Monday Memo
November 2, 2015
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a
great weekend! What a busy week we had last week! We didn’t get through our
Social Studies chapter so our test will
be this week, with a study guide coming home with them Tuesday and the test
being on Wednesday. Last week we went to
the care center on Monday with our computers and made door signs through the
use of the software, Inspiration. We also paraded our Halloween costumes there
on Friday. We paired up with the first graders and did a computer activity with
them. We printed that out for them as well as for our care center friends. We
had an anti-bullying assembly on Monday. We were treated to some 6th
graders putting on three Reader’s Theatre plays for us!! We had our Halloween
party on Friday and thank our room parents: Norma Gonzalez, Jon Swenson, and
Holly Dirksen for the wonderful party they put on for the kids! We also
finished our Oct. 30th RC book and quizzed on that. The students
received their new books on Friday. Thanks for having them read for 20 minutes
a night!!
We will be starting a
story this week, entitled A Very Important Day. This is a great story
about a few families celebrating the day that they became American citizens! We
will be working on the following skills this week: Vocabulary, Comprehension, Multiple Meaning
Words, Journal Writing, and Newspaper article writing. Our grammar skill this
week is working on possessive singular and plural nouns. Our spelling words for
this week are attached to this memo. We continue working on SRA each day as
well. They are great for all reading skills the students need.
We are getting closer to
the end of our first module in math. We will continue working this week on
subtracting and regrouping numbers. We also will continue to work on our daily
reviews and our daily multiplication page. Thanks, again, for having your child
work on those each night! We are starting to do weekly timed tests for
multiplication, so working on them is going to start paying off for them!
We didn’t get to this last
week but we will this week: 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! Finally, a normal week for us to work on these! As I said
above, I will send home the study guide Tuesday, with the test being on Friday.
As always, please feel
free to call me with any questions/concerns!
Have a great week!
Chris Mallen
Phone: Home:
444-3093 School: 444-4300 Ext. 336
Email: chris.mallen@bkcsd.org
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