Mrs.

Cook’s Surf Report

acook@mbusd.org Week of 10/31-11/4 mrsamycook.weebly.com
Please don’t throw your What We’re Learning:
child’s math test awayJ: Reading Workshop: This week, we continue our core literature
Chapter 3 math tests will be in book, Island of the Blue Dolphins, which is a 1960 children's
white envelopes on Tuesday. novel by American writer Scott O'Dell. This is a story of a 12-
Please ensure your child follows year-old girl named Karana, who is stranded alone for years
the new protocol and makes on an island off the California coast.
corrections. They are due by Writing Workshop: This week we will continue our Boxes and
Friday. Bullets unit: Personal and Persuasive Essays. This unit is
White Envelopes: designed to help students with the difficult and exhilarating
Please continue to review work work of learning to write well within an expository structure.
sent home in your child’s white e. Math: Chapter 4: 1-Digit Division- We will explore various
Also, please reinforce learning and strategies for division and spend time focusing on ways to
progress made vs. the grade. interpret remainders..
Although, we are always striving Science: Students will learn living things need water, air, and
to shoot for the stars…. having a resources from the land, and they try to live in places that
growth mindset is a strategy have the things they need.
we’re working on daily in room 23! Social Studies: This week, we will begin our unit on the First
XTRA Math: California's and CA's Ancient Past. Students will learn how the
It is highly recommended that first people got to California and what their lives were like,
your child is completing a daily exploring how life differed from region to region.
session of Xtra math. The session
takes approximately 3-5 minutes. Mark Your Calendars:
This should help your child with ü Monday, October 31st- Halloween Parade
memorization of facts, which is a
ü Monday, October 31st- Salt Dough Maps of California
skill that is necessary for the
ü 11/4-11/11- Richstone Thanksgiving Food Drive
level of math we are doing. We are
getting ready to begin long division ü Friday, November 11th- Veteran’s Day; No School
with remainders. Your child can ü 11/21-11/25- Thanksgiving Break
login to XTRA math through their
Clever account. Spelling Connections 10: Wordly Wise 5:
Halloween: JJJ 1. Forgot
1. Abrupt
Our annual parade will be on 10/31, 2. Bought
on the upper field. Please 3. Nor 2. Achieve
remember that there are no 4. Haul 3. Attempt
weapons allowed as part of your 5. Ought
child’s Halloween costume. 4. Contempt
6. Forest
Upcoming Quizzes/Tests: 7. Sport 5. Entertain
Renewable & Nonrenewable 11/4 8. Thought 6. Glimpse
Grammar 10 11/4 9. Daughter 7. Mock
Wordly Wise 5 11/4 10. Port
11. Sort 8. Persist
Island Blue Dolphins 11/4
12. Record 9. Persuade
Panther Praise Respectful: 13. Taught
Violet 10. Phase
14. Brought
Big Kahuna: 11. Quaint
Mia
15.
16.
Forth
Because Not 12. Recall Test 11/4
September Birthdays:
Ethan 10/26
17.
18.
Fought
Report
tested 13. Reject
Charlotte 10/30 19. Forty 14. Revise
20. Caught 15. Sensitive