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You may be asking, what can be found here? What is the purpose of our site? Think of this page as the hub for your child's classroom! Here, you can find resources for parents and students alike, an inside look inside our classroom layout, monthly cafeteria menus, student birthdays, books that are used within our classroom, and even outlines of lesson plans that set an example for the kinds of things your child will be learning. You can of course also find our contact information here if you need to contact us. We hope you utilize the resources on our page, and find them as helpful as we do.

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This website is run by the National Council of Teachers of English's (NCTE). On it, you can find excellent and FREE lessons in reading and language arts! Each lesson demonstrates the Common Core and NCTE standards being utilized and the duration of the lesson. In addition, every lesson is decomposed into sections: a resources and preparation section, an instructional plan, and a link to related resources.

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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students.

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Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students.

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This website provides incredible lessons which are free! Each lesson has at least one link to relevant standards with a special emphasis on current events-related topics. Furthermore, Scholastic supplies teachers with various activities such as listen-and-read, writing, and vocabulary!

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Scholastic Teaching Tools | Resources for Teachers

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Explore Scholastic Teaching Tools for teaching resources, printables, book lists, and more. Enhance your classroom experience with expert advice!

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This website can supply any classroom with interactive lessons featuring STEM and language arts content topics. These lessons are constantly evolving; staying updated and relevant to ensure engagement and interest!

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards.

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Class Dojo is a fun way for me as the teacher to communicate with you as the parent or guardian how a child's behavior is within the classroom. Students can recieve positive points with their monster when they demonstrate good classroom conduct as well as lose points if they are not demonstrating that they can follow the classroom rules. Students can see this as a positive behavior reward system and parents can see where some struggle points may be with their child

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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Powerschool is a great app that can be utilized by both parents and students to see grades for each class. Parents and students can click on each class and look at any assignment that was grades within the class. Comments from teachers, reccomendations and much more can also be found in there. It is a helpful way for parents to keep track of students grades and assignments and see where grade patterns may be occuring

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ABC mouse is a fun and educational website that helps students learn the basics of reading and writing skills as well as math skills. ABC Mouse goes up to grade 3 and works along with the childs level of learning

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ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more! For kids ages 2 to 8.

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IXL is a math program grades Pre-K through grade 12 where students can practice their math skills based off of the common core math curriculum. The math is broken down into sections based off of the math that we will be teaching within the classroom. IXL tracks the students progress and allows the students to work through problems on their own time. IXL also allows the student to go through the steps of the problem when they get an answer wrong which allows them to continue to practice certain math facts

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IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

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IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K-12. Used by over 15 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 10,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

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Xtramath is a math fact learning program that teaches and encourages math fact fluency. This program allows students to practice their math facts (includes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and encourages them to do so in a timely manner. The program tests them with a grouping of math facts and depending on which ones they get wrong or are too slow on, they will get tested on them once again until they recieve a green mastary for those problems. Progress can be emailed both to the parent and the teacher and progress can be tracked

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XtraMath - 10 minutes a day for math fact fluency

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XtraMath is a free program that helps students master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

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This website offers FREE lessons on wildlife, space, conservation, and so much more! Each activity provided has a long enough duration time that they could be comfortably completed in class or at home. National Geographic prioritizes critical thinking, inquiry, and creativity as its foundational ideals to make foe engaging units.

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Education Resources | National Geographic Society

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Inspire learners to explore National Geographic through interactive lesson plans, maps, storytelling and a wide variety of resources to illuminate their world.

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Hello! My name is Miss Wheaton. I am a graduate of Westfield state university, class of 2024. I love everything bright and colorful, and I am an advocate for the arts and creativity as a whole! I am so excited to get to know you and your children. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns, or just to say hello, shoot me an email at mwheaton8091@westfield.ma.edu. I am looking forward to a wonderful year, and hope you are as well!

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Hello! I am Miss Lasek. I am so excited to be one of your classroom teachers this year! I am excited for a year of fun, learning, creativity and so much more! If you need to get in contact with me or have any questions, comments or concerns, my email is elasek9276@westfield.ma.edu. Here's to yet another amazing year :)

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ABCYA is a wonderful website full of educational games for kids of various grade levels. The games are separated into 5 different categories/themes: letters, numbers, strategy, skill, and holiday themed games.

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ABCya! • Fourth Grade Learning Games, Ages 9 - 10

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Kids LOVE our free online games! Hunt for jewels, fly to space, and explore while practicing times tables, verb tenses, and more 4th grade skills. Play now!

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A variety of mathematics games that are both fun and helpful whether you struggle with math, just want to review concepts, or want to find a productive way to pass the time!

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Cool Math Games - Free Online Games for Learning and Fun

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Coolmath Games is a brain-training site for everyone, where logic & thinking & math meets fun & games. These games have no violence, no empty action, just a lot of challenges that will make you forget you're getting a mental workout!

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Does your child have a hard time expressing their emotions? This website is a great way for children to learn all about their emotions and how to deal with them in healthy ways through fun loving emotional monsters!

