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Bike Rodeo: What We’re Learning:
Practice safe cycling in “Safe Moves Reading Workshop: This week, students will continue reading our
City”, learn about traffic signs, signals core literature novel called, The One and Only Ivan. will continue to
and more. MUST be returned in order apply all they have learned from Reading Workshop to Ivan. We
for your child to participate.
will focus on story comprehension and use our detective skills to
WHEN Monday • January 23, 2023
interpret and analyze story elements.
8:30am - 1:30 pm
Coach Tower’s Farewell:
Writing Workshop: This week, we will continue on our writing
workshop unit: Literary Essays. In this unit, students will become
Yeehaw, it’s her last hoorah at
Pacific! On February 15th, we will essayists focusing on literature. Essayists will read a text closely,
dedicate our morning assembly to our grow ideas about the text, and respond to the text by writing.
favorite cowgirl hat wearing, Coach Math: Ch. 6 Fraction Equivalence and Comparison- Students will
Tower. Students are encouraged to explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n ×
come to school dressed like Coach b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the
Tower wearing western attire. number and size of the parts differ
GATE Retest: Science: Students will learn that a variety of hazards result from
4th/5th grade make-up testing which natural processes (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions,
will take place on Wednesday, March severe weather, floods, coastal erosion).
1st from 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Social Studies: We will continue our unit on Exploration and
Pacific. All students took the GATE
Colonization. In this unit, students will learn about the early
test in 3rd grade. See the attached European explorers who mapped California. The time period we
letter and fill out the form if you
would like to have your child retested.
will discover focuses on 1492-1776.
If you have your child retest this
year, they will not be able to retest Mark Your Calendars:
next year (if they don’t qualify). They ü Friday, January 20th- Semester 1 Report Cards sent home
can only retest once. Students may ü 1/23-1/27- Parent-Teacher Conferences (12:40 dismissal
not be tested without each day except Wednesday, which dismisses at 1:30)
parent/guardian consent.
Parent-Teacher Conferences:
ü Friday, February 10th- Pantherthon
Conferences will be next week! You ü 2/20-2/24- Mid-winter Break
should receive an email reminder 2
days before our meeting. Please Spelling Connections 19: Wordly Wise 10:
ensure you are on time, and I will do 1. stumble
my best to stay on track with the 1. Ail
2. trouble
schedule. Fitting 25 conferences in on
3. eagle 2. Banish
minimum days (within 1 week) will be a
challenge. I am looking forward to our 4. harden 3. Communicate
5. brighten
time together to create goals for
4. Console
your child based on their strengths 6. thicken
and needs. Click Here!
7. cuddle 5. Cower
Upcoming Quizzes/Tests:
8. soften 6. Deliberate
9. lighten 7. Depth
Spelling unit 19 1/27
Ivan quiz 1/27 10. cradle
Math Ch. 6 1/27 11. dampen 8. Desire
12. uneaten 9. Livelihood
Panther Praise Positive: 13. double
Brynn 10. Misfortune
14. weaken
11. Orphan
Big Kahuna: 15. tighten
16. example 12. Precipice
Test 2/3
Violet
January Birthdays:
Violet 1/5
17. darken
18. tremble
test 13. Regain
14. Slay
Lily 1/22 19. glisten
20. blacken
1/27 15. Symptom