Monday Memo
December 9, 2013
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great
weekend! The students had a great time bowling last week! This week we will be
spending some time preparing for Thursday night’s Christmas concert. We will
also have a dress rehearsal on Wednesday afternoon. We are also so very
fortunate to have the opportunity to visit the Belmond Rehabilitation Center on
Friday at 2:00. We are going to read them Christmas stories. We look forward to
our visits with our new friends!
In reading this week, we are
starting a new story entitled Cendrillion. We will be working on the
following skills this week:
Comprehension, vocabulary, using a venn diagram, discussing fairy tales
and the difference between realism and fantasy. Our grammar lessons will be
over using main verbs and helping verbs as well as identifying verbs. Our
spelling words for the week are attached to this memo.
In Math we will be multiplying
3 digit times 2 digit numbers. Now I think the students realize why it was such
a big deal to learn those multiplication facts!! It makes this process so much
easier. The students will also talk about how to choose a computation method.
We will also be multiplying money amounts this week. It will be a busy week in
math, when you add our daily reviews and fact sheets!! Again, knowing those
multiplication facts is really helping them now, so I thank-you for taking the
time to make sure they learned them!! We are down to only 3 people that haven’t
passed our 100 point 5 minute multiplication quiz at 100%! That is awesome!!
We have been talking about
the systems of the body. We have covered the skeletal, muscular, circulatory
and respiratory systems. This week we will spend time on the nervous and
digestive systems and we will continue reviewing about the above systems.
I am just sending home this
as a reminder:
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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