Attention Parents: Lab Safety and guidelines

Please speak to your child about lab safety and guidelines. I have gone over this before, during and after every lab and I am still having some issues with students following the rules.

These safety rules and guidelines are for the safety of the children and myself while conducting a lab so it is very important they understand the importance.

Please note: Fooling around before, during and after is unacceptable and will result in a conduct referral, recess or morning detention as well as being removed from conducting the lab (which will result in receiving a zero for that lab, they will have to do a research paper on what we are studying to receive partial credit)

The labs being conducted might have dyes or mild chemicals so “playing around” puts not only themselves in danger but also their lab group and myself.

Here are some of the rules and guidelines that are being broken and exhibited at this time:

* Drinking water during a lab
* playing with objects ( erasers, little gadgets they have in their cases, eyewear, etc)
* pushing books into each other
* taking materials out of the classroom without permission
* playing with the lab gloves

At Sacred Heart School the children have the opportunity to conduct labs, observations and experiments so they can get that “hands-on” experience and correlate what they are learning in the lesson.
If this becomes a continued issue, I will have no choice but to put a pause on doing all this with the students.

Thank you for your continued support