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
Chris Mallen
Phone:
515-444-3093 (Home) 515-444-4300
ext. 326 (School)
Email:
chris.mallen@bkcsd.org
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