Sandy KH’s

Peek at the Week

January 11-15 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
11 12 13 14 15
Day 2 - PE Day 3 – Music Day 1 – Media Day 2 – PE Day 3 – Music
2:00 – 3:00pm 2:00 – 3:00pm 2:00 – 2:40pm
IB Planner:
PRESENTATIONS PRESENTATIONS PRESENTATIONS
MIS AMIGOS
Agents of Change
FINAL DRAFT DUE Spanish Reflections Hippie Day
Art Enrichment
Start Book Clubs First Grade Buddies
Spanish Spelling Test
Parent Board Mtg. INFORMATION NIGHT
District Board 6:30pm 6:00pm F.A.D. 
Meeting

NEW SCHOOL NAME
A new clue poem will be read during
morning announcements each school day
from January 5 until January 11.
Students will have a chance to reveal one
of the letters in the new name as our
game progresses. Each clue poem will be
posted on our school website for families
to guess our new school name along with
the students!
http://www.whitebear.k12.mn.us/pes/index.htm
IMPORTANT DATES:
 1/11 – Final draft due
 1/11 – Art Enrichment 2:00-3:00pm INFORMATION NIGHT
 1/12 – Parent Board Meeting 6:30pm
 1/14 – Information Night 6:00pm
 1/15 – Mis Amigos
There will be a new family
information night held at our
 1/18 – NO SCHOOL
 1/20 – DARE starts! school on Thursday, January 14
 1/22 – Field trip to Sunrise Park (band/choir) at 6:00pm.
 1/28 – Field trip to Bell Museum
 1/29 – NO SCHOOL
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

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
In math this week, we reviewed rounding
with decimals and continued exploring different
types of graphs. We will be wrapping up this unit
next week and take the unit test on Wednesday.
Please continue to check out links on our class web
site for more practice with decimals and place
value.
In our current IB planner, students are
focusing their inquiry on Agents of Change. The
central idea of this planner is that individuals have
made contributions through language and the arts.
Students continued their research and note-taking
this week. Students worked hard to complete their
rough drafts of their reports. I appreciate all of the
help parents/guardians provided at home. The final
draft is due on Monday, January 11. Speeches
will start on Tuesday afternoon.
In literacy, students completed their
biography book clubs and are reading novels in
class. We will focus on our Genre Pizza and
experience reading in all of the genres. Students
are recording the titles on a pizza and we will
celebrate in the Spring when our pizzas are
complete with a special pizza party in our
classroom.
We are continuing to work on
demonstrating the IB learner profiles and attitudes.
Students showed cooperation as they worked
together in math. Students were also reflective as
we put some work samples into our portfolios.
We will be starting a new IB Planner next week. The planner is called You Are
What You Eat. The central idea of this planner is the choices we make nutritionally
affect our bodies and our physical and mental health. We are going on a field trip to
the Bell Museum, Jan. 28 focused on this planner. Look for the permission slip!
WEATHER
CLASS NEWS Please make sure your child has
appropriate clothing for winter –
coat, hat, and mittens are a must!
Don’t forget boots and snow pants
when needed. Many students have
Patrol Duty outside and need to be
prepared for any and all types of
weather.
We are engaged, respectful, responsible, safe, and compassionate. We used the
data we collected in our school to help us point out the areas that need attention and
improvements. We are taking different areas in our school; bathroom, hallway,
playground, lunchroom and on the bus to focus on the above bolded words. As fifth
graders we understand that our leadership means a lot to the younger students in our
school. We take pride in the positive behaviors we show everyday in our school.
Talk with your fifth grader about how they impact the rest of the school with their
knowledge of the above words wherever they are.
CONTACT
The fifth grade team now has Smartboards INFORMATION:
in each room. Students are utilizing them in Sandy KH
many different ways; putting their projects
Room 113
on USB drives and giving their speeches
using the Smartboards. The Smartboards are (651) 407-7600 x1608
skkriz@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us
interactive and assist students in all subjects.
NEW IB PLANNER