Sandy KH
Peek at the Week
Monday
12
Day 1 – Music
Human Machine
Project Research
5th Grade
Fundraiser Begins
MIS AMIGOS
Are you interested in helping to foster
interpersonal skills in children of all ages?
Would you like to build self- confidence,
leadership and respect in our
students? Then consider helping us lead
cross age groups called "Mis Amigos"
once a month. Call Marie Andrews (Jack’s
mom) at 651 426 2214 or
andrews206@msn.com or Sarah
Hesseltine at 651 246 0222 or
ffreezinmn@aol.com.
We would love your participation!
October 2009
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
13 14 15 16
Day 2 – Media
Human Machine
Project Research NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL NO SCHOOL
Professional Development Educator Conference Educator Conference
IMPORTANT DATES:
 10/12 – 5th Grade Fundraiser begins
 10/14 – No School (Prof. Development)
CAMP
 10/15 – No School (MEA)
 10/16 – No School (MEA)
We have several students who have not
 10/30 – 5th Grade Fundraiser ends
 11/02 – Camp payment due $90
brought back their camp forms. Please
return the permission slip for camp as
 11/09 – No School
soon as possible. Our scratch off
 11/12 – Camp St. Croix
 11/13 – Camp St. Croix fundraiser cards have arrived! If
students plan on participating in this
fundraiser to earn money for their camp
CLASS WEBSITE: trip, they must bring in a $10 check
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade classes this year. made out to Parkview/Centerpoint to
Please check it out! get their fundraising envelope.
http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 CLASS NEWS
October 9 – October 16
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
This week we continued Unit 1 in math. IB Planner Summative Assessment
We worked on word problems that involved Students will be creating a project to
grouping situations and using parentheses. We also share information about one of the
worked three way combination problems. We are systems we have studied during our
working hard to remember to show our work and work with the Human Machine. They
label our answers when solving word problems. will be presenting this project to the
Please continue practicing math facts at home to class, giving an explanation of the
help students stay fluent with computation. project and the system they studied.
We continued working with our IB They may choose to work alone or with
Planner, titled The Human Machine. This week we a partner. We will spend at least two
focused our inquiry on the skeletal system, the days in class researching and preparing
muscular system, and the nervous system. We for the projects. Students may have to
counted the number of bones in our bodies and spend some time at home working on
learned how important our joints are. We also the project. Projects are due and
learned about muscles and their role in our bodies. presentations will be given on
Next week, we will start researching for our Tuesday, October 20. The guidelines
summative assessment for this IB Planner. are posted on our class website under
In spelling we focused on words with the the homework tab.
long o sound. Please remember that all of our
spelling work is done at school, but we encourage
students to study and practice at home. A great SPELLING
IB Planner – The Human Machine –Cells
website for practice and games with our spelling There will be no spelling list
words is www.spellingcity.com. next week because we have a
We also reviewed what makes a complete short week!
paragraph and wrote a paragraph on a topic from Behavior Skit Signs
our IB Unit on the Human Machine. Be Engaged
Dr. Moore, our school psychologist, also CONTACT
visited our classroom again and talked about INFORMATION:
bullying. She will be back once a week until
Thanksgiving break to discuss bullying and
Sandy Kriz-Herbert
friendships. We weekly talk about our Friendship Room 113
Rights and the Boy and Girl Friendship (651) 407-7600 x1610
Responsibilities. skkriz@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us