Monday Memo
January 19, 2015
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! It is nice to have
such pleasant temperatures for a change!!
This week in reading we are reading a story entitled
“Marvin of the Great North Woods”. As all of the characters in our stories have
problems that need to be solved, Marvin does as well. Due to an influenza
epidemic back in the early 1900’s, Marvin has to relocate to Minnesota. The
story talks about how he overcomes language barriors, and learns some new
skills. We will be working on the following skills throughout this story: Comprehension, Vocabulary, Questioning Techniques,
and note taking. Our grammar skills are over irregular verbs. Our spelling list
is attached to this memo. The students will also be working on their daily oral
language sentences each day. I have given all of the students the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to
have read by January 30th. I am really asking for your help with
this. I have so many of the students that aren’t passing the quizzes and some
that have admitted they aren’t even reading the book. As the only homework I
give them, it is my hope that they will take this seriously and read each
night. I know that a lot of the students can’t read the book I have given them,
but as I have said before, please read it with/to them for 15 minutes a night.
They need to be exposed to good literature. I have them reading books at their
lexile throughout the day, for those with lower lexile levels. Thank-you for
your help with this!!
We are into our third module for math. This module is on
multiplication and division. This week we will be finishing our third lesson
and working on our fourth lesson. It is about interpreting and representing
patterns when multiplying by 10, 100, and 1000 in arrays and numerically. We
continue to work on our daily reviews and a daily division page. Keep working
on their facts each night. I have 5 students who have passed the 5 minute 100
point multiplication test. I need everyone to pass that. It is just a fact that
you need to know your multiplication facts to make math a much easier process.
We will be finishing our lessons on the southeastern
region of the United States. I will be sending a study guide home on Tuesday.
We will be taking the Social Studies test over chapter 4 on Wednesday.
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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