Monday Memo
September 21, 2015
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend!! We had another busy
week last week. We completed our second Science test. I have the tests in their
files for conferences. You can ask them their score as they know what it is.
There were some really awesome tests!! We enjoyed our time at the Belmond
Health Care Center!! They are always so good to us and playing Bingo with new
friends is always fun!! I encourage the kids to continue their relationships
with their new friends and stop by and say hi when they can. We will be going
there one time a month this year!! This week is Homecoming week. We will be
watching the parade on Friday!
We will be finishing our Laura Ingalls Wilder story. They
are reading an excerpt from the book By the Shores of Silver Lake. This
week we will be working on noting details and completing some comprehension
activities. The test over this story will be tomorrow. We will start a two week
chapter on the genre of mysteries. The students will be listening to the story Encyclopedia
Brown: Boy Detective. We will be doing activities over this story. We will
be learning some special mystery words and writing a mystery story for our
writing activity. Our spelling words will be sent home with their pre-test on
Wednesday. The grammar lessons are all review for the next two weeks, going
over subjects and predicates, kinds of sentences, nouns, and compound subjects.
A lot of comprehension will be worked on throughout these two weeks as well.
For Science, we will be talking about plant adaptations.
It is a very interesting chapter that the students really seem to enjoy. Once
we finish this chapter, we will be starting Social Studies, where we talk about
the regions of the United States. More information to follow in our Monday
Memo.
With math, I want to continue to emphasize the importance
of working on their multiplication facts. It will truly help them with their
common core math. We will be working on rounding off numbers this week. I
typically like to do the homework here at school so I can catch them if they
are making any errors. However, some lessons I will send home as homework as I
feel they understand exactly what they need to do. The homework is exactly like
the problem set and exit ticket that I send home. If they have questions, you
can refer to those two pages for help. They should be able to do it on their
own. If not, we will be reviewing it during class. They just need to try.
On the back of this Monday Memo is an invitation to sign
up to be a room parent. I appreciate in advance any help you can give me with
this. I thank-you for your time and effort!!
Homecoming Week Attire:
Monday: 4th
graders wear yellow
Tuesday: Spirit
Day
Wednesday: PJ Day
Thursday: Throwback Thursday (choose a decade and dress
from that)
Friday: White Out
As always, please call with any questions/concerns!!
Chris Mallen
Phone:
(Home) 444-3093 School:
444-4300 ext. 336
If you would be interested in serving as a room mother in
any of the following capacities, just let me know and I will get the list put
together and sent home with your child, who is doing what. Once you have names
and numbers, you can contact each other. I have my email on the bottom and you
can email me what you would be interested in or give me a call, or just write
me a note. THANK-YOU!!!
Fall Party: October 30th (Parade starts at
2:00)
Winter Party:
December 18th (2:30)
Valentine’s Party:
February 12 (2:30)
Thank-you again!!!
Chris Mallen
Phone: 444-3093
(Home) 444-4300 ext 336 (School)
Email:
chris.mallen@bkcsd.org
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