Wednesday, February 4, 2015

News at Defer

PBIS
Responsibility Pyramid

We have created a Responsibility Pyramid with expectations for each grade.  During the month of January teachers taught these expectations at every grade level focusing on what responsibility should look like for them.  

Beginning this month we will be adding purple cards to our class PBIS chart to reflect specifically on the grade-level expectations from the Responsibility Pyramid.   A student will receive a purple card for not showing responsible behaviors.  Listed below are the procedures around purple cards:

The maximum purple cards a student can earn in a day is one.
A student in grades 1st – 5th will miss the monthly Reward Party if they receive 8 or more purple cards.
Students will miss the monthly Reward Party is they receive 11 or more purple cards. 


Please review once again the pyramid with your child. 

Responsibility Pyramid
K – Personal Area Neat
1st – Desk and Locker Organized
2nd – Desk and Locker Organized, DOT
3rd – Desk and Locker Neat, Planner Written, Homework Completed
4th and 5th – Desk and Locker Neat, Planner Written, Homework Completed, Switch Materials

The Defer Food Drive
The Hunger Games

Defer’s January 90th birthday celebration focused on giving rather than receiving.  Our goal for the drive was to hope that 90 items at each grade level would be donated during January giving us a total of 540 food donations.  Thanks to your generosity we collected over 1,000 cans in the first week alone.  The Defer community is truly amazing!

The work of the Drive was done by our Student Council leaders.  Students in this organization unpacked bags, sorted donations into categories, and set up storage.  During the upcoming months they will be packing individual bags of food to share with families.  Under the direction of our Student Council sponsor, Mrs. Cross, and with additional help from Ms. Burrell and Mrs. Osborne these leaders were eager to have ownership of this project and they have done a fantastic job.  As our 7 Habits tell us – it was a win/win for everyone!