Monday Memo
October 7, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great
weekend. Last week we enjoyed a presentation by some students in 4H encouraging
the 4th graders to join their program. They sent a bag full of
information home with them. This week is fire prevention week and conferences.
Just a reminder that there is no school on Friday as a compensation day for
evening conferences. I look forward to visiting with you this week. The quarter
isn’t over, so grades won’t be there, but we will talk about your child’s
progress up to this point. Thank-you for having your child read their
Encyclopedia Brown book each night. Many have already passed their quiz over it
and are reading a second Encyclopedia Brown book. They can read a book of their
choice if they get a second Encyclopedia Brown quizzed over. They have to have
one Encyclopedia Brown book quizzed on by October 15th. This grade I
use on their comprehension score.
In reading this week, we be
starting a new unit entitled “American Stories”. The stories they are reading all take place
in America. The first one we will read is called Tomas and the Library Lady. This story is about how a little boy
was from a family of migrant workers and spent time in a few different places
and the importance of a library in his life. He eventually grew up to be a
writer. They will be working on the following skills this week: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Contractions, and
Drawing Conclusions. During grammar this week the focus will be on proper nouns
and proofreading for capital letters. The spelling list contains words contain
the ou and schwa sounds.
In Math this week we will
be working this week on subtracting whole numbers and money, looking for
patterns in numbers, matching words and expressions, and evaluating
expressions.
We will start social
studies this week, we are going to start working on the regions of the United
States. The first one that we will be working on is the Northeastern Region. We
will be looking at the states along the Atlantic Coast this week. We will also
talk about the colorful environment, the cities, and their connection to the
seaways, and we will work on some cause/effect in social studies. If you have
any artifacts, brochures, or souvenirs etc.
from the Northeastern Region of the United States, to share with the
students, please feel free to send them and the students can share them.
As I will be seeing you at
conferences this week, I won’t be sending a Monday Memo out on the week of
October 14th. I will resume on Mondays beginning October 21st.
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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