Ms.

Wagoner’s
Peek at the Week
January 2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

17 18 19 20 21
Day 3 – Gym Day 1 – Music Day 2 – Spanish Day 3 - Gym

NEW UNIT OF INQUIRY First Grade Buddies Homework Packet

NO SCHOOL We The People Book Browse due
th
6th grade registration 5 Grade Info. Night
SPMS and CMS
Spelling Test
sent home
Camp info. sent home 7:00pm
Friday Activity Day

Star of the Week: Nick B.

PATROL UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES: MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

The Black team will take over duties from
Tuesday, January 18 until Friday, January
28. Look for the schedule posted in your
classroom and on the class web site. New
patrol team pictures have been posted to
the class web site.
Keep up the great work patrols!
 1/17: NO SCHOOL
 1/20: SPMS 5th Grade Info. Night
7:00pm
 1/21: MAP Testing (Reading)
 1/26: Play at North Campus
 1/28: NO SCHOOL
On Thursday, January 20th, Sunrise
Park Middle School is hosting a 5th
Grade Parent Information Night. This
will start at 7:00pm. This will be
especially helpful for current WBL 5th
grade families as students will be
registering for classes sometime this
month.

CLASS WEBSITE:
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade classes this year. Please check it out!
http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 ROOM 114 – CLASS NEWS
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
This week in math we continued working
with fractions. We reviewed how to simplify and MUSIC
unsimplify fractions. We also worked hard at Students are learning and practicing with
adding and subtracting fractions that do not recorders in music. Please make sure
have a common denominator. This has been very your child is bringing his or her recorder
challenging for us but we are getting better with to school.
lots of practice! We also began using fractions
with different situations involving probability.
We will be finishing up this unit on fractions next
week.
In our current IB planner, students are
focusing their inquiry on Agents of Change. The
central idea of this planner is that individuals
MOVIE NIGHT
have made contributions through language, The Matoska International PTO will be
science, and the arts. Students completed their holding a Family Movie Night on
final drafts and gave speeches to the class. Some Friday, February 4th from 6:30 until
Watercolor Lighthouses
students really got into character! Overall, I was 8:30 pm. The movie will be
very pleased with all students’ work. They did a determined by a vote from all
wonderful job! students at our school.
In literacy, students practiced reading
non-fiction as we explored different topics
relating to science. We also read a Scholastic
5th GRADE CAMP
News which focused on the one year
Important information and forms
anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. Our about 5th grade camp this spring will
spelling list this week focused on two and be sent home on Tuesday, January
three-syllable words. 18. Please read over them carefully
Kyle from the WBL Center for the Arts and return forms to your child’s
came to our classroom to do a watercolor teacher as soon as possible.
lesson. Our work is displayed in the fifth grade
hallway. We also visited Sunrise Park to learn CONTACT INFORMATION:
about music options for 6th grade. Registration
materials will be coming home next week for Sarah Wagoner
those students attending Sunrise Park or Room 114
Dancing with Mrs. Maple’s class during Gym
Central next year. Have a great weekend and
stay warm!!  (651) 407-7600 x1610
sjwago@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us