Monday Memo
January 14, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a nice weekend! We really worked hard last week and accomplished so much!! We finished our “Amazing Stories” unit in reading. Our final test for the unit was on Thursday. I sent the results home with your child. Our new unit is entitled “Problem Solvers”. The stories are about people who have overcome difficulties to become very successful in life. Our first story is entitled My Name is Maria Isabel. This story is about a girl who has a difficult problem to solve. We will be working on the following skills this week: Vocabulary, Comprehension, prediction, discussing the genre of realistic fiction, words with the suffix –ible, using commas correctly, and writing an opinion. Our grammar lessons this week are about the forms of the verb “be”. Our spelling words are words with the /k/ sound spelled ck, k, or c and words with the /kw/ sound spelled qu and words with the /ng/ sounds. The list is attached to this memo.
We are finishing our 4th chapter in math this week, with our test on Friday. This week we will be looking at misleading graphs and problem solving. We will be doing a lot of review this week to prepare for Friday’s test. We will start our 5th Chapter on Monday.
In Science, we will be finishing up on our Earthquakes and Volcanoes unit. A study guide will go home with the students on Wednesday, with the test on Thursday. I will also be sharing some of the books I have about Earthquakes and Volcanoes. For Social Studies we will be continuing to learn about the Southeastern Region of the United States. This week we will talk about Colonial Williamsburg and then discuss how a new government was built.
The end of our second quarter is today. So hard to believe we are at the second semester point already!! Time surely flies!!
I hope you have a great week!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: (Home) 444-3093 (School) 444-4300 ext. 336
Email: chris.mallen@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us
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