Monday Memo
November 4, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great
weekend. This week is another busy one for us! We went to the Belmond
Rehabilitation Center and Belle Haven at 1:40 on Thursday, and paraded our
costumes for them. We came back to school and participated in the parade at
school and then we had our Fall Party .Thank-you so much to our room mothers
for putting on that party for us!! I would also like to remind you that your
child needs to have read Bound for Oregon
by Friday, November 1st. I gave your child a new story to read
by November 15th, entitled The
Jacket. This is a shorter story written by Andrew Clements. I had read the
story he had written entitled No Talking and
I know they will enjoy this book as much as that one. If they pass the RC quiz
over this story before the 15th, I will send them to the library to
read another book. I will be giving them a book on the 15th.
In reading this week, we
will be starting a story entitled A Very
Important Day. This is a good story about what becoming an American Citizen
meant to them. We will be working on the skills of comprehension, vocabulary,
and reading from a non fiction text. Our grammar skills for this story will be
over possessive singular and plural nouns. Our spelling words this week are
attached to this memo. We will be spending some time this 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. We will be completing the MAP tests this week
in fourth grade. The students will be taking a test in math, language arts, and
reading. Each test takes about an hour to complete and we will be doing one
test per day. If they miss the tests due to being gone, they will make them up
over their recess time as we have to have everyone tested by next week. This is
a test that they complete three times a year.
In Math this week we will
be working on Chapter 4 in math. We spent a couple of days working on elapsed
time last week. Ask them about the number line elapsed time strategy that they
learned to use. It has really helped them with their understanding of elapsed
time. This week we will be doing some writing in our math, working on calendar
skills, pictographs and line plots. We will continue with our daily review and
working on our multiplication facts. Almost everyone has become a member of the
“Never Again” club. Hopefully soon we will have our entire class become a
member of the club. Most of the ones who are left, are very close. Thank-you
for going through those facts with them for about 5 minutes a night. It is
paying off!!
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 receives a DOG each
Monday, unless we don’t have school on Monday, in which case, they receive them
on Tuesday. 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
prizeThank-you for your help with these!!
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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