Mallen's Monday Memo November 11, 2013


Monday Memo

 November 11, 2013

 

Dear Parents,

 

I hope everyone had a great weekend. Happy Veteran’s Day to all! How grateful we are to the veterans for providing us with a safe place to live! If you are a veteran, I thank you!! This week is another busy one for us! Last week we finished our MAP testing. The students performed really well. It is a tough test and takes time and I appreciate how hard they worked on them!!

 

In reading this week, we will be reviewing our “American Stories” unit. We will be reading two stories this week. One is on Amelia Earhart and the other is on Duke Ellington. We will be talking this week about biographies. We will also be working on vocabulary and comprehension and completing a graphic organizer. Our grammar work this week is reviewing plural, singular and possessive nouns. Our spelling list will be a review this week as well. We will also have the SRA kits this week and will be spending time working on those. Most of the students have passed the quiz already on The Jacket. I thank you for making sure they get that read. For those that haven’t quizzed over it, it is due November 15th. Once they pass that, they can get a library book to read. I will be giving them a different book on the 15th of November.

 

In Math this week we will be working on Chapter 4 in math we will be making bar graphs, graphing ordered pairs, making line graphs, and working on mean, median and range. We are also doing a variety of daily reviews, along with our Drops in a Bucket.  We also are continuing to work on doing a multiplication sheet each day.

 

We will be finishing on the NE region of the United States this week. We will be completing some graphic organizers over the lessons we did last week. We will be reviewing the vocabulary we learned in this chapter and on Thursday I will be sending home a study guide for the Chapter 6 test that we will be doing on Friday. Thank-you for going through the study guide with  them!

 

 I 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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