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Cook’s Surf Report

acook@mbusd.org Week of 1/9-1/13 mrsamycook.weebly.com
Thank you: What We’re Learning:
Thank you so much for the Reading Workshop: This week, students will begin reading our
thoughtful holiday gift. I love the core literature novel called, The One and Only Ivan. Ivan is an
frame and candle from Gum Tree. easygoing gorilla. Students will continue to apply all they have
Also, the Tin Roof and Nordstrom learned from Reading Workshop to Ivan. We will focus on story
gift cards are very much comprehension and use our detective skills to interpret and
appreciated. More importantly,
analyze story elements.
thank you for being such a Writing Workshop: This week we will reflect on 2022 and write
supportive group of parents. I hope
about our goals for 2023!
you enjoyed the winter holidays with
Math: Ch. 6 Fraction Equivalence and Comparison- Students will
your loved ones.
California Folk Dance: explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n ×
We will begin our PTA Folk Dance b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the
Workshop with the Music Center number and size of the parts differ
Teaching Artist, Youriy, January 9th. Science: Students will learn that a variety of hazards result
This workshop will be every Monday from natural processes (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic
through March. Fourth grade was eruptions, severe weather, floods, coastal erosion).
lucky to have been selected to take Social Studies: Students will become an expert on one California
part in this artist teacher Native American tribe. Students will create a museum exhibition
partnership again this year. Folk and Keynote to share their knowledge of their tribes shelter,
dance teaches the students about food, religion, artistic expression, and other interesting facts.
the culture, work, traditions, and exploring how life differed from region to region.
lifestyle of those who settled
Western America and how their Mark Your Calendars:
traditions influenced the creation of ü 12/23-1/6- Winter Recess
new dances. The program will ü Monday, January 16th- No School; Martin Luther King Day
culminate with a performance for ü 1/23-1/27- Parent-Teacher Conferences (12:40 dismissal
parents on on Tuesday, March 27th each day except Wednesday, which dismisses at 1:30)
more information will follow in ü Friday, February 10th- Pantherthon
March. This is all made possible by
our wonderful PTA!
Parent-Teacher
Spelling Connections 17: Wordly Wise 9:
1. badge
Conferences: 1. advantage
I’m looking forward to meeting with 2. gym
you in January. The week of 1/23 will 3. rigid 2. astonish
be minimum days (12:40 dismissal; 4. gem 3. confirm
except on Wednesday) to provide 5. baggage
time to complete these 4. distant
6. range
conferences. Here is the SUG link:
7. dodge 5. founder
Click Here! 8. package 6. hamlet
9. engine 7. host
Upcoming Quizzes/Tests:
10. cottage
Spelling unit 17 1/13
11. gigantic 8. misgiving
Ivan quiz 1/13
12. edge 9. parch
Panther Praise Dependable: 13. gentle
Ben 10. prospect
14. strange
Big Kahuna: 15. ridge 11. scarce
Liam 16. cabbage test 1/13 12. shrewd Test 1/20
January Birthdays: 17. bridge 13. sole
Violet 1/5 18. hedge
19. village 14. torment
Lily 1/22
20. judge 15. typical