Monday Memo
April 27, 2015
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! We will be map
testing this week. We also are treated to a visit from Dirk Vanderlinden, from
the Belmond Independent, who will talk to us about what makes a good ad and
from that we will start next week on creating our ads!
This week in Reading we are finishing up on our
Nature: Friend or Foe unit. We will be
reviewing the concept of adverbs and prepositional phrases this week during our
grammar time. We have a spelling list that reviews words we have this unit and
it is attached to this memo. We will also be reading two different stories
working on the skills of comprehension, vocabulary, and will be reviewing
suffixes and prefixes and what their meaning adds to a word. The students are
to have read Sarah, Plain and Tall by
Thursday. I am excited to say that most students have gone on to read Skylark, Caleb’s Story and the next one
is More Perfect than the Moon. I had
lent that book out to a student last year and didn’t get it back and it is not
at our school library anymore. It is a good book, and it is at the Belmond
Library should any student wish to read it. Their next book for May, due May 15th,
is a library book of their choice.
In Math, we are working on interpreting division word
problems as a number of groups of a known and unknown size and interpreting and
finding whole number quotients and remainders to solve one step division word
problems. We will also be doing our map testing during part of our math time,
for three days, so we may not get all done. We will also be working on our
daily multiplication pages and our daily review.
We will be map testing for three of our science periods
this week. When we resume science, we will be working on the questions to
review our rocks and minerals unit. It has been fun taking a look at some of
the student’s rock collections!
As always, if you have any questions/concerns, please
feel free to give me a call!
Have a great week!
Chris Mallen
Chris Mallen
Phone:
515-444-3093 (Home) 515-444-4300
ext. 326 (School)
Email:
chris.mallen@bkcsd.org
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