Monday Memo
April 29, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! Finally, some nice
weather to talk about!! We had a very busy week last week! We spent last week
celebrating Earth Week. On Monday we made sock puppets with Mrs. Wagner’s
class. We cleaned out our lockers and desks, we picked up garbage at City Park
on Thursday, we made a class poster that will be out in the community in a week
or so, and we listened to a story about garbage recycling. It was a great way
to acknowledge Earth Week and our role in keeping our planet clean! Our most
exciting and time consuming project we did last week were our ads for the
Belmond Independent. We divided up into teams and the kids designed ads for the
business they were given. They did such a great job and spent a lot of time and
effort designing these. Mr. Vanderlinden will be bringing copies of the Belmond
Independent for each of the 4th graders, so they can show them to
you. I think you will be impressed with what they have come up with!
This week we are reading a story for our Nature: Friend or Foe unit entitled “Wildfires”. This
is a good non-fiction story about how wildfires spread and what happens because
of them. The students will be working on a variety of skills this week
including: Comprehension, vocabulary,
main idea, supporting details, and the use of good and well and they will work
on analogies. During grammar they will be working on elaborating with adverbs.
The spelling words will all be words that are “usual” spellings. The list is
attached to this memo.
We will be getting back to Science this week. Last week I
talked about starting on weather. Well, due to ads, and Earth activities, it
didn’t happen. So, this week we will be working on Earth’s atmosphere, air
masses and ways of predicting weather.
We are working on congruent figures and motions,
symmetry, and other geometric terms this week during our geometry unit. We will
be doing some “playing” with manipulatives and talking about different figures
and how they are different and the same from each other.
Friday is our “Go the Distance Day”. It is a fun way for
our entire school to be physically active. We are very excited to have Kelly
Wilhelm skype us today from Antarctica. We are so lucky as he shows us a lot of
different things he sees down there and answers our abundant questions. It is a
great opportunity for the kids to “see” a continent they will most likely never
have the chance to go to. He is coming to actually talk to us in person on May
17th and we look forward to that day as well!!
As usual, any questions or concerns, please give me a
call/email!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093
(Home) 444-4300 (School)
Email:
chris.mallen@bkcsd.org
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