Monday Memo
January 11, 2016
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great
weekend. We are back into the swing of things. The students enjoyed the Star
Lab that was set up here last week! It is always a neat experience for the
students to have the opportunity to view a glimpse of our solar system! This
week we have our counselor time on Wednesday. We will also be dismissing at
12:30 on Friday, for the teachers to get their grades finished for second
quarter and end of semester. It is also “National Hat Day”, so we are
encouraging the kids to wear hats on Friday!!
We are starting today on a
new unit in reading entitled “Problem Solvers”. This unit is about people who
had a problem to solve and the process they used to solve that problem. Our
first story is entitled “My Name is Maria Isabel” and it is about a girl who is
very shy and has a problem that her teacher doesn’t pronounce her name
correctly. This story is about how she handles this situation. We will be
working on the following skills this week:
Vocabulary, Comprehension, Predicting Outcomes, and Making
Inferences. Our grammar this week is
about the verb be. Our spelling words are attached to this memo.
Our social studies this
week is the next chapter over the Southeast Region. I will be sending home a
study guide on Thursday, with the test on Friday.
For Math, we are now
officially beginning our multiplication unit. The students really need to have
those facts memorized, so please encourage them to work on them at home. The
program uses the idea of area and perimeter to help understand the concept of
multiplication, within problem solving. Again, they really need to know their
facts for success to occur. We also continue to work on our daily review and
our multiplication page.
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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