Monday Memo
January 12, 2012
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. I think everyone is getting back into the routine of school again.
I thank-you for occasionally asking the kids about any random acts of kindness they may be doing. We are going to start sharing these on Monday.
For reading this week, we are finishing up on our “That’s Amazing” unit. This week we will be reading two stories, an excerpt from The Borrowers and an article from Boy’s Life Magazine entitled Lord of the Fleas. This week will be about reviewing our grammar and reading skills from the unit. Those include wrapping up the theme, reading for details, vocabulary over the new stories, comparing/contrasting the flea performers in the story, and a total review of action verbs, main and helping verbs, identifying tense, singular and plural nouns, and possessives, in grammar. Our spelling words are a review over some tricky words from the unit and are attached to this memo.
For Math, we are starting our fourth chapter. We tested over our Chapter 5 on Thursday, and I sent home the results to you. We are still doing period multiplication timed tests and for the most part they are doing really well, but a few still need to keep practicing them. We will talk about units of time and elapsed time, problem solving with time, calendars and pictographs this week, along with our daily reviews.
We are continuing to finish up on our mountain region of the United States. We will be talking about the women’s right to vote, and working on some social studies skills including drawing conclusions, and reference sources.
For Science, we are working on earthquakes and volcanoes this week. We will be doing some promethon board activities over these concepts as well as reading some books over these natural disasters.
I sent home book orders last Wednesday. They are due on January 16th.
As always, with any questions or concerns, please give me a call or an email!!
Have a great week!
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093 (Home) 444-4300 ext. 336 (School)
Email: chris.mallen@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us
