Mallen's Monday Memo May 18, 2015

Monday Memo
May 18, 2015

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a great weekend! This will be the last Monday Memo for the year. I have tried to include all the information I could think of in this note. We enjoyed Amy Bates  visiting us from the library and talking about the wonderful library program that will be held there!! I encourage everyone to sign up for it! Thank-you to our friends at the Belmond Care Center for treating us to a fabulous lunch on Friday!! That is so awesome that they do that for us every year!! This week we are looking forward to our track meet that will be at 9:00 on Thursday!! We are busy!!

This week in Reading, we will be working on the book Harriet the Spy. It is such a fun book and a great way to end our year. The afternoon of the last day of school, we will be watching the video over this great story!! Our week will have us listening to the story, reading the story, and doing activities over the story. I gave everyone their last RC book of the year, on Friday. Those are due the last day of school, and we will test over them that day, unless they read it sooner, in which case they can quiz early!! I still have a few that need some good scores from their RC quizzes!

In Math, we are going to finally finish module 3! We will be testing over this module this week as well. It will be our final week of math as we will be on our field trip on Tuesday and watching our movie on the last day.

I will be sending home a study guide over our fossils unit  on Thursday, with the test on Friday. It will be our final science grade for the year.

The last day of school, my plan is for the students to bring their own lunch. We will eat in our classroom, do the movie… They can bring whatever you would like for them to bring for their lunch. I thank-you for that!

It has been a pleasure having your children this year! They are all such kind, caring students! I wish them all the best in fifth grade!! I thank-you for sharing them with me!!

Reminders:
May 21:  9:00 Track Meet
May 26th:  Field Trip to Music Man Square
May 27th:  Last Day of School. The students are to bring a sack lunch that day.

As always, if you have any questions/concerns, please feel free to give me a call!


Have a great week!
Chris Mallen
Phone:  515-444-3093 (Home)   515-444-4300 ext. 326 (School)

Email:  chris.mallen@bkcsd.org

Mallen's Monday Memo May 7, 2015

Monday Memo
May 4, 2015

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a great weekend! We enjoyed our visit from Dirk Vanderlinden. He talked to the kids about what makes a good ad. We thank him for his time with us! We will be spending some time preparing for our fine arts festival which will be held Thursday night. We have counselor time two times this week due to her not being able to meet with the kids last month because of our testing. We also get to go fishing on Monday morning! It will be an eventful week for us!!

This week in Reading, we have finished all of the themes in our reading series!! Great accomplishment!! Our spelling will look a little different this week. We will be working on some spelling skills over a poem entitled “Ode to Spring”. So there won’t be a spelling “list” anymore this week.  Our grammar this week will consist of us doing grammar sentences which review the concepts we have learned all year long. We will also continue with our DOL (Daily Oral Language). For reading time this week we will be working on creating and publishing our ads for the Belmond Independent. The students chose their library books last week and those will be due on May 15th.

In Math, we are going to be continue to work 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. I still have a few students who truly need to work on memorizing their multiplication facts! That will make division so much easier for them! We also work on a daily division sheet along with our daily reviews.

Three of our Science days this week will be spent with Counselor Johnson. On Thursday,  I will be sending home a study guide for the Science test that will be on Friday.

As always, if you have any questions/concerns, please feel free to give me a call!

Reminders for the week:
May 7:  Fine Arts Festival
May 8:  Fishing with Mrs. Kern

Have a great week!
Chris Mallen
Phone:  515-444-3093 (Home)   515-444-4300 ext. 326 (School)

Email:  chris.mallen@bkcsd.org