Monday Memo
October 8, 2012
I hope everyone had a great weekend! We enjoyed our Iowa’s Healthiest State walk on Wednesday. It was a beautiful day! We had an assembly right after that to talk about assembly etiquette. Today we are having a pep assembly to celebrate Homecoming week. The 7-12th graders came over to make it a school wide assembly. I have attached the dress-up things we have going this week at Jacobson for Homecoming week.
This week in reading we will be starting our new theme, Adventure Stories. Our first story is Tomas and the Library Lady. Your child is reading an Encyclopedia Brown book and they will need to be finished and tested on it by October 18th. In our small reading groups we each will be reading American Short stories that I believe your child will enjoy. This week we will be working on a grammar bucket, comprehension, dictionary skills and short stories. We are going to work on proper nouns, synonyms, antonyms and homophones in Language Arts. Last week we focused on the genre of mystery stories and we read an Encyclopedia Brown book as a class. We did a number of activities over the story, throughout our RTI time.
For math this week will be working on solving equations, number expressions, 3 ways of computation, and patterns. They will continue working on multiplication sheets and their bucket for review. We will also do some review of our 3 column addition and subtraction problems. Please work with your child with the multiplication facts. This will help them greatly if they have these memorized.
In Science we are continuing with animal adaptations and behaviors. We will be testing over this unit on Friday. Look for the study guide to come home with the students Thursday night.
Social Studies will be working on the Southwestern Region. I hope to send a study guide home with your child Tuesday night, with the test on Wednesday.
I sent a note home to the parents who agreed to help plan our parties this year. If you did not receive one, and had expressed an interest in planning one, let me know and I will send a note home with your child. Thank-you again for your time and effort!!
Have a great week!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
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