Mrs.
Stonehouse’s
Monday
3 4
Day 3 – Media
Happy Birthday to Zach
on 4/29!! 
(Sorry I missed the
Peek, Zach!)
Art Party 2:00-3:00
*Send in items for our
We Love Music Basket!
It will be in the silent
auction at the Carnival
May 21. Thank you!
SPRING CARNIVAL
May 21, 2010
Our class is collecting items for the
basket fundraiser the entire month of
April. Our classroom was assigned
the theme
We Love Music
Please donate any new or family
friendly items that fit this theme.
Donations of cash, gift cards, or
checks made out to Matoska
International Parent Board will also
be accepted. $1.00 tickets will be
sold the night of the carnival and
winning tickets will be drawn for
each basket at the end of the night.
Peek at the Week
May 2010
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
5 6 7
Day 1 –PhyEd Day 2– Music Day 3 – Media Day 1– PhyEd
Mrs. Stonehouse Spelling Test
returns First Grade Buddies
Spanish
Spanish
MAP Reading Test FAD 
Happy Birthday
2:15-3:15 Mrs. Stonehouse 
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Where can you find 19 enthusiastic 5th
IMPORTANT DATES:
graders, 2 directors/teachers, a donkey,
fairies, couples in and out of love, sword
 5/3, 5/4--Mrs. Stonehouse is out of town fighting, music, dancing, and more? At the
 5/5—MAP Reading Test, 2:15-3:15 5th grade Shakespeare club! These kids have
given up 3 days a week after school to learn
 5/6 -– Science and Geography Fair
more about acting. The club is led by Ms.
 5/11—Patrol Picnic at Aldrich Arena Sandy Harthan (gr. 4 teacher) and guest
 5/26 –- 5th Grade Track and Field Day director Kevin Whitby. Doing a play
 5/27—MAP Math Test, 10:30-11:30 together helps them to learn to work together
 5/27—Evening Performance by Shakespeare Club as a team, practice reading fluently and with
expression, and learn about another time and
place. They will be performing the play “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William
Shakespeare on Tuesday, May 25th at 2:00
for the school and for families on Thursday,
May 27th at 6:00 in the school gym.
 WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? CLASS WEBSITE: “How We Organize Ourselves”
I am sending a “Thursday Edition” of our class Our final unit of inquiry is
Peek due to the fact that I was sick last Friday, and I am We have set up a website for all the 5th grade classes focused on “How We Organize
leaving town for a few days tomorrow. As you can see this year. Please check it out! Ourselves.”
from our “Important Dates” box, there is a lot happening The central idea is based on how
in 5th grade these days! Here’s a recap of the last week: http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
We are beginning our final Planner of the year:
communities organize themselves
We, the People. The central idea for this Planner is: to meet their geographic,
Systems of government impact a community’s social and economic and social conditions.
economic condition. (See the box to the right.) We are We focus on governments in our
starting out with a study of the birth of our nation’s world and compare our
government, including the Revolutionary War, government to governments in
Declaration of Independence and the writing of the the world. We will understand
Constitution. Next, we will learn about other systems of the workings of our government,
government from around the world, and compare them how it was formed and how it
with our government. Some lively and interesting works. From the beginning when
conversations have already come out of our work in this
our Constitution was written and
exciting unit.
In math we are continuing our work with
how it works today for the people
Algebra, Functions, and Graphs. We just took a quiz that in the United States of America.
many students are making corrections to. Ask your son Bring in articles from the paper
or daughter how they did on this quiz. The unit test will about the workings in our local,
be next Friday, May 7th. state and federal government.
We also began new Book Clubs this week. Our We will post and discuss these
class is reading The Fighting Ground, by Avi. This is an Last week we helped clean up our school grounds articles to better understand
exciting book about 13 year old Jonathan who runs away governments in our world.
in celebration of Earth Day. We collected a lot of
from home to join the Revolutionary War. He learns
some big lessons about war and life in the process. trash…way to go team!
It gets harder and harder to concentrate during
spring in fifth grade. Please remind your child to be
responsible with turning work in on time. We are trying CONTACT
to instill good habits as they make the transition to INFORMATION:
middle school next year.
As we get into the final weeks of 5th grade, I will Julie Stonehouse
be sharing some scenarios from The Worst-Case Room 115
Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School. This book (651) 407-7600 x1609
is full of secrets and tips for all the adventures to come; jlston@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us
Exciting times are ahead!! 