Mrs. Bell

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Welcome to Moody Elementary School Kindergarten

• Mrs. Bells class
• Room 113

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Welcome to MES! We are so glad to have you and
your child join our school. We are committed to
providing your child with a quality education
that will prepare him/her for a successful life.
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Moody Elementary Schools Mission
Our mission at Moody Elementary is to provide a
safe, caring, and academic environment where
lifelong learning is nurtured through a
partnership among students, parents, community
and staff.
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What to Expect in the Classroom
Educators no longer believe that all children
learn the same way, at the same time. Education
is an individual accomplishment. Research shows
that young children learn most effectively when
allowed to move around, investigate, make
choices, and use all of their physical senses to
explore, experiment and create. Todays learning
is real life, and hands on. Learning is louder
than in the past. The children are talking and
well as the teacher. Today instead of coloring
the letter A a child may locate the letter in
the room, create the a out of Play dough, or
draw the letter with glue and pour glitter on to
the glue. Instead of one worksheet after
another, the children are singing songs about
what they are learning or creating a real model
of the item they are solving. Learning is now
made fun. Look at your childs classroom.
Would you have enjoyed learning here?
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My name is Mrs. Bell About The Teacher This is
just to let you know a little about me. I am a
former Moody student. After leaving Moody High
school, I received B.S. in high school Education
from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. My
fields of study were biology and history. I
taught high school science for 6.5 years at St.
Clair Co. High School. I quit to stay home with
my own children in 1999. I returned to the
classroom in 2005 with a masters degree in
elementary education. I have been teaching at
Moody Elementary for nine years. My plans are to
stay at Moody because this is home and I love
teaching.
Mission For The Class My mission at Moody
Elementary School is to provide your child with a
safe, supportive, caring environment, where
children are encouraged to be risk takers in
their education. I hope to provide your child
with lifelong skills which develop a positive
self-image. My mission is to do these thing with
the help of the school, parent, child and
community.
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ARI and AMSTI
MES is an ARI school. This refers to our method
of teaching reading. ARI stands for Alabama
Reading Initiative. Reading will be taught for
ninety minutes a day. The children will receive
whole group instruction, small group instruction,
centers and mini-lessons. Our text is Harcourt,
StoryTown.
As of 2007 MES is an AMSTI School. Over eighty
percent of our teaching staff have been trained
in Alabama math, science and technology. This
program is one of the forerunners in the nation
in meeting growing needs of education within
these fields. Our new text is Go Math
Due to AMSTI, your child will have hands-on
math and science education. Your child will
learn how to solve a true problem instead of just
mathematical sentences on paper.
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Each day your child will receive education in the
area of Reading, writing, math , science and
social studies. Students will also be doing art
and learning computer within the classroom.
Alabama has suggested a hands on approach to
teaching and MES teachers have been trained in
this area. Your child may not bring home lots of
worksheets. Much of what we do will be hands on
or in journals that will come home at the end of
the study. Some journals will come home at the
end of school.
Your child will have a Writing journal Math
journal And several science journals. Some
teachers will also have a poetry journal.
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We will have lunch about 1015 each day.
Students are allowed to have visitors at lunch on
Fridays. Parents can meet us in the lunchroom at
lunch time. Please go to the office first.
Others can come and eat lunch with your child
with your permission. Everyone must check into
the office before entering the school.
Students will attend enrichment classes each day.
MES offers Music, Art, PE, Computer and Library
for our students. PE will be attended daily.
The other will be weekly classes.
Lunch Costs Daily -- check the hand book for new
prices Weekly- Monthlydepends on the month Ice
cream is sold once a month..
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Money
All money should be sent in an envelope. Send a
check or exact change. I can not make change and
the school does not make change. All money
should be sent in an envelope with your childs
name, the purpose of the money and the amount.
Add my name in case it gets lost before your
child get to class. Pin the envelop to your
