Mallen's Monday Memo November 3, 2014

Monday Memo
November 3, 2014

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a great weekend. We ended our week with a costume parade at the Belmond Care Center/Belle Haven. They are always so good to us and we thank them for always thinking of us!! We think they are great too!! We came back over and had our annual Jacobson Costume Parade. I would like to thank Mrs. Gonzalez and Mrs. Andrade for the food/drinks!! We really enjoyed them!!  It is hard to believe that it is November already. It is starting to get pretty chilly outside!

This week we are finishing up on our American Stories theme. We will be reading a selection about Amelia Earhart. We will also be finishing up on our “Freedom:  What it means to Me” essay that we are writing for the annual VFW contest. I will send these essays in and each of the students will receive a dollar for participating as well as possible awards for the top three placers. This week is a review week of proper nouns, possessive nouns, singular nouns, common nouns and plural nouns. Our spelling words will be sent home tomorrow. I hope to get this review unit finished by the end of the week. I have given all of the students the book The Jacket by Andrew Clements to read by November 15th. It is a short book, so hopefully they will have it done before the 15th and then can read a library RC book before the 15th. The requirement is to have one quiz passed by the 15th to receive a 3. To get a 4, they need to read and pass at least one more by then. I will give them a new book on the 15th. Thanks for having them read at least 15 minutes each night!!

We will be finishing up on our first module for our new math series. Next week, we should be starting our second module which will have us working with the metric system. We also do daily reviews in math and our daily multiplication sheets. I appreciate you working with your child on these each night!! It is paying off!!

We tested last week over our Animal Adaptations chapter in Science. This week we will be working on the plant growth and adaptations chapter. We will be talking about life support for plants, the functions of plant parts, and plant life cycles.

Thanks for all you do to help me with your child’s education! As always, please call with any questions or concerns!!

Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone:  Home:  444-3093   School:  444-4300 ext 336
Email:  chris.mallen@bkcsd.org



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