Art Room Procedures

Ms. Ekdom - Reed City Middle School

Classroom Expectations - OVERVIEW

• We will be creating a Social Contract Later this week
• Do What is Right
• Do Your Best
• Treat Others the Way You Want to be treated

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Seating Chart

• Make a responsible decision
• someone you get along with but more importantly
• Someone you WORK WELL next to
• won’t talk to them too much/get distracted
• No group has only 1 student
• You will have 1 minute to meet these criteria, I will make adjustments if needed and I will pass the paper around
• Fill in First and Last Name (you may use an initial if you have a long last name)

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C - Conversation

H - Help

A - Activity

M - Movement

P - Participation

Success!!

CHAMPS

• C –Conversation
• H – Help
• A – Activity
• M – Movement
• P – Participation
• S – SUCCESS!

Daily Routine - Overview

1. Warm Up/Beginning of Class Routines
1. Tardy?
2. Good Things
3. Instructions/Announcements
4. Studio Time
5. Clean Up/Exiting Class Routines

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CHAMPS - Entering the Class

• C - Greet Teacher, Level 2 with Peers
• H - Check Yourself, Ask Peers, Ask/Tell Teacher
• A - Enter the Class
• M -
• Sanitize Hands
• Wait your turn (patiently)
• Walk to your seat
• Get Bin/Basket for your table if you are first
• P
• Greet the teacher
• Sit in your seat
• Begin the Warm Up Sketch/Activity
• S – SUCCESS!

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Routine - Tardies

Routine - Tardies

• Tardy policy – see school handbook for tardy policy
• Tardies shouldn’t be an issue
• HOWEVER, if you do come in late:
• Enter at level zero
• Make Eye contact with me so I know you are there, or hand me the tardy slip
• Join as best you can into the class (CHAMPS)

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Daily Routine - Overview

• Warm Up/Beginning of Class Routines
• Tardy?
• Good Things
• Instructions/Announcements
• Studio Time
• Clean Up/Exiting Class Routines

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CHAMPS - Instruction Time

• C - 0, Clarifying Questions under 10 sec.
• H - Raise hand
• A - Direct Instruction
• M -
• Sit in Seat
• P
• Active Listening
• Take Notes if Necessary
• S – SUCCESS!

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Instruction Time

• Unless quietly getting a tissue at the tissue station (1 at a time)

Daily Routine - Overview

• Warm Up/Beginning of Class Routines
• Tardy?
• Good Things
• Instructions/Announcements
• Studio Time
• Clean Up/Exiting Class Routines

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CHAMPS - Studio Time/Independant Work Time

• C - Level 2 Conversation Level (Individual voices cannot be heard)
• H -
• Ask elbow partner
• Raise hand quietly
• A - Studio Time - Work on Project
• M -
• Sit in your seat
• Sharpen your pencil, Get Kleenex
• Get Materials from activity stations
• P - Working on The Project, Staying focused, checking peers
• S – SUCCESS!

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Studio Time

Daily Routine - Overview

• Warm Up/Beginning of Class Routines
• Tardy?
• Good Things
• Instructions/Announcements
• Studio Time
• Clean Up/Exiting Class Routines

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Routine - Wrap-Up/CLEAN-Up and Exiting

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• Students will clean up their materials and area
• TABLE JOBS 1 through 4
• Tables
• Material Basket
• Folder Bin
• Extra Help
• Students WASH their hands
• Sit down in your seat

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Table Job 1 - Tables

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• Student Grabs Paper Towel
• When table is cleared off, it will get sprayed
• Using FLAT/FOLDED paper towel and your whole hand, student wipes off ENTIRE table
• Throws paper towel away at NEAREST trash can

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Table Job 2 - Material Basket

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• Student makes sure the materials in the basket are put away correctly AS PICTURED

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Table Job 3 - Folder Bin

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• Student makes sure folders are neatly placed in the bag
• Student makes sure material basket and folders are placed NEATLY back into the bin as pictured
• Student returns bin to its proper location

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FOLDERS

1. Fold Paper in half NICELY
2. Open Up
1. FRONT - Name in LARGE Bubble Letters
2. BACKGROUND/BACK -
1. 3 things you like
2. Pattern
3. favorite part of school
4. Color/doodles to fill the whole space
3. Glue strip on inside to make a pocket

