Monday Memo
January 20, 2014
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a nice
weekend! Our third quarter has officially begun! Time truly does fly!
In reading this week, we are
going to be working on writing a personal narrative. We will spend the week
going through the process of writing, rough draft, edited copy, and final copy.
This will be a project that they will be putting in their portfolios for
conferences. We will also be working on our SRA kits this week.
In Math, if everything goes
well, we will probably be able to start testing over Chapter 6 by the end of
the week. This week we will be multiplying money, writing to explain, and
working on some problem solving. We have been doing some daily problem solving
activities also that are based on measurement problems. The problems ask for a
lot of conversion for example from cups to pints to quarts to gallons… We are
also doing our daily reviews and so you can see we are pretty busy during our
math time!!
We are working on the Southwestern Region of the
United States. I will be sending home a study guide on Thursday with the test
on Friday. This week we will be doing some prometheon board activities over
this region.
We have started an online
keyboarding program. This is exciting for the kids!! I think they have enjoyed
it. Next year, keyboarding will be one of their classes, but if we can get them
started in 4th grade, it really helps them be prepared. We are
alternating the keyboarding program with the Successmaker program during our
computer time.
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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