Monday Memo
November 14, 2011
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! We enjoyed the wonderful assembly for Veteran’s Day last Friday. It was nice to see everyone with their red, white, and blue on!! The kids also entered an essay contest sponsored by the local VFW Auxillary. The essay was entitled: “My Definition of A Veteran Is…” I sent the entries in on Monday and usually in January sometime we find out the winner. They were very good and I am anxious to see the results!
In reading this week we are finishing up on our “American Stories” theme. We will be reviewing nouns and using commas between nouns… during our grammar time. Our spelling words are some more homophones and are attached to this memo. We will be reading a play from a book we read at the beginning of the year entitled “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing”. We will be just doing some activities over the genre of plays. We will be looking at words with er, ist, and or in them. We will also be working on the vocabulary words that go with a play. We will also be reading the story Sara, Plain and Tall and then hoping to get to also read Skylark. That is the next book. My hope is that the kids will want to continue the series and read Caleb’s Story and More Perfect Than The Moon. We will be doing some activities over the stories as well. I also have some neat comprehension activities for Thanksgiving that we will be doing this week and next. On Monday, we are going to the Care Center and perform some poems for our friends and then do a fun color sheet with them. We really like to go over and see them!! The students are reading The Jacket right now and need to have it read to test on Friday.
In Math, we are getting closer to finishing up on our multiplication and division unit. We are working on multiple step problems, writing and evaluating expressions, finding a rule, and solving multiplication and division problems. We will continue working on our review “buckets”. We are also taking daily multiplication tests for those that still haven’t gotten a 100% on their X test. Please make sure you are working with them for at least 5 minutes each night. It really makes a difference!
We are starting on the Mountain Region of the United States. Again, if you have anything to share from that region, that you may have visited, have relatives at… please feel free to send it with your child on Mondays for our share day. We are working on the human body systems in Science.
I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving brea
As always, feel free to give me a call or email with any questions or concerns!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-4300 ext 336 (School) 444-3093 (Home)
Email: chris.mallen@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us
