Monday Memo
November 12, 2012
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! I am excited that we are headed to the Belmond Rehabilitation Center on Friday. We are going to perform some Thanksgiving poems for them and we are going to do some fun activities with them as well. We are so fortunate to have them as our adopt a business!!
This week in Math, we are well into our multiplication chapter. The students are doing a fantastic job with it!! They just have to make sure they know their multiplication facts and that will help them in math from this point on. Working on our daily math “buckets” is also a great reinforcer of all of the math skills they have been introduced to. It is such a great way to prepare for the spring Iowa Assessments!!
I will be sending home a study guide for Science on Tuesday. The test will be on Wednesday. I will be sending a Social Studies study guide home with the students on Thursday, for that test to be on Friday. This is our last week of working on the Southwest Region of the United States. Our Science chapter has been talking about plants and their needs, adaptations and they ways they can reproduce.
For reading this week, we will be ending the “American Stories” unit. We will be reading two stories this week. One is on Emilia Earhart and one is on Duke Ellingston. We will be working on comprehension, vocabulary and reviewing the skills we learned this unit. The students will be working on an end of the unit skill’s test this week. This will help us see how the students are retaining what they are learning during our skill’s test. The spelling list with the week’s list is attached.
We finished our essays that we wrote for a contest held annually by the local VFW. The topic this year was “What is your favorite branch of the military”. The essays have been turned in and are being judged in the near future.
As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions/concerns!
Have a great week!!
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093 (Home) 444-4300 ext. 336 (School)
Email: chris.mallen@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us
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