Ms.

Wagoner’s
Peek at the Week
October 2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

11 12 13 14 15
Day 1 - Music Day 2 – Spanish Day 3 – Gym

Science Museum
School Happy Birthday Joey!
Field Trip NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL
Picture Day First Grade Buddies 9:25am-3:15pm Conferences Conferences
Parent Teacher
Organization (PTO)
meeting 6:30pm

Star of the Week: Mallory

ART VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!! IMPORTANT DATES: SCIENCE MUSEUM FIELD TRIP

If you have a love of art or you love helping
children make art… we need you!! No art
background is needed, as you will be
trained. Art is done in the classroom on a
schedule you coordinate with the teacher.
Please call Betsy Diekema at 651-762-8591
or email b.diekema@comcast.net if you
are interested.
Our classroom currently has no volunteers
to help with art. We are looking for both
assistants and leaders to help with art in
our classroom this year!
 10/11 – School Picture Day (*date change)
 10/14 – Fall Conferences (NO SCHOOL)
 10/15 – Fall Conferences (NO SCHOOL)
 10/18 – Fall Conferences (evening)
 10/21 – NO SCHOOL
 10/22 – NO SCHOOL
CLASS WEBSITE:
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade classes
this year. Please check it out!
Our first field trip of the year is
scheduled for Wednesday, October
13. We will be going to the Science
Museum free of charge as part of an
engineering grant. Students will need
to bring a bag lunch to school this
day, unless they have ordered one
from our school.

http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 ROOM 114 – CLASS NEWS

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? PATROL UPDATE!!

The ORANGE team will be on duty from
This week we wrapped up Unit 1 in
October 11 – October 29. The schedule
math. This unit focused on word problems
involving multiplication and division. Students
will be posted at school and on our fifth
learned several strategies for solving problems grade team website:
relating to different mathematical situations. www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com.
We took the Unit Test on Tuesday, which will be
shared at conferences next week. We started
Unit 2, which is a short unit that focuses on the
area and perimeter of triangles and
quadrilaterals.
We continued working with our IB
Planner, titled The Human Machine. This week IB Planner – Human Machine
we focused our inquiry on the skeletal and Mr. Bones Puzzle
muscular system. We counted the number of FIRST GRADE BUDDIES
bones in our bodies and even got to dissect an We started working with our first grade
owl pellet to look for rodent bones. We also buddies this week. Each fifth grader is
learned how important our joints are. Some paired up with a first grader from Mrs.
students tried to complete daily tasks without Hayden’s class. We will be meeting once
the use of their thumb joints. We also learned a week throughout the school year to
about muscles and their role in our bodies. Next
help the first graders with their reading
week, we will focus our inquiry on the nervous
and writing. We will also share work that
system and start working on the summative
we have done in class. This is a great way
assessment for this unit of inquiry.
to build cross-age connections!! 
In spelling we focused on words with the
long o sound. We will be working on one
spelling list over the next two short weeks at CONTACT INFORMATION:
school.
Students also completed the mile run in Sarah Wagoner
gym this week. They did a fantastic job! I was a
IB Planner – Human Machine Room 114
risk-taker myself and ran with them. It was great
Dissecting owl pellets (651) 407-7600 x1610
seeing them work hard to accomplish their goal.
Have a great week!  sjwago@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us