child or put it in their folder. Please do not
tell your child to put it in my hand. It is
safer in their folder.
All money needs to be sent separately. Lunch in
one envelope, snack in one envelope, field trip,
etc. I do not open the money, I send it to its
place. (lunchroom, office, PTO)
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Your child will need a snack everyday. Snack is
between 1230-100. Cokes are not allowed as
snacks. Please send healthy snacks. Hold back
on the sugar. Sugar is hard on the teacher and
the kids. It makes learning difficult. It is
difficult to eat liquid foods. Please send a
small snack, it is not a meal. Children need to
be able to open most of their snack themselves.
Juice boxes or pouches are best for drinks. Open
mouth bottles spill very easily. We try to teach
children to be responsible, this means that they
will clean up their own mess.
Snacks can be purchase at school. Children must
be able to use the machines on their own. Only
healthy snacks are sold in the school machines.
School machines require a letter and a number to
be put in for vending.
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Behavior is a concern for all classrooms. I do
expect good behavior from all students. Students
will know the rules, they will be reading Bono
goes to school and discussing the book. WE will
have a chart that goes along with Bonos lessons.
Children will be on green for a good day! They
can improve and be better than average and have
their name put in the Bonos heroes jar. If a
child breaks the rules, his/her card changes
color. The color is determined by the offense. A
report is sent home each day. A code will be
filled out on the date to let you know how the
day went. Please sign this and send it back in
the folder each day.
Behaviors are explained in code on the chart.
These are school wide to unify our behavior plan!
We do take playtime away due to behavior. We do
not take away PE time or enrichment classes.
Students may also lose free center time on
Fridays.
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For parents Your child is a big kid!
School Starts at 745. Students leave the gym
at that time. I will
begin morning lesson at 750. All
Children must take care of their own
bathroom needs. Children need to tie their
own shoes. ( I tie until Christmas)
Children need to be able to use the
vending machines if you plan
to send money.
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At time it becomes necessary to send students
home early. Usually this is due to storms.
Before your leave today I need to know how to get
your child home if school should close early.
Please fill out the form and leave it with me.
Unless you change the procedure this is how I
will send your child home. When the school
closes I have to call every parent. This takes
time that I usually do not have. A better way is
for you to sign up for our weather alert on the
schools website and then e-mail me so that I know
that you are prepared.
dana.bell_at_sccboe.org Any changes made to the way
your child goes home must be in writing. I can
not change it by phone or e-mail. You can fax
the office or send a note with your child in the
morning. I will not take your childs word about
a bus or rider change. This is for all days not
just weather days.
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• I also need to know today, How to send your child
  home on the first day of school.
• Leave at 1130 first three days
• BusYou must provide me the bus number and the
  load.
• Car riders you must have the proper Identifying
  papers or an ID. We provide the first ID. You
  must Purchase additional.

I need to know how to send your child home daily.
I need to know how to feed your child the
first two days. Free lunch and reduced lunch
forms will be sent home soon.
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We will have special snacks and parties through
the year. Grandparents day Halloween
snack Thanksgiving meal Christmas party---send
a book for your child to open Easteran Ice cream
snack End of school. Any item sent for school
parties must be store bought.No homemade cakes,
cookies, etc. Parents may attend the Christmas
and End of the year party. We will have field
trips. Students must ride the bus. Parents can
follow the buses. Students must ride to and from
the trip on the bus. I cannot make exceptions.
This is a county rule. If you have a problem
with the above parties or trip please see me
later.
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Every teacher at Moody Elementary has a website.
On this site you will find weekly activities, a
calendar, home work etc. Please check this
weekly. All important information should be on
the site or at the schools site. I suggest that
you place both of these on your favorites. You
will need to visit them often. In the past, I
sent home weekly news---now all of that
information is online. You can find my web
site by going to Moodyelementartyschool.org and
click under faculty. Find my name and click.
Save it to your favorites or your desk top.
dana.bell_at_sccboe.org
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Questions?