Monday Memo
October 27, 2014
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a nice weekend. We were busy last
week working on our map testing. We do three tests that run about an hour each.
The tests are in math, reading, and language arts. That put us behind with a
few things so we will be catching up this week as well as starting a new story
in reading. On Friday, we will be parading our costumes over at the care center
and Belle Haven around 1:30, which should get us back to the school in time for
the annual school costume parade. The Fall party will start after the parade. I
thank Mrs. Andrade and Mrs. Gonzalez for the food and beverage for our party!!
In Reading this week, we will be starting a story
entitled The Very Important Day. This
story is about a family who studies hard to become American citizens. It is a
very enlightening story as to the process of becoming a citizen of America. We
will be working on the following skills this week: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Multiple meaning
words, reading a news article, and inferencing. We will continue working with
singular and plural nouns and the spellings that go with making singular nouns
plural nouns. Today we will be testing over last week’s spelling words, with
the spelling test for last week’s words being tomorrow. I will send home the
new words on Wednesday.
In Math, we will be working on solving additive comparing
word problems modeled with tape diagrams. I hope to also begin working on
solving multi-step word problems modeled with tape diagrams and assessing the
reasonableness of answers using rounding. We will also continue on our daily
reviews and our daily multiplication facts. They are getting better with those,
and I truly appreciate your time and effort in helping them work on them for at
least 5 minutes each night. It will help them in math enormously for the rest
of their school career!
We will be testing this week in Science. If things go as
planned, I will be sending home a study guide with the students over the animal
adaptations chapter on Wednesday, with the test being on Thursday. This has
been a very fun chapter talking about the difference between instincts and
learned behaviors and about the different adaptations animals have to survive.
As always, please call/email with any questions/concerns!
Have a great week!!
Chris Mallen
Email: cmallen@frontier.com
Phone: (Home) 444-3093
(School) 444-4300 ext. 336
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