Monday Memo

April 28, 2014

 

Dear Parents,

 

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Last week was filled with so many different things. We were treated to a visit from Kelley Wilhelm (AKA Antarctica Man). He has spoken to the 4^th grade for the last 4 years about his work on the continent of Antarctica. In the past he has Skyped us from there. He was here in person and did a fantastic presentation about the continent and what he does there. He will be receiving his PHD from the University of Wisconsin in August. One of the components of his Antarctica project was student outreach and our 4^th grade at Jacobson Elementary was chosen to be his outreach class. Ask your child what they learned about Antarctica! We also celebrated Earth Week by reading stories, cleaning our lockers out, and we will be picking up trash in the community, once the weather cooperates!

 

We finished our Heroes unit. We really enjoyed the stories and activities over a variety of different heroes. The students all wrote a hero story. I thought they did a great job on them and I look forward to you reading them when they take them home! This week our new unit is entitled:  Nature Friend and Foe. We will be reading stories about nature. Our new story is entitled “Salmon Summer”. We will be working on the following skills this week:  Vocabulary, Comprehension, Direction Following and we will be working on some outlining skills. Our grammar skills this week will be over adverbs. Our spelling words are attached to the memo.

 

For math, we started on our ninth chapter about decimals and fractions. We also started a new unit in Social Studies over the Southeastern region of the United States. We will be talking about the Mississippi River this week, comparing map scales, talking about the warm weather and crops in the region and we will talk about the coal mining done in the region.

 

Today, the students will be bringing home a note letting you know about our upcoming summer school. It will be held June 16-27^th and July 7-18^th. It is a four week session for reading. The students will be here from 9:00 until 12:00 with lunch provided. We will be having a bus stop in Klemme, Goodell, and Rowan at a site to be revealed in the forthcoming letter. Once you have received the letter, please email me if you are interested in your child participating. Once we have all of the names of students willing to commit to the program, a letter will be sent home with those that will be elgible to participate. My email is at the bottom of this memo. I will put this paragraph in the next few Monday memos to remind you to let me know if you are interested in your child participating.

 

 

As always, call with any questions/concerns!!

Have a great week!

 

Chris Mallen

Home: 444-3093    School:  444-4300 ext. 336

Email:  chris.mallen@bkcsd.org