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Cook’s Surf Report

acook@mbusd.org Week of 9/26-9/30 mrsamycook.weebly.com
PTA & MBEF Donations: What We’re Learning:
Together we are Pacific strong! Reading Workshop: This week, we will continue our first unit in
We appreciate any donations that Reading Workshop called Interpreting Characters: The Heart
you can give during these tough of the Story (fiction). Comprehension strategies will be
times. Our schools need it more modeled while I read The Tiger Rising aloud to the class
than ever. Click here to join: Join during our mini-lessons.
PTA Here MBEF Suggested Writing Workshop: This week, we will continue our writing
Donations Per Child: • PTA $415 •
workshop unit called The Arc of the Story: Writing Realistic
MBEF $2000 • Minimum donation
Fiction. The first bend entails generating ideas in our
$15 Join MBEF here
notebooks by observing the world around us and creating
I am a bit competitive, and I
stories we wish existed.
would love to be one of the first
teachers to reach 100% Math: Chapter 2- Multiply by 1-Digit Numbers- Students will
membership participation in the develop understanding and fluency with multi-digit
PTA! :-) WE ARE in 2nd place AT 69% multiplication, and developing understanding of dividing to find
Student Council: quotients involving multidigit dividends.
Calling all 4th and 5th Grade Science: Students will learn the faster a given object is
Panthers interested in running for moving, the more energy it possesses. Energy can be moved
student council! Please hold all of from place to place by moving objects or through sound,
your questions until the light, or electric currents.
information meeting on Social Studies: Students will learn about California’s amazing
September 29th. geographical features.
Important Dates: All meetings and
Mark Your Calendars:
items are due in room 19
ü Friday, September 23rd- Movie Night 5:00 pm
9/29- Mandatory Informational
ü Monday, September 26th- Rosh Hashanah; No School
Meeting at 2:45 ü Wednesday, October 5th- Yom Kippur; No School
10/3- Intent Forms Due by 3:00 ü Friday, October 7th- PTA Membership drive ends
10/7- Speech Due by 3:00 to ü Monday, October 31st- Halloween Parade
10/10- Posters due by 3:00
10/14- Elections in the Cafeteria at Spelling Connections 5: Wordly Wise 3:
1. Eyes
8:30 AM 1. Approach
Bring Your Parent to PE: 2. Icicle
The week of October 17th- 3. Tight 2. Burrow
21st is bring your parent to 4. Climb 3. Cease
PE work. Our class has PE 5. Umpire
4. Destructive
Tuesday and Friday from 6. Highway
1:55-2:45 7. Idea 5. Drowsy
8. Flight 6. Famished
Upcoming Quizzes/Tests: 9. Cycle 7. Forecast
Spelling unit 5 9/30 10. Fright
Grammar 5 9/30 11. Iron 8. Hibernate
CA Geography all week 12. Slight Test 9/30 9. Migrate Test 10/7
13. Tiny 10. Nestle
Panther Praise- Inclusive: 14. Higher
Carter 15. Shy 11. Observe
Big Kahuna: 16. Hire 12. Prepare
Lily 17. Buy 13. Reduce
September Birthdays: 18. Might
19. Reply 14. Severe
Sophie 9/9
20. Title 15. Venture