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Our curriculum, developed with psychologists and educators, creates an individualized learning environment for your child. While interacting with Moody, our little emotional monster, your child will learn and practice essential emotional skills.

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Tools to Better Manage Emotions: Free SEL Program from Emotional ABCs

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Our curriculum, developed with psychologists and educators, creates an individualized learning environment for your child. While interacting with Moody, our little emotional monster, your child will learn and practice essential emotional skills.

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Hello friends and families! My name is Miss Houle. I am looking forward to working with each and every one of you this year! As you may know, in our classroom we will not tolerate any behavior that is unkind. We will work hard to make a welcoming classroom community in which everyone is valued and has something to contribute. If you ever need reach me, you can shoot me an email: ghoule8947@westfield.ma.edu. I can't wait to have a wonderful school year!

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Do you love Minecraft? Then try Minecraft education edition! Use it to explore concepts that we went over in class, or just to satisfy your curiosity. Minecraft education edition is an add-on to Minecraft that lets you explore a variety of academic topics while working together with friends, family, and classmates!

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Get Minecraft Education for your classroom. Find out how using this game will take your students’ learning to the next level.

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Does your child enjoy or take interest in science and the world around them? With Generationgenius, students can go through and look at different science videos, science experiments, and fun activities related to the science around them while having fun in the porcess! The videos make it fun for all ages and is a great way to introdce some of the science topics that we are going to be learning all about

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Video lessons made in partnership with the National Science Teachers Association that engage, educate & inspire kids in science. Generation Genius videos are 12-minutes long and include lesson plans, teacher guides, DIY activities and stopping points for class discussion.

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On this website, teachers can access the full meaning of “tolerance”. Educators can find how to teach being an active member of a diverse community/democracy. This website promotes equity and opportunity for all. There are many FREE resources on this page that explore and support a well-rounded civics education which emphasizes inclusivity.

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Learning for Justice is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that centers civic and political action education for everyone.

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NASA for kids! Just like the typical NASA site, but with games, special missions, a gallery with daily pictures, and access to NASA tv!

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NASA encourages you to visit NASA Kids' Club and use its games and activities to inspire the next generation.

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Kids history network. Explore history. with articles, worksheets quizzes, videos, and fun games!

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History for kids - Free history network for kids

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Learn about the ancient Egyptian civilization and what they did in their daily lives. Many things like metal work, paper making and amazing architecture all came from the Egyptians.

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History for kids Welcome to History for Kids the free online history network. We hope you enjoy and have fun exploring our history. The website is packed with articles, worksheets and even a quiz on each section.

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A curated playlist of fun and educational kid-friendly Ted Talks.

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Get a daily email featuring the latest talk, plus a quick mix of trending content.

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Fun, informative and captivating talks to inspire young minds.

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This is a layout of our classroom. Our main student seating is larger tables with room many chairs for optimized collaborative work and discussion. At the front center of the room is where our whiteboard and projector are, front and center for the students for morning announcements and presentations, located on the left in front of the room is a table that can double as a teacher's desk as well as a spot for students' quiet time/independent work time. In the back of the room we have our teacher's desk, nearby the computers, and some group seating for both independent and group work, having the desk near that area of the room leaves the teacher only a few steps away at any given time. We also have storage on both sides of the room, for student storage as well as a place to store supplies not being used during that present time. Finally, we have our reading nook on the right side in front of the classroom, with a comfy rug, beanbag chair, and of course, shelves full of books! Having our room set up in this way allows students to separate full-group work, and independent work, as well as have a quiet, cozy place for reading time. With there being desks on both sides of the room, the teacher is readily available and accessible for the students.

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A website to satiate your curiosity! Learn why sky is blue, how a tornado forms, and so much more! This site is jam-packed with articles, quizzes, and games!

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HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!

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HowStuffWorks has been explaining how things work to curious minds since 1998. Providing factual, unbiased content that's fun to read and makes difficult topics easy to understand.

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Our views on technology in relation to education!

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Our views on technology in relation to education!

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As our society evolves, technology continues to become integrated more and more into our daily lives, and education is not an exception to this rule. While technology is a beautiful thing, it is important to acknowledge the risks that come along with it. That is why we believe educating students on how to use technology in a safe, respectful, and responsible manner is an absolute necessity. We are a technology-friendly classroom, but more importantly, a technologically responsible classroom. Within our class, we will use technology as a resource to aid in student learning, and to enhance lessons, while of course, still using other creative and some traditional methods of teaching and learning.

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A lesson plan containing step-by-step procedures outlining how this lesson would ideally play out in class. This lesson in particular focuses on 7 types of simple machines students may interact with in their everyday lives. This particular lesson includes the use of an interactive website that will let students locate and learn about different types of simple machines. The expectations/objectives for the students include: being able to match the presented objects with their purpose, as well as demonstrating knowledge of the 7 simple machines highlighted in the class.

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EDUC 396 - Section B.  Project 1_ Team Star

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Another lesson plan example that is very similar to real activities that we do within our classroom. This plan contains a step-by-step outline of how to utilize its contents in a classroom setting. In this lesson, students are introduced to works such as Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, and are asked to analyze key themes, and be able to demonstrate knowledge of poetry and theme through several activities and assessments.

