Monday Memo

February 15, 2016

 

 

Dear Parents,

 

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Thank-you to our room parents for the awesome Valentine’s party they put on for us:  Mrs. Belstene, Mrs. Grissom, and Mrs. Willms!! I truly appreciate the time and effort put into putting on a party for us! We also finished our FAST testing and had spring pictures taken last week as well. Counselor Johnson was also with us this week. We enjoyed our time at the Belmond Care Center this week playing Valentine’s Jingo with them. It was a busy week for us!!

 

This is a review week for reading. We will be spending the next two weeks working on a novel that we will be doing together in class and writing some poetry. We will be reviewing our spelling words and our grammar skills as well. The students tested on their RC books today. I gave them their new book, which is a short poetry book. It is filled with fun poems and I think the students will enjoy reading it. It will be due February 29^th. I am also reading them a different book about African Americans and their contributions to our great country. We are also working on short biographies of famous African Americans, to focus on our comprehension skills.

 

We will be testing over the Earthquakes and Volcanoes unit in Science, tomorrow. I will be sending home their study guide tonight.

 

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.

 

Just a reminder that we are dismissed at 1:00 on Wednesday.

 

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