Monday Memo
September 24, 2012
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! Just a couple reminders to send back the room parent volunteer sheets as soon as you can. I will be making a list to send home with the kids telling who will be coordinating which party… I thank-you so much in advance for giving of your time and effort towards putting on a party for the kids!! With that, just a reminder to send $2.00 with your children towards the parties.
This week and next week we will be finishing up on our Journey’s unit. We will be reading two stories this week. One of the stories is entitled The Earthenware Pig. The other is a series of short mysteries from other countries. This secton of our reading series focuses on the genre of mystery storiesThe students will be working on comparing and contrasting the two stories. They will also work on the vocabulary for each story. We will be reviewing some of those skills we went through, throughout the unit. Those skills will include guide words, abc order, syllabication and the author’s thoughts. We will be writing a story this week about a make-believe journey the students want to go on. We will also have our center time which will have us reviewing some grammatical skills, reading a vocabulary book and answering questions over it, and they will be working on Successmaker in the computer lab. In grammar, we will be reviewing their grammar skills from the unit. They will also be having their first review list of spelling words, from the unit. . We will be reading an Encyclopedia Brown book next week as well to finish our unit on Journeys. Our Laura Ingalls Wilder books are due to be tested on October 1st. Thanks for making sure they are reading those.
In Math, the students will be finishing up on their first unit. They did an amazing job with counting back change!! Have them show you at home what they can do. Our first test will be this week. I am not sure which, day as it will depend on how much we get done. We will also be doing our daily reviews. Remember to keep having them practice those multiplication facts. Some are doing much better while others really need to work on them. I thank-you for helping them at home with those!!
In Science, we are starting our new unit over animal growth and adaptations. The students usually really enjoy this interesting unit. I have their wonderful tests in their file to share with you at conference time.
In Social Studies, we will be starting our regions of the United States. We will start with the Southwest Region. If you have any brochures or artifacts from this region, please send them with your child to share with us on Mondays.
We will be having some periodic drills this week. They include a fire, tornado and intruder drill. I wanted to let you know in case the children mentioned any of the above. We had a brief talk as to why it was important to practice drills for all emergencies.
It is amazing how quickly time is flying. This will be our last week in September. I have the kids move their desks the beginning of each month and that seems to be kind of exciting for them to have new kids to work with. I can honestly say that these kids are absolutely a joy to teach and I just want you to know thatJ
As always, call with any questions/concerns!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: (Home): 444-3093 (School) 444-4300 ext. 336
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