Monday Memo
December 7, 2015
Dear Parents,
Last week was sure a fast
week with no school on Monday, late start Tuesday, early out Wednesday and
dress rehearsal on Thursday. Within that, we had a few extra music practices to
prepare for the concert, so we didn’t get very far on what I had planned for
last week. So, this week we will be doing a lot of last week’s work. Thanks for
attending the Christmas concert! The students did a great job!!
We will be finishing up on
our Cendrillon story this week. We
will also begin a new story that we will finish next week entitled Heat Wave. This story is also one of our
“amazing” stories about the effects of a heat wave on a farm. We will be
working on the following skills with this story: Fantasy/Realism, the comparing/contrasting,
and reading a diagram, as well as
vocabulary and comprehension. We will be finishing this story next week. Our
grammar skills with this story are on using past tense verbs. The spelling list
will be sent home with Wednesday, with the spelling test next Tuesday.
We are working on our
second module in Math. This module has us working on conversions using the
metric system. We also do a daily review and a multiplication sheet each day.
Keep working on those important facts each night.
Social Studies is what we
will be working on this week! We will be working on the Southeastern Region of
the United States. As always, if you have any artifacts or brochures from that
area, please feel free to send it with your child and they can share it with
us!
Just a reminder that 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!
As it is Christmas, the
giving time of year, I would like to do a few things. First, I would love for
the students to “Pay it Forward” and do something nice for someone. Maybe
shovel someone’s sidewalk, deliver cookies to an elderly neighbor, read a story
to an elderly neighbor, visit the care center and talk with some of our new
friends… the list is endless. If they do that, I am going to have them share
what they have done with the class. I love hearing of the awesome things they
do!! Hopefully that will inspire them to
do even more!! If possible, can you also send $2.00 with the students? I would
like to do a cheer fund ornament from the class. Thank-you for all of that!!
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
