Monday Memo,
October 29, 2012
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a nice, long weekend! It was a pleasure visiting with you at conferences. I want to let you know that our fall party is on Oct. 31st with the parade at 2:00.
We will begin a story entitled “Boss of the Plains” this week. This story is our third story in the “American Stories” unit. We will be doing vocabulary, and comprehension skills over this story and we will be working on writing a business letter. Our grammar lessons this week are working on more plural nouns. Our spelling words this week have some controlled r sounds and are attached to this memo. Our guided reading stories are stories about the Plains. Our centers this week will have us working on reading a vocabulary story and answering some comprehension questions over this story, correcting a misspelled paragraph and writing it correctly, and working on setting up a business letter appropriately. Just a reminder for the students to keep reading their “Bound for Oregon” chapter each night. The library was closed last week due to the Book Fair, so we will get there tomorrow to get another RC book to read once that chapter is finished.
In Math,we will be working on problem solving applications, our diagnostic review of the chapter, our book chapter test and our “official” chapter test. On Friday, we will be playing a mental math game called “Randy Raccoon” and we will play some math games.
As I spoke at conferences, we will be starting the DOGS (Daily Oral Geography) today. Just a reminder that they have to be handed in by Friday, have their names on it, and have all of the questions correct, to be in our weekly drawing. They may use any resources they have to answer the geography questions. Their social studies book is a huge reference. The back of the book has a lot of maps they will need.
As always, please feel free to call or email me with any questions/concerns.
Have a great week!
Chris Mallen
Phone: Home: 444-3093 School: 444-4300 ext. 336
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