Monday Memo
November 26, 2012
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing, long break!! It is so hard to believe we are looking at Christmas already! The students did a great job performing Thanksgiving poems and doing some activities with their new friends at the Belmond Rehabilitation Center! They are so good to us and once again I encourage the students to go sometime after school and visit their new friends. We finished our Science and Social Studies tests before the break and the results were sent home with your child. We are really moving along in our curriculum! We had a little fun reading some Thanksgiving stories and then creating sequence posters over the stories. I also sent those home with the students.
This week, we are finishing our “American Stories” theme in reading. We will be working on the genre of a play that comes from the story Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Having already read the book and an excerpt from the book has really helped them know the characters. I have given the students a book to have read by Friday. Some of them are reading a Judy Blume book entitled Fudge a Mania and some had already read some of her books and are reading a Sharon Creech book. I will be giving them another RC book next week to have read before the Christmas break. This week we will be doing some more reviewing in grammar over using details with nouns. Our spelling words are homonyms, again, which are hard for the students to understand the different meanings of the words. For the play, we will be working on vocabulary over “play” words, and some work on set direction, setting, etc. (elements of a play). Our guided reading books covered these elements as well.
For Math, we are already finishing up on our multiplication/division chapter. Next week we will be testing over it. This week we are working on problem solving with multiplication and division and we are doing some more algebra. That is so fun for the kids to be able to say they are doing! I still have a couple of students that really need to work on their multiplication facts. Most are doing a great job!! It just will help them so greatly for our future math lessons.
We are starting on the Northeast Region of the United States this week. If you have vacationed there or have any experience with that region of the states, please feel free to send any pictures, brochures, travel guides… The students love hands on things!! With Science, we are also starting a new chapter over the systems of the body. We will be talking about the skeletal, muscular, respiratory and circulatory systems of the body. We don’t go into depth about them, but we do introduce them to these vital systems that help our body work together.
As always, please feel free to call/email with any questions or concerns. I want to add again how thankful I am to have such an amazing class!!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093 (Home) 444-4300 ext 336 (School)
Email: chris.mallen@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us
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