Monday Memo
October 21, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great
weekend. Since my last memo, we enjoyed having the fireman talk to us about
fire safety and they also gave us a ride on the fire truck. Their message is
one you can’t hear enough and we appreciate all the time and effort the
firefighters give to our community! We had guidance class this week, which is
something we have once a month. She is talking about goal setting with the
kids. This is National Red Ribbon Week. Today the students were to wear hats to
“Put a Lid on Drugs”. Tuesday it is “Tie Down Drugs” and they are to wear ties
for the day. Wednesday it is “Boot Out Drugs” and they can wear boots that day.
On Thursday it is “Sock it to Drugs Day” and they can wear wild socks and tuck
them outside of their pants. On Friday it is wear red day. Next week we will be
starting on Map Testing. We also have Monday off for teacher inservice. On
Thursday, the students have their fall party parade and are going to parade
over at the care center to show their costumes. They will be doing that about
1:40 and returning to school in time for the 2:00 parade. We thank our room
mothers for the fall party, Michele Miltenberger, Rachel Bonin, Sandra Willms
and Norma Gonzalez.
In reading this week, we
will be finishing our story entitled Tanya’s
Reunion. We will be working on the skills of comprehension, vocabulary, and
drawing conclusions this week. Our grammar skills for this story include
finding singular and plural nouns. Our spelling test this week will be on
Wednesday. We will start a new story on Thursday. This story is entitled Boss of the Plains. We will work on
comprehension, vocabulary this week as well as continuing our lessons on plural
and singular nouns. Our new spelling list will be coming home with the students
on Thursday. This list has ir, or, and ar sounding words in it. All of the
students are reading the RC book of Bound
for Oregon which is due on November 1st. For some of the
students, feel free to read a page and they read a page… This is a very good
book in the historical fiction genre.
In Math this week we will
be working on finishing our second chapter in math. We should be ready to take
the chapter test on Thursday. Most of this week will be devoted to reviewing
the chapter and preparing for the test. A lot of algebraic concepts have been
part of our discussion for the end of the chapter. We have talked a lot about
variables and using them and applying rules to them. We will be skipping to
Chapter 4 in math on Friday. We will go back to chapter 3 after we finish
chapter 4. Chapter 4 is over time, graphing skills, elapsed time and using
charts and graphs.
We will continue to be
working on the NE region of the United States. The students will be finishing
chapter 5, with the study guide going home with the students tonight. Tomorrow
will be the chapter 5 test. We will then be working with chapter 6, still on
the northeastern region. This chapter has us visiting the culture and economics
of the region, as well as studying a Native American tribe that is associated
with this region.
I thank-you for attending
conferences! I appreciate how we can work together towards giving your child
the best education we can!
I hope everyone has a great
week! As always, please feel free to call me with questions/concerns.
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093 (Home) 444-4300 ext. 336 (School)
Email: chris.mallen@bkcsd.org
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