expected.

Ways adults ask for silence

Clapping Hand-signs “Show me listening” “If you can hear me touch your head…” A whistle The adults should never have to shout

Traffic in the front hall - Dismissal

Parents will wait for you outside – when you stop to greet them by the front door you block others from leaving.

On cold days, if you have forgotten to put on your coat, you will be asked to step to the side to put it on before you leave