Monday Memo
May 5, 2014
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! Last week we had a
lot of things going on! We enjoyed the “Go the Distance Day” with Nicole
Christians. She came and did a Rumba session with the Pre K-6th grade for half an hour.
This was a lot of fun for the kids! I enjoyed it as well! I think the kids
enjoyed watching me attempt to follow the steps. I tried is all I can sayJ We also were treated
to Dirk Vanderlinden coming and talking to us about putting our ads together
for the Belmond Independent. We realized that this 4th grade project
has been going on for over 20 years. What the project involves is the 4th
graders grouping together and designing an ad for a local business. If they
aren’t familiar with the business they are encouraged to go visit it and talk
to the store keepers as to what they would like to see in their ad. A phone
call can also be done. We will be creating our ads during school, but
investigating the business, needs to be done while out of school. This is a
project that is really fun for the kids and truly shows their creativity!
For Reading this week, we are working on a story entitled
“Wildfires”. We will be talking about how wildfires can help and destroy land.
We will be working on vocabulary, comprehension, main idea and supporting
details, this week. Our grammar lesson is on writing with adverbs and also over
the adverbs good and well. Our spelling words consist of words with unusual
spellings. We are a day behind due to having “Go the Distance Day”. So, today
the students got their new spelling words and will still have their spelling
test on Friday. However, they took their reading test today and will start the
new story tomorrow. So, the spelling words are still attached to this memo.
For math, this week we will be working on using number
sense to compare fractions. We are also at the end of this short chapter. We
will be doing a diagnostic checkpoint over this unit, a book chapter test and
the official Chapter 9 test will be on Thursday. We will be starting chapter 10
on Friday. I will be giving you information over that on our next Monday Memo.
Social Studies has us working on the Southeastern Region
of the United States. We will be taking the test over that on Wednesday, with
the study guide going home with your child on Tuesday night. We will continue
on Thursday over the Southeastern Region focusing on the Native American tribes
living in this area.
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!
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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