Monday Memo
February 16, 2015
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! Thank-you to Jordan
and Brandon’s mom for the cookies and drinks for our Valentine’s party!! The
kids truly appreciated them!!
The first book for February was due to be tested on
today. I am still struggling to get everyone to pass these quizzes and actually
read the books. The new book for February that I am giving them is a Sharon
Creech poem book. We spent last week talking about poems so I thought I would
use that genre for their next book. It is a short read so I am hoping they will
have it done by the time we leave for spring break. I will be sending them home
with a library RC book for them to read over break and to have read by March 15th.
Again, some of the students struggle reading, all the more reason for them to
read each night. I encourage you to read to those struggling students as well
so they can hear good literature. Thanks for your help with that!!
This week in reading we are beginning our “Heroes” theme.
This theme is perfect for the month of February as we will be learning about
African American Heroes throughout the next few weeks. We will be reading a
story this week entitled “Happy Birthday Dr. King”. This story is great in how
it talks about the effect some brave African Americans had on our country. We
will be working on comprehension, vocabulary, cause and effect, and sequencing
for this story. Our grammar lessons are on subject pronouns this week and our
spelling list is attached to this memo.
We are into our third module for math. This module is on multiplication
and division. This week we will be working on solving two-step word problems,
including multiplicative comparison, and using multiplication, addition, or
subtraction to solve multi-step word problems.
We will also work on our daily reviews and daily fact sheets. With that,
it is imperative the students learn those multiplication facts! Some are doing
very well, but for those that haven’t been practicing them, it makes math take
so much more time… Thanks for helping them study those!!
We tested over our Human Systems unit in Science on
Thursday, I sent the results home with them. We are starting today with the
Southwestern Region of the United States.
If you have ever been to that region, please feel free to send pictures,
brochures… from there!!
Have a great 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
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