Sandy KH’s

Peek at the Week

December 2009
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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Day 3 - Music Day 1 – Media Day 2 – PE

IB Planner: NO SCHOOL
Agents of Change Winter Break
Read-a-thon
Pajama Day December 24 – January 3
Research in the lab at
with our first grade reading
1:00-2:00 p.m. buddies

HOMEWORK
Homework expectations over winter
break went home with students today
(Friday, December 18). Students need
to write a rough draft for their Agents
of Change summative assessment
report over break. They are also
expected to fill out the reading log and
complete a journal page. Look for more
information on the class website.
IMPORTANT DATES:
 12/23 – 5th Grade Read-a-thon (Pajama Day)
 12/24 – Winter Break Begins
 1/4 – School Resumes
 1/6 – Rough draft and notes due
Agents of Change Summative Assessment
 1/11 – Final draft due
 1/11 – Art Enrichment 2:00-3:00pm
 1/13 – DARE starts!
CLASS WEBSITE:
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade
classes this year. Please check it out!
CLASSROOM WISHLIST
Our classroom is getting low on a few
supplies. If you are able to donate any
of these items to our classroom, we
would really appreciate it! We are in
need of the following items:
Pencils
Crayola Markers
Kleenex
Students could also use an old (but clean!)
sock to use as an eraser for our white boards.

http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
In math this week, we worked with place CLASS NEWS December 18
value involving large numbers. Students were also
introduced adding and subtracting whole numbers
and decimals. Ask your child about representing WEATHER
numbers in different ways; standard form, word Please make sure your child has
form, short word form, and expanded form. Please appropriate clothing for winter –
continue to check out links on our class web site coat, hat, and mittens are a must!
for more practice with decimals and place value. Don’t forget boots and snow pants
In our current IB planner, students are when needed. Many students have
focusing their inquiry on Agents of Change. The Patrol Duty outside and need to be
central idea of this planner is that individuals have prepared for any and all types of
made contributions through language and the arts. weather.
This week students began researching and taking
notes for their report. We spent time discussing
reliable websites and learned how to take good
notes. We will continue our research next week and
get ready to write our rough drafts.
In literacy, students continued to work on
their role pages with their book club reading a
biography. Students should be sharing with you School Patrols at the White Bear Bow!
their book club biographies. Our spelling words
this week focused on the endings –ed, -ing, -er, and
-est.
Sandy Kriz-Herbert
We also had some fun things happening in
and outside our classrooms this week. We had art Room 113
enrichment on Monday, where students created (651) 407-7600 x1608
panoramic pictures of a specific environment. We skkriz@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us
also learned about different countries in Spanish as
students presented their mobiles to the class.
Patrols also went bowling for their first reward trip.
We are continuing to work on
demonstrating the IB learner profiles and attitudes.
Students were risk-takers when they presented their At this time of the year, when you are thinking of gift
Spanish reports. We have also continued working giving, please consider the White Bear Lake Foundation’s
on being respectful listeners. Keep it up! Angel Fund. Thank you, Sandy