Sandy Kriz-Herbert’s

Peek at the Week

April 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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Day 3 – PE Day 1 – Music Day 2– Media Day 3 – PE Day 1– Music

Spanish MCA Reading MIS AMIGOS

MCA Reading First Grade Buddies
Testing Testing
*Send in items for our Spelling Test
Beach and Water Fun 10:30-12:00 10:30-12:00
Spanish FAD 
Basket! It will be in the
silent auction at the
Carnival May 21

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
Beach and Water Fun
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.
IMPORTANT DATES:
 MCA Testing Reading 4/20 and 4/21
 MCA Testing Science 4/26 and 4/27
 4/23 – MIS AMIGOS and DARE Essays due
 4/26 – 5th Grade Orientatation 7:00pm
(at Sunrise Park and Central)
 5/6 – Science and Geography Fair
HOMEWORK UPDATE
Fifth graders will no longer be receiving
the homework packet every Friday.
Homework will be given out in
classrooms as teachers feel it is needed.
We will be reminding students to keep
track of their homework in their
agendas. (Parents Sign the Trackers)This
change will help ease them into the
homework patterns they are likely to see
in middle school. Students will have to
continue to read at home and will be
required to fill out a monthly reading
log. Math homework will also continue
on a regular basis. Check your student’s
math each day and sign it at the top of
the first page.
 CLASS WEBSITE: Serfs and Turfs
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? th Our final unit of inquiry is
We have set up a website for all the 5 grade classes
In math, this week, we took the MCA tests in focused on “How We Organize
math, Tuesday and Wednesday. We also worked with this year. Please check it out!
Ourselves.”
Coordinate Graphing. We will begin geometry and
classifying shapes. Look for homework to be signed
http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com Serfs and Turf’s central idea is
by you and then brought back to school. based on how communities
We continued our work with our IB Planner, organize themselves to meet their
Civil Struggles. The central idea of this planner is that geographic, economic and social
societies have civil conflicts due to differences conditions. We will learn about
In literacy, we finished our friendly letters. We the purpose of feudalism, in
worked on our collaborative work skills and used an comparison to our US
evaluation checklist for this purpose. We also used a government. We will understand
letter writing rubric to evaluate our letters. the workings of our government,
Students will be writing a DARE essay in April how it was formed and how it
to sum up what they’ve learned. They will be turning works. From the beginning when
in their essay in May. I will collect them as they finish.
our Constitution was written and
Look for the flyer about this expository essay that is
required by all fifth graders to complete. how it works today for the people
It gets harder and harder to concentrate during in the United States of America.
spring in fifth grade. Please remind your child to be Bring in articles from the paper
responsible with turning work in on time. We are trying about the workings in our local,
to instill good habits as they make the transition to state and federal government.
middle school next year. We will post and discuss these
There are high expectations for our fifth Students from France visited our room! articles to better understand
graders. Ask your fifth grader about their behaviors in government in our world.
our classroom, at specialist classes, on our playground
and bus. We will use a demerit system for infractions
in any of the listed above areas. Please help us and
your child by asking them how they are doing. For
patrols, there is a demerit card in their tracker that CONTACT
parents need to sign. There is an explanation of the INFORMATION:
demerit. Please look at this regularly and talk to your Sandy KH
fifth grader about how they are doing in school and on
the bus.
Room 113
(651) 407-7600 x1608
skkriz@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us

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