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This is what a typical day in our classroom will look like! :)

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On this document, you can find the compilation of class birthdays written as "NAME - DATE" under each month. We have NO May birthdays!

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Here, teachers can collaborate across the globe and utilize lessons, unit plans, activities, and more, both FREE and paid for! Teachers can upload anything from worksheets to bulletin boarders to share their hard work. TPT is an excellent source of added diversity into your child’s education!

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Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | Teachers Pay Teachers

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World's most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.

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This link will take you directly to this month's lunch menu!

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—----October 2022—---- School Lunch Menu

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On this website, teachers can examine a vast and diverse collection of videos, animations, and various video-based lessons/activities. This interactive website is sure to engage students and provide teachers an opportunity to explore and collaborate with other educators and their content. Teachers can upload content and add discussion questions, interactive topics, and more!

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Bring TED-Ed Student Talks to Your School

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Transform your classroom with TED-Ed! Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and inspire your students to share their big ideas.

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The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali

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The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali

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This book explores the relationship between two sisters. One sister is examining how her older sister is confidently wearing her hijab to school for the first time and the various emotions that come with such a big step. This book is about tolerance and acceptance of oneself and exploring identity as related to religious practices. The Proudest Blue serves to showcase a diverse perspective that will teach students about practices they may not know or understand.

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The main character is Lena whose mother is an artist. In the story, Lena describes the skin colors of her friends and the people around her through paint colors. She is incredibly descriptive whilst exploring the meaning of racial identity and diversity. This book will serve our students by providing an opportunity to see the richness in people and how difference is a positive attribute. In addition, the physical attributes that make every person seem different truly shows how similar we all are.

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This story explores cultural and racial identities and how oftentimes our misinformed opinions can be harmful to others’ confidence and well-being. The Day You Begin is about breaking past judgments and feeling comfortable in your own skin. This story helps students identify their own misconceptions. In addition, it teaches tolerance and how to be accepting of “norms” that do not necessarily align with our own.

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Mei is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who moved to New York. Mei learns to become connected to two differing cultures which blend together and describe her own identity. In addition, she helps her parents in becoming adjusted to their new home. This story will best help our students to understand how every person has a history of their own and come from different backgrounds. It is important that we celebrate this wealth of diversity and have opportunities to walk in another’s shoes through literature.

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The Pigeon HAS to Go to School by Mo Willems

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The Pigeon HAS to Go to School by Mo Willems

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Pigeon has to go to school and is not too pleased about the concept. The pigeon would much prefer to stay home and is worried about not liking school or being accepted. This story is a lovely first-day read to get out all of the nervous jitters regarding the school year as we begin to establish our classroom community! Students have always found this silly read to be relatable and validating of their own feelings regarding a new first-day experience.

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Here is another example of what lessons in our classroom can look like. This is an explanation for the lesson here, and below we have provided the math booklets that correspond with the lesson! Each booklet is made using the site Storyjumper, and is easily used and manipulated for students in order to provide a fun and interactive experience while learning.

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Here, students can use the edit feature and work in groups to solve exciting word problems and number sentences!

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Here, students can use the edit feature and work in groups to solve subtraction problems!

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The pirates found the treasure! Inside of the treasure chest there were 15 diamonds. Another pirate came along and stole 8 of the diamonds. Show how m...

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Here, students can use the edit feature to work in groups and solve multiplication problems!

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This lesson includes the use of a robot to build interactive stories!

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In our classroom, we base our enviorment off of five main classroom rules. We will have these rules displayed in our classroom as well as go over them when it is needed. These are what is going to keep our classroom running smooth

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In our class, we use Class Dojo to keep track of student behavior. Below is a breakdown of the prominent features that we utilize in our daily classtime.

Review:

Classroom: It is incredibly simple to upload your class list of names in order to form your "dojo". In the event that there is ever another pandemic, Class Dojo is an easy way to connect online and award students points/positive interaction.

Portfolios: Clss Dojo makes accessing your assignments an easy task. Inaddition, as a teacher, I can share exeplars for students who need a sample to build their own work upon.

Class Story: This application both builds classroom community and invites parents into the classroom.

Messages: Class Dojo makes it easy to reach out to parents/students and protects confidentiality whilst awarding points for conduct and effort.

Class Events: With this feature, teacher can easily announce what is occurring in class and outside of school hours. In addition, this feature keeps all events in one location to access and provides lots of information.

Groups: Class Dojo allows you to effortlessly organize students into groups for reading or mathematical instruction. In addition, you can create a group mascot to easily identify who is in what group.

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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These are some of the examples of what a student can LOSE points for. Some examples include not following the classroom rules, talking out of turn, or being disrespectful

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Class Dojo is useful tool to keep students motivated and on track, keeps parents informed, and gives teachers a clear view and way to manage their classroom. Each feature is unique and helpful in different ways, and is a great way to make learning fun and build classroom community.

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These are some examples of the POSITIVE things that students can earn points for. Some examples include helping others, turning in homework on time, and following directions