Monday Memo
February 2, 2015
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! We are in a new
month!! My how time flies!!
This week in reading we are reading a story entitled “Sing
to the Stars”. As all of the characters in our stories have problems that need
to be solved, this story involves a little boy with a bad case of stage fright.
The story shows how he goes about solving this problem, with the help of a man
who is unable to see who has his own problems. Together, they are very
successful at solving their problems!! We will be working on the following
skills throughout this story:
Comprehension, Vocabulary, story structure, and structural analysis. Our grammar this week will be over comparing
with adjectives. Our spelling list has words
that follow the VCCV pattern and it is attached to this memo. The students will
also be working on their daily oral language sentences each day. The students
needed to have their book Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory read by January 30th. I gave them the entire
month to have that done. Once they passed the test (They have 3 times to take
it), I gave them their new book. I had a group of books in which they could
choose the one they wanted. This book is
due in two weeks on February 13th. I will give them another book at
that time to have done by February 28th. It is still two weeks but a
shorter month. 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 I hope to get through lessons 6 and 7. These lessons
continue our multiplication by 4 digits and multiplication problem solving. We
will continue our daily reviews and division sheets as well.
Last week we talked about the skeletal, muscular,
nervous, digestive, circulatory and respiratory systems. This week we will be
reviewing those systems with next week at some point having our test over them.
Reminders: KC
Spelling Bee is Friday, February 6 at 4:00 at Jacobson.
Early Dismissal: Wednesday 1:00
If you are thinking ahead, we will be exchanging
Valentines on Friday, February 13th.
Any time the week of the 9th you can feel free to send a
Valentine Box of your choice to school of your choice. You may send the valentines
at that time also. I will be sending home a list of students in the next Monday
Memo.
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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