Sandy KH’s

Peek at the Week

December 2009
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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Day 1 - Media Day 2 – PE Day 3 – Music Day 1 – Media Day 2 – PE
IB Planner:
Agents of Change
Patrol Field Trip Spelling Test
Art Enrichment Family Gathering Bowling
2:00-3:00 6:30pm 1:00-3:00 Homework Packet
Due
Papa Murphy’s Pizza Night
Spanish

PATROL UPDATE
The first School Patrol reward event
has been scheduled for Thursday,
December 17. Patrols will be going
bowling at White Bear Lake Bowl from
1:00 – 3:00pm.
Students should NOT bring extra
money to spend that day for food or
arcade games. We appreciate your
support with this.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Classroom Wishlist
 12/14 – Art Enrichment 2:00 – 3:00
 12/15 – Family Gathering 6:30pm Our classroom is getting low on a few
 12/17 – Patrol Field Trip 1:00 – 3:00 supplies. If you are able to donate any
 12/23 – Winter Celebration of these items to our classroom, we
 12/24 – Winter Break Begins would really appreciate it! We are in
 1/4 – School Resumes need of the following items:
 1/6 – Rough draft and notes due for Agent of Pencils
Change
Kleenex
Hot Cocoa Mix
CLASS WEBSITE: Whole Wheat Flour
Box of Cereal, dried cranberries or
We have set up a website for the entire 5th raisins for making gorp
grade classes this year. Please check it out!
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http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 CLASS NEWS IN ROOM 113

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?

In math, we continued working with WEATHER
decimals. Students were introduced to Please make sure your child has appropriate clothing for
understanding a whole and parts of a whole in winter – coat, hat, and mittens are a must! Don’t forget
tenths, hundredths, and thousandths. Students boots and snow pants when needed. Many students have
are writing decimals as fractions and fractions Patrol Duty outside and need to be prepared for any and
as decimals. Check out links on our class web
all types of weather.
site for more practice with decimals and place
value.
In our new IB planner, students are
focusing their inquiry on Agents of Change.
The central idea of this planner is that
individuals have made contributions through Holiday Gift Giving
language and the arts. This week we learned If you are thinking about gift giving please
about different agents of change including consider donating to the “Angel Fund” through
Abraham Lincoln, and Leonardo DiVinci. The the White Bear Lake Foundation. The Angel
summative assessment was explained and Fund assists many families and children living in
students had time to brainstorm that they the White Bear Lake Area Schools who need
would like to do their report on. We will start assistance in school materials and activities.
researching next week and begin taking notes.
Students have a complete packet that will
assist them in developing their report.
In literacy, we are working with a
biography book club. Students should be
bringing their book home and working on role CONTACT
pages that connect them to their biography. INFORMATION:
We also took a field trip to study island Sandy Kriz-Herbert
this week. Study island is a website set up
where students can practice different math or Room 113
reading concepts. Students may access this (651) 407-7600 x1608
from any computer and should know their skkriz@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us
login information. (www.studyisland.com)