Mrs.

Felton’s
Peek at the Week
October 2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

11 12 13 14 15
Day 1 - Spanish Day 2 – Gym Day 3 – Music

Science Museum
School Field Trip NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL
Picture Day Parent Teacher
Organization (PTO)
9:25am-3:15pm Conferences Conferences
meeting 6:30pm

ART VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!! IMPORTANT DATES: SCIENCE MUSEUM FIELD TRIP

If you have a love of art or you love helping
children make art… we need you!! No art
background is needed, as you will be
trained. Art is done in the classroom on a
schedule you coordinate with the teacher.
Please call Betsy Diekema at 651-762-8591
or email b.diekema@comcast.net if you
are interested.
Felton’s classroom has the bulk of leaders
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade classes
 10/11 – School Picture Day (*date change)
 10/14 – Fall Conferences (NO SCHOOL) Our first field trip of the year is
 10/15 – Fall Conferences (NO SCHOOL) scheduled for Wednesday, October
 10/18 – Fall Conferences (evening) 13. We will be going to the Science
 10/21 – NO SCHOOL Museum free of charge as part of an
 10/22 – NO SCHOOL engineering grant. Students will need
to bring a bag lunch to school this
CLASS WEBSITE: day, unless they have ordered one
from our school.
this year. Please check it out!

http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 ROOM 113 – CLASS NEWS

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? PATROL UPDATE!!

The ORANGE team will be on duty from
This week we wrapped up Unit 1 in
October 11 – October 29. The schedule
math. This unit focused on word problems
involving multiplication and division. Students
will be posted at school and on our fifth
learned several strategies for solving problems grade team website:
relating to different mathematical situations. www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com.
We will take the Unit Test on Monday, which
will be shared at conferences next week. We will
start Unit 2 after conferences. It is a short unit
that focuses on the area and perimeter of
triangles and quadrilaterals.
FIRST GRADE BUDDIES
We continued working with our IB
We started working with our first grade
Planner, titled The Human Machine. This week buddies this week. Each fifth grader is
we focused our inquiry on the skeletal and paired up with a first grader from Ms.
muscular system. We counted the number of Pam’s class. We will be meeting once a
bones in our bodies and even got to dissect an week throughout the school year to help
owl pellet to look for rodent bones. We also the first graders with their reading and
learned about muscles and their role in our writing. We will also share work that we
bodies. We had a guest speaker this week, my have done in class. This is a great way to
husband who is a foot and ankle surgeon. The build cross-age connections!! 
kids had a lot of really good questions for him.
Next week, we will focus our inquiry on the
nervous system and start working on the IB Planner – Human Machine
summative assessment for this unit of inquiry. Dissecting owl pellets
In spelling we focused on words with the
long o sound. We will be working on one
spelling list over the next two short weeks at CONTACT INFORMATION:
school.
Students also completed the mile run in Lori Felton
gym this week. They did a fantastic job! I was a
Room 113
risk-taker myself and ran with them. It was great
seeing them work hard to accomplish their goal. (651) 407-7600 x1608
Have a great week!  lfelto@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us