Table Job 4 - EXTRA HELP

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• Student Helps any job that is struggling/absent
• Student takes a look at the floor/surrounding area to make sure that area is clean

Washing Hands

Washing Hands

• HOW TO WASH HANDS
• Alton Brown

CHAMPS - Exiting the Class

• C - Greet Teacher, Level 2 with Peers
• H -
• Raise hand silently
• Meet with teacher after class
• A - Exit the Class
• M -
• Clean up Area following procedures
• Sit in your seat ASAP after clean up
• P
• Stand up, Push in chair, When Dismissed
• Wait silently, Teacher dismisses class
• S – SUCCESS!

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Routine - Dismissal

Classroom Expectations - OVERVIEW

• We will be creating a Social Contract Later this week
• Do What is Right
• Do Your Best
• Treat Others the Way You Want to be treated

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Extra Information

• Returning From an Absence
• Attention Signal
• Mental Health
• When to Stay Home
• Clean Up/Sanitation
• Food/Drink
• Collected Work
• Late/Missing Work
• Magic Word of the Week
• Teacher’s Space
• Misbehavior
• Drills

Routine – Returning from an Absence

Routine – Returning from an Absence

• Complete any missed Warm Up’s
• Listen during instruction time to see where we are at in the current project
• DURING STUDIO TIME
• Check Google Classroom to get anything you missed

Attention Signal

• Hand Signal
• T
• With sweeping arm motion
• “I need your help”
• OR “Time out”

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Mental Health

• Your mental health is just as important as your physical health
• In times of difficulty, this can become more obvious

Mental Health

When to stay Home

• Screener

Clean Up/Sanitize

• Every day
• Enter, sanitize hands
• Cleaning Procedures
• Wash Hands before leave

Food/Drink

Collecting Completed Work

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• Warm Ups
• Collected Weekly - in person
• Projects
• Collected in a pile at the end of each day and stored in drawer unless due
• FINISHED projects collected in pile at teacher desk

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Late/Missing Assignments

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• All work will be turned in the day it is due REGARDLESS of full completion for a partial grade
• INCOMPLETE WORK will be made available for students to complete with extra time and RETURNED IN for a better grade
• In most cases, materials/projects WILL NOT go home - you will have to manage your own studio time
• There will be “finish days” to catch up on projects or participate in finish early activities
• All projects are due a couple days before the end of the marking period

Procedures – Teacher’s Space

Procedures – Teacher’s Space

• Teacher space includes the desk and computer area.
• Only enter teacher space upon invitation
• There may be confidential information. We are to be respectful of other people's information. This will be put away before you are given an invitation into teacher space.

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Procedures – Teacher’s Space

• Be respectful of teacher area materials
• Unless given permission, do not take something from the teacher area

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• Other teacher space include the cupboards
• unless given permission to enter a cupboard, please stay out of them.

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Misbehavior

• Warning
• 4 questions
• What are you doing?
• What should you be doing?
• Are you doing it?
• What are you going to do about it?
• What happens if you don’t fix it?
• Lunch Reflection - POINTS
• Higher Level Consequences per handbook

Correction Procedures for Misbehavior

Drills

• Fire
• Exit DOOR 9
• Walk Straight/Remain quiet to across the parking lot
• Teacher will have walkie talkie and need to hear
• Tornado
• Exit MAIN DOOR
• Walk to Gym (locker room)
• Sit AT LEVEL 0
• Teacher will have a walkie talkie and need to hear

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Drills Cont. Lock Down

• Soft Lock Down
• Remain in Classroom
• Pull stop away from door so it locks
• Pull shades down
• Continue as before
• Hard Lock Down
• Pull Stop from door so it locks
• Pull Shades Down
• Baricade Door
• SILENTLY SIT IN KILN ROOM Teacher will be last one in
• Listen to teacher - they will have walkie talkie
• take care of yourself before others

Exit Ticket

• If you could add anything to this classroom to make it feel more comfortable, what would it be?
• If you could add any school appropriate song to a class playlist, what would it be?

Dumbledore

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Harry Potter

Sirius Black

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