Monday Memo
January 7, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I would like to thank-you so very much for thinking of me this holiday season. I truly appreciate the extremely generous gifts I received from you. I also want to thank-you for having your child work on the “Pay it Forward” concept. It was awesome hearing the stories of how they helped others… We placed 4th in the food pantry “contest” with 72 items of food brought. That is fantastic and such a help to the food pantry!! We also were able to give money to the cheer fund which resulted in a very kind thank-you from them that was shared with the students. Hopefully they all felt the joy of giving at some point during their Christmas holiday! We also enjoyed our time at the care center. We played Christmas Jingo with them and I think the kids and the residents all enjoyed their time together. We will be going back around Valentine’s Day. I want to thank Maria Vara’s mother and Deserea Abele’s mother for the wonderful Christmas party they threw for our class! The students had a great time and I appreciate the time and effort put into planning and putting on the party!!
This week we will be working on a variation of the Cinderella folk tale. The title is Cendrillion. We will be working on the following skills for this story: Comprehension, Vocabulary, Suffixes, and using the pronunciation key. We will also be listening to a variety of other countries’ versions of Cinderella and making some sequence posters over those stories. I sent the spelling list home with the students last week. Our test over those words will be on Thursday. Our grammar this week is over helping verbs and their role with action verbs.
In Math this week the students will be making graphs, working on median, mode and range, using the data from surveys, and how to read misleading graphs. For Science this week we are working on Earth Science. We will be discussing earthquakes and volcanoes. We are also working on the next chapter of the Southeastern Region of the United States.
Just a reminder that we have a teacher inservice on Friday. I sent book orders out on Wednesday. They are due on January 15th. I also gave each an Andrew Clements book entitled The Jacket. It needs to be tested on by January 15th. I gave them a reading counts book for Christmas that they can read when they finish The Jacket and they can add that to the two books read for the month!
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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