Monday Memo
February 1, 2016
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great
weekend! Well, our day off last week put us behind so we will be playing some
catch up this week. I have a couple of reminders. We dismiss early on Wednesday
at 1:00 for our inservice. I would also like to invite you to the KC Spelling
Bee that will be held this Friday at Jacobson at 4:00. It is always a fun event
for the kids and I encourage them to come and try out their spelling skills. I
have given them permission slips and practice spelling lists. They will need to
either bring those permission slips to me or they can bring them with them to
the event. I look forward to lots of participants!!
Our story this week for
our problem solvers unit is entitled “The Last Dragon”. It is the story of a
boy who is visiting Chinatown with his aunt. While there, he sees an old dragon
costume in a window. The story is about how he finds people to help him bring
this dragon back to its former glory. We will be working on the following skills
this week: Comprehension, Vocabulary,
Story Structure and the use of context clues. The grammar skills are over
adjectives this week. My plan is to be testing over last week’s words today and
then the pre-test for spelling this week’s words will be tomorrow. The test
will then be next Monday. Weather depending…
I gave the students their
new book Misty of Chincoteague. They
are to read a chapter each night and I read the next chapter the following day.
For some, this is a more challenging book. I appreciate your willingness to
read with your child a chapter a night,
if needed.
We are studying volcanoes
and earthquakes this week in Science. Ask your child to name the layers of the
earth.
We are also reading a few
stories about earthquakes and volcanoes.
For Math, we are
continuing on our multiplication problem solving with area and perimeter. Have
your children keep working on their facts so that they are memorized. That will
help them enormously with this problem solving unit. We keep working on our daily
reviews and our daily multiplication practice.
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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