Mallen's Monday Memo December 2, 2013


Monday Memo

December 2, 2013

 

Dear Parents,

 

I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving break!! It is always nice to spend time with family and friends! We enjoyed our time at the Belmond Care Center and loved the geography Jingo that we played!! The kids did a great job with their new friends and we rewarded with such nice prizes and a treat when they left. We appreciate all the care center does for us throughout the year!! Thank-you also for the props for the play we put on, last Tuesday! They were the directors, stars, and prop people for the play. Some of them learned that when you promise your team to bring something and then you don’t, you let them down. Always a good lesson to learn…

 

In reading this week, we are starting a new unit entitled “Amazing Stories”.  Our first story is from the wonderful author of Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg. It is entitled The Stranger. We are working on the following skills this week:  Comprehension, Vocabulary, Noting Details, Structural Analysis:  Compound Words and we will be reading some Autumn poems. Our grammar lessons this week are over action verbs and our spelling words, which are attached to this memo, are compound words. We also have the SRA kits this week.

 

In Math we will be starting on Chapter 5. We are finally in multiplication. All of that hard work learning their multiplication facts, we start to pay off!!. Speaking of that, we are down to everyone but 2 people (who are almost there), having received 100 percent on their multiplication timed tests and being members of the “Never Again Club”!!!  Our new chapter this week will have us working on multiplying multiples of 10,1,000 or 10,000, estimating products, doing some mental multiplication problems, and being introduced to using arrays to multiply.

 

We tested over our plant adaptation chapter last week. The results were sent home with your child. It was a short chapter. Our next chapter introduces the students to the different systems of the body. We will start this week by working on the skeletal, muscular,circulatory and respiratory systems.

 

As I mentioned in my last memo, I have a few projects in mind for the class this December. We have been talking about being good citizens. With that, I would like to do the following:  Our school is going to be sending home bags of food to people who may not have any on the weekends, after school, holiday time… If you are able, I would love for our class to help with this project. If you can send some taxable type of items such as toilet paper, soap, shampoo, the list goes on, that you could have your child bring by December 15th, I will put all in a box and give it as a donation from our class towards going home in those food bags. I appreciate your time and effort in doing that. I would also like to ask that if you are able, if you could send $2.00 with your child, I would match what the kids bring and we will use that money towards the cheer fund. If you could send that money by the 15th of December also, I will get it to the Cheer Fund. Thank-you for that.

 

Just a reminder that with the snow, the students are required to wear their snowpants and boots. It is also so cold that it makes recess a lot more comfortable for them with all of that on!

 

 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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