Monday Memo
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great
long weekend. This week is another busy one for us! We are going to the Belmond
Rehabilitation Center and Belle Haven at 1:40 on Thursday, to parade our
costumes for them. We will come back to school and participate in the parade at
school and then we will have our Fall Party. I would also like to remind you
that your child needs to have read Bound
for Oregon by Friday, November 1st. I will be giving them their
new story at that time. That book will be due November 15th. If they
finish early, I will send them to the library to read a book of their choice.
In reading this week, we
will be finishing our story entitled Boss
of the Plains. We will be working on the skills of comprehension, vocabulary,
and using context clues. Our grammar skills for this story include rewriting
plural nouns and looking for the correct noun endings. Our spelling test this
week will be on Friday. We spent a lot of time last week working on the
individualized SRA stories. They are a wonderful way to individualize their
learning, and they hold them accountable for their reading through a variety of
activities they do over the story. We get the kits about a week and a half each
month. They are a great way to prepare for our Iowa Assessments in the spring.
In Math this week we will
be working on Chapter 4 in math. We will begin by working on units of time,
elapsed time (which I have a really neat trick to help with that), writing to
compare, and doing some skills using a calendar.
We will continue to be
working on the NE region of the United States. This week we will be talking
about the Industrial Revolution. We will compare the cities in the NE region to
the city of Mumbai. We will work on distributions maps this week. By the end of
the week, we will be talking about how the NE region of the United States looks
today. Your child brought home their first DOG last week. DOG stands for Daily
Oral Geography. I give them to the students on Monday, unless they don’t have
school that day, then it is the next day they have school. They are due on
Fridays. They are a series of geographical questions to help the students
understand where they are in the world. They may use any resource they have,
their social studies book, internet, maps, you… If they turn them in by Friday,
have their name on them, and get them perfect, they will be in a drawing for a
prize. Look for those to come home at the beginning of each week. If it is a
significantly short week of three days or under, we won’t do one. Thank-you for
your help with these!!
We have almost everyone in our
“Never Again Club”! Again, I thank-you
for helping your child learn those multiplication facts. It absolutely will
help them throughout the rest of their math career in school! I also appreciate
that you sign the planners verifying that they read at least 15 minutes a
night! That is one of the best things we can do for the kids!
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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