Monday Memo
October 5, 2015 and October 12, 2015
(Tuesday, October 6, 2015)
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! We had a busy week
last week! We tested over our Science unit and I kept the results to share with
you during conferences. We completed our review week over our first theme and
finished our Mysteries genre activities. This is a strange week. No school
today as we prepare for conferences. We have an early dismissal on Tuesday and
Thursday at 2:00 for our conferences and no school on Friday. We will try to
get as much in as we can during these few days.
We will be starting a new theme with our reading entitled
“American Stories”. This is a fun theme that I try to integrate the genre of
historical fiction. The students’ RC books are entitled Bound for Oregon, which
is a wonderful historical fiction book. I am reading the odd chapters to them
and they are to read an even chapter each night. I will be reading chapter 7
today and they are to read chapter 8 tonight…
Our first story is about a family that is from Mexico and
migrates to Iowa in the summers to help with farm work. The story is about how
he learns to speak some English. I have heard that the town this story takes
place in is Hampton, but I have nothing to verify that. Anyway, we will be
working on the following skills throughout this story: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Drawing
Conclusions, and Contractions. Our grammar skills will be over proper nouns.
Our spelling words have the ou and schwa o sounds and are stapled to this memo.
We will also be writing a personal narrative throughout these two weeks.
We will be working 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 starting on the Northeastern Region of the United
States in Social Studies this week! We tested over our plant unit on Friday, and
I kept the results to show you at conferences. If you or your family has ever
visited the Northeastern Region and have some artifacts, brochures, pictures,
etc… of this region, we would love for your child to share them!
In the next two weeks, we will be having our Healthiest
Walk on Oct. 7th. We also get to have our librarian come and work
with the kids on some computer skills!!
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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