Monday Memo
May 19, 2014
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great
weekend! We were so lucky to have been invited to the Belmond Health Care
Center for lunch on Wednesday. That was so much fun!! The meal was wonderful
and we thank our friends for all they have done for us!! It has been a great
year with them! We are going on June 2 to play Bingo with them as our last
adventure with them had to be postponed. This week we also finished up on our
Map Tests. Each of the three tests we took, took around an hour and a half to
finish, so we didn’t get as far as I had planned, on our reading. Amy Bates,
from the library, will be here tomorrow to tell the students about their
wonderful summer reading program. She always does an awesome presentation for
the kids! Our elementary track meet will be Thursday at 9:00. That is another
thing the students look forward to!!
For Reading this week, we
are working on a story entitled “Skylark”. We will actually be reading a
chapter from the book. I have read the series of books (The Sarah Plain and
Tall series) to them. They thoroughly enjoyed those books. This is one of the
chapters from the book Skylark. The
story talks about the extreme drought that was faced in Kansas. It is how they
survived that period of time. We will be working on vocabulary, comprehension,
and sequencing this week. We will be working with the same spelling and grammar
lessons as we began last week, due to our Map tests, that we didn’t get
through.
For math, this week we will
be working on finishing our unit on fractions. We will be testing over this
unit on Wednesday. We will be starting our new unit on adding and subtracting
fractions this week as well.
Social Studies has us
continuing to work on the Southeastern Region of the United States. We should
be ready to take a test over Chapter 4, on Friday. I will send a study guide
home with the students on Thursday.
The students have received
their last May book from me. They will be due to be tested on by June 2nd.
That way, if they need more than one time to take the test, they will have that
time.
Thank-you for returning the
summer school note with your child! A letter will be coming home with your
child in the near future letting you know if your child will be selected to be
in the summer school program!
This will be my last Monday
Memo of the year. I have included some dates/times of special things we have
going on:
May 22:
Elementary Track Meet at 9:00
May 26: No
School
May 28: Fishing
trip from 8:20-10:00 (Dress accordingly)
May 30: Music
Man Square Field Trip (The students will be eating the school’s sack lunch.) We
leave at 10:30 and return at 2:45.
June 2: Care
Center at 2:00 to play Bingo
June 4: Last day
of school
It has been such a pleasure
teaching this outstanding group of students. I will miss each and every one of
them!! I look for them all to have rewarding futures! Keep them reading this
summer and always. I would also recommend they practice those multiplication
facts from time to time this summer to keep them right in their memory.
Thank-you for sharing your children with me and thank-you for all the help you
have given me and them throughout the year!!
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
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