Monday Memo
September 14, 2015
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend. We had a busy week
last week! The students have really settled into their routine and the talking
has gone way down! We had Counselor Johnson last week for the first time. She
spent some time just reminding the students of her role in our school… It also
seemed so different having had Monday off. I am excited that we get to go to
the care center on Friday! We will be going at the end of the day. We love
going there and meeting our new friends. We will be visiting them once a month.
It is always something the students look forward to and our friends at the care
center do as well!
This week in reading, we are going to be finishing our
unit on the Titanic. We will be working on the skills of comprehension,
vocabulary, syllabication, and working on the thesaurus. Tomorrow will be the
test over this story and the spelling test. We will start a new story on
Wednesday that is an excerpt taken from the Laura Ingalls Wilder book “By the
Shores of Silver Lake”. We will be working on vocabulary, comprehension, and
noting details this week. We do an SRA daily. I love these as it lets the
students move at their level, independently. The SRAs consist of a story and
then vocabulary and comprehension questions as well as different reading and
grammar skills for each story. The stories are literature rich and the students
like them. We also have grammar lessons each day. This week our grammar is over
common nouns. I will also be sending the new spelling words home with the
students on Wednesday, attached to their pre-test.
In Math we are working on place value, the value of
numbers and this week we get into greater than and less than. Each day we
independently work on our daily reviews. I love these because they help the
students work on skills that they will see on their Iowa Assessments. Daily
multiplication fact sheets are also done each day. Again, I thank-you so much
for working with your children each night on these important facts!! Especially
down the road, knowing these facts will help them enormously in Math!!
We are working on behavior adaptions this week and
focusing on the vocabulary of the chapter. We will be doing a study guide on
Thursday, with the test on Friday. Thank-you for going through the study guide
with them, as it helps enormously on the test! I will keep these tests until we
have conferences. I will send them home from then on.
Tomorrow, (the 15th) the students are to have
their first RC book quizzed on. This time they did a Judy Blume book. Once they
pass that test (they get 3 times), they will get their new book. The new book
is an Encyclopedia Brown book. I am having them read from the mystery genre.
This book is to be read by Sept. 30th. If they pass the quiz before
the 30th, I will give them another Encyclopedia Brown book. The
books are pretty short and so I look forward to some of them reading more than
just 1 in two weeks!!
Thank-you for signing their planner each night verifying
they read for 15 minutes the night before!!
As always, please call/email with any
questions/concerns!!
Sincerely,
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093
(Home) 444-4300 ext. 336 (School)
Email:
chris.mallen@bkcsd.org
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