Monday Memo
January 27, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend!! I think the kids
really enjoyed going bowling last week! I also think they got really tired of
indoor recessJ
Hopefully it will warm up a bit soon and they can go back outside. Map testing
begins this week and I don’t think we will be starting until next week. I will
put more about that in my next memo.
This week in our “Problem Solvers” unit, we are reading a
story entitled The Last Dragon. It is
the story of a little boy who sees a puppet dragon in the window and the
lengths he goes through to restore it back to its former condition. The
students will be working on a variety of skills throughout this story
including: Comprehension, Vocabulary,
the prefixes pre, con, com, drawing conclusions, following directions, and the
suffixes ful, less, and ly. Grammar this
week has us working on adjectives. We have covered a few parts of speech so far
this year: Nouns (and the different
kinds of nouns), Verbs (and the different kinds of verbs) and now we will start
learning about adjectives and how they can improve our writing… Our spelling
words this week have the final /j/ and /s/ sounds and the list is attached to
this memo.
We are going to be working on multiplying 3D x 1D numbers
this week, choosing a computation method, and multiplying money. Now I think
the students are understanding why it was so important to learn their
multiplication facts! It sure makes their life easier in math, to have those
memorized. Again, thank-you for helping them with those!
We didn’t get as far with social studies as I had planned
last week, so this week on Thursday, they will be taking home their study
guides for a test on Friday. Next week, we will see how Map Testing goes. Our
next region is the Northeast Region and we will be talking about rocks and
minerals in Science.
Upcoming Event: KC
Spelling Bee: February 8 at 4:00 in my
classroom. The spelling lists and entry forms are in my classroom.
As always, please feel free to call/email with any
questions/concerns!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093
(Home) 444-3500 Ext. 336 (School)
Email:
chris.mallen@belmond-klemme.k12.ia.us
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