Monday Memo
January 5, 2014
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great, long Christmas break! I hope
everyone had time to reflect on the year that was and on the upcoming year! As
I reflect on 2014, having your children in my class was one of my highlights.
Thank-you for sharing them with me!!
Thank-you to Merari’s mom for the drinks she sent for the
students for the Christmas party! We really appreciated them!! Another
thank-you to Will’s mom for sending treats for the kids for the party. Mrs.
Clark made the kids some party bags as well and we truly thank her for doing
that for us as well!!
We are starting a new unit in Reading. This new theme is
entitled “Problem Solvers” and has a great deal of stories involving situations
where people are in a situation and are able to come out of it. Our first story
is entitled “My Name is Maria Isabella”. It is a fun story about how a young
girl solves a problem she has. We will be working on vocabulary and
comprehension as well as predicting outcomes, symbolism, and making inferences. Our grammar this week
is over completing with the different forms of the verb b. Our spelling words
are attached to this memo.
We have begun our third module. As it has 37 lessons, we
will be on this module for some time. The entire module is over multiplication
and division. Just a reminder that this program assumes that the students have
memorized their multiplication facts. As I have said since the first day of
school, it is so important that they learn these. It will help them so much
throughout this module. That is the best way you can help them right now!!
I hope for us to be able to test over the second part of
the Southeastern Region of the United States by next Tuesday. I will refer to
it in the next Monday Memo. Right now we are talking about the enormous amount
of history in this region and about the economy.
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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