Monday Memo
(Tuesday) January 3, 2012
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone enjoyed their enormous holiday break!! Without snow, it was easier to go places, but really didn’t seem quite so festive. Just a reminder that when (or if) it snows, the students need to wear their snow pants and boots. I want to thank our room parents for the wonderful winter party they planned for us, before Christmas break. Thanks to Mrs. Noah, Mrs. Boots, Mrs. Smith, and Mr. Gansen!
The kids had a great time and we truly appreciate their time and effort in planning the party!! We were also treated to our student teacher, returning for the party!
We enjoyed going to the care center and playing Bingo with our friends there! The students are absolutely wonderful over there and all of them have made someone smile while visiting. I am continually proud of how they act while they are there! The staff is so generous with the students, with their prizes and treats for us!
Getting back to the reality of school, we will be reading a story that we didn’t get to that last week of school entitled “Heat Wave”. We will be working on comprehension and vocabulary as well as fantasy/realism, reading a diagram and comparing and contrasting it. We will be working on the tenses of verbs during our grammar time and we will be working on words with ed and ing on them for our spelling words, which are attached to this memo.
We will be finishing our 5th chapter in math, with our test on Friday. Knowing their multiplication facts, made this one of our easier chapters this year! For Science, we will be starting on earth science. We will begin with the layers of the earth, this week. For Social Studies we are going to be talking about the Shoshone Indian tribe and talking about ghost towns, in the mountain west region of the United States.
For the month of January, I am going to see how this goes. I am going to talk to the kids about doing Random Acts of Kindness and together we will brainstorm a variety of possibilities. Each Monday during Share Day, I am going to ask the students to name at least one Random Act of Kindness that they did that week for someone. It will be fun to see the variety of ways the students have affected another person in a positive way.
As always, feel free to call/email with any questions or concerns!!
Have a great week!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093 (Home) 444-4300 ext 336 (School)
Email: chris.mallen@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us
