Mallen's Monday Memo February 9, 2015

Monday Memo

February 9, 2015

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a great weekend! As I promised last week, I have attached a list of the students in my class, if you wish to send Valentines for your child. On Tuesday, we are going to the care center to play Valentine Bingo with them. We always look forward to that!! On Thursday it is Spring Picture Day. I just wanted to write the word springJ On Friday, we will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a movie and drinks are coming from Braydon’s mom and food is coming from Jordan’s mom. Thank-you so much for sending those for us!!

This week in reading we are working on our poetry unit. This is the end of our Problem Solvers theme, so we will be working on review skills in grammar and the spelling list is attached to this memo. We will be reading a variety of poems, listening to some poems, and writing a haiku poem, limerick and an acrostic poem. This week long unit is a lot of fun for the students! We will also be working on listening to some stories about some incredible African Americans and their contribution to our country. We will be working on some comprehension activities over these famous individuals as well. It fits in nicely with our Problem Solvers and unit and our upcoming unit on heroes. I will talk more about that when we finish this unit.

We are into our third module for math. This module is on multiplication and division. This week I hope to get through lessons 10 and 11. These lessons continue our multiplication by 4 digits and multiplication problem solving. We will continue our daily reviews and division sheets as well.

We have been doing some nice comprehension activities over the systems of the body. We should finish up on them on Tuesday. I will be sending home a study guide with the students on Tuesday, with the test on Wednesday.

Just a reminder that the students are to bring a Valentine box of any kind to collect their Valentines in. They can bring those any day this week. They can also bring their Valentines at any point this week.

Class List:  Jose Andrade, Merari Areans Carlos, Allison Barrus, William Bruggeman, Loel Cabellero, Raymundo Castillo, Kaylee Garcia, Trevor Goltz, Marcelino Gonzales, Crissy Hanson, Kaden Hanson, Ryan Hauert, Jordan Keul, Luis Moralles-Calles, Claudia Simonson, Braydon Warren, Ethan Wessels

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