Monday Memo
October 19, 2015
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! We had a busy week
last week! We had Counselor Johnson on Monday. She talked to the kids about
bullying and they decorated sacks for Fareway with rules about bullying. Some
4-H students came to talk to the kids about 4-H. They gave a great presentation
and sent some literature about 4-H home with the kids. We finished Bound for Oregon this week and the
students got a new book, The Jacket,
by Andrew Clement. Again, for those that need help reading it, thanks for
reading a page to them, they read a page… Andrew Clement is a great writer of
fiction stories and this story has a great lesson in it! For some of the kids,
they will have this book read in no time and can go to the library and check
out a book. This book is due to be tested by October 30th. I will be
giving them a new book that day, which will be due on Nov. 15th.
We will be starting a story this week, entitled Tanya’s
Reunion. This is a great story that touches on the generations of a family
and the effect that they have on Tanya’s life. We will be working on the
following skills this week:
Comprehension, Vocabulary, Words with root/spect in them, Making
inferences, and some compare/contrast. Our grammar this week will be over
singular and plural nouns. Our spelling words have the short oo and long oo
sounds in them and are attached to this memo. We also do a daily SRA that you
see come home each day. As I said at conferences, you want to see 80% on them.
If they have a 90% or better, they get a
sticker on their chart.
We will be continuing to work with standard algorithms in
Math this week. We will be adding and subtracting numbers. We will also be
doing our daily reviews and a fact sheet each day. Thanks for working with your
children on knowing those facts as they will really appreciate that when we get
to that unit!!
We are finishing up on the Northeastern Region of the
United States in Social Studies this week.
I will be sending home a study guide over this chapter tonight, with the
test being on tomorrow. Thanks for your help with your child studying for this
test! On Mondays, the students will be bringing home DOGS (Daily Oral
Geography) that will be due on Friday. They can use any resource to answer the
few geography questions. Those that hand it in on time, have their names on it,
and get it perfect, will be in a drawing for a prize each Friday. Thanks for
looking for that and helping with that!
Reminder that we have an early out on Wednesday!
As always, please feel free to call me with any
questions/concerns! I look forward to meeting with you at our conference time!!
Have a great week!
Chris Mallen
Phone: Home: 444-3093
School: 444-4300 Ext. 336
Email:
chris.mallen@bkcsd.org
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