Mallen's Monday Memo January 26

Monday Memo

January 26, 2015

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a great weekend! We enjoyed our PBIS assembly last week! Our class has done a great job with their behavior throughout the year!!

This week in reading we are reading a story entitled “The Last Dragon”. As all of the characters in our stories have problems that need to be solved, Peter does as well. Peter is staying with his grandmother in Chinatown. In a store, he sees an old dragon. It is really in bad shape, but he really wants it. He solves the problem of paying for it and getting it put back together. We will be working on the following skills throughout this story:  Comprehension, Vocabulary, using the prefixes pre, con and com, using the suffixes ful, less and ly and using a venn diagram to compare and contrast. Our grammar this week will be over adjectives.  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 30^th. 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 hope to get through lessons 5 and 6. We will be talking about multiplying multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000 by single digits and we will be multiplying two digit multiples of 10 by 2 digit multiples of 10 using an area model. As I continue to say, please keep having your students work on their multiplication facts!! It really is important that they know these, not only for our math right now, but for their future math as well. We will also continue on our daily reviews and our daily division practice pages.

We will be starting on our next unit in Science. We will be talking about the systems of the body. We don’t get real in depth with them, we just learn the different organs involved in each system and talk about that. We will be hitting a variety of systems this week.

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