Mrs.

Cook’s Surf Report

acook@mbusd.org Week of 5/22-5/26 mrsamycook.weebly.com
Holocaust Museum Field What We’re Learning:
Trip: Reading Workshop: This week, we will begin our next core
Wednesday, May 24th all 4th literature book called By the Great Horn Spoon. This
adventurous story is set during the California Gold Rush
graders will attend a 2nd field
which correlates to our social studies curriculum.
trip. Thank you MBEF who Writing Workshop: We are working on responses to literature
gave us a grant so we can go from Number the Stars and By the Great Horn Spoon.
on this wonderful field trip. Math: Chapter 13- Students will learn about perimeter and
Year End Activities: area and apply the formulas to solve application based
Be sure to mark your problems.
calendars! As you can see, we Science: Students will learn that a great deal of light travels
have a lot of activities to through space to Earth from the sun and from distant
stars.
wrap up a wonderful school
Social Studies: We will continue learning about the GOLD RUSH!
year. We will need lots of
We will discuss the 3 routes to gold and the hardships gold
volunteers for Beach Day. We seekers faced. Students will choose which route they would
have also started practicing have taken!
for our Gold Dust or Bust Mark Your Calendars:
musical. The students are ü Wednesday, May 24th- Field trip to Holocaust Museum
excited to perform this ü Friday, May 26th- Literacy Bowl Quiz
musical for you! Students ü Monday, May 29th- Memorial Day; No School
have also received their ü Wednesday, June 7th- Volunteer Thank You Assembly
“Expert Card” for Walk ü Monday, June 12th- Walk Through California 8:30-11:00
Through California. They are ü Tuesday, June 13th- Gold Dust or Bust Musical 9:30-10:30
to memorize the definition ü Wednesday, June 14th- Beach Day (North side of pier)
and research the answer to ü Thursday, June 15th- Last Day of School 12:40 dismissal
the question. They are
required to restate the
Spelling Connections 34: Wordly Wise 17:
1. tablecloth
question in their. answer 2. everyone 1. apt
during the presentation. The 3. nearby 2. blossom
students have a copy of 4. outdoors 3. bough
their expert card at school 5. high school
and were also given a copy to 6. anywhere 4. content
take home. 7. flashlight 5. detest
8. air mail
t 6. dusk T
Upcoming Quizzes/Tests:
9. whenever
No d 7. extinguish est
5/ 2
10. driveway
e
Wordly Wise 17 5/26
Gold Rush 5/25
11. sometimes
12. seat belt
Test 8. familiar
9. obtain
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By the Great Horn Spoon 5/26
13. basketball
Panther Praise (last week) 14. mailbox
10. orchard
Brynn 15. babysitter 11. practice
Big Kahuna:
16. upstairs 12. prune
17. everybody
Done for the year
18. alarm clock
13. stout
May Birthdays: 14. threadbare
19. newspaper
Grace 5/13
20. weekend 15. wander