Sandy KH’s

Peek at the Week

February 22-26 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
15 16 17 18 19
Day 1 Music Day 2 –Media Day 3 – PE Day 1 – Music Day 2 -Media

FAD
DARE Homework due
First Grade Reading
Buddies Spelling Test
Spanish

IMPORTANT DATES: CLASS WEBSITE: Conference Notices were sent home

last week. If you are not sure of your
 2/19 – Sports Jersey Day We have set up a website for all the 5th
grade classes this year. Please check it out!
conference time
 3/4 – Conferences (NO SCHOOL) please call our Matoska International
p.m.only Secretary, Carolyn Kay at
http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 3/5 – Conferences (NO SCHOOL) 653-2847. Thank you
 2/8 - Conferences PM only
 3/18 – Music Performance

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Sandy Kriz-Herbert
Room 113
(651) 407-7600 x1608
skkriz@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us
 WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? Class News SCIENCE NEWS
We worked with adding and The next three weeks, students will be taking
subtracting fractions with common DARE Poster Contest 2010 a break from our IB Planners and focusing
denominators. The challenge this week was Students in fifth grade have an their inquiry on a new science unit. This
understanding least common multiple. We opportunity to submit a poster for science unit is titled Variables. They will get
added and subtracted mixed numbers and we DARE. They will be judged on to perform many cool experiments and see
also touched base on changing mixed numbers theme, creativity, uniqueness, and how different variables affect the outcomes.
to improper fractions along with changing overall appearance. Look for flyer We are very excited to start this unit and
improper fractions to mixed numbers. Check and more information to come. look forward to the students sharing their
out math links on the class website for more experiences with you! This week we
practice with fractions. There are more worked with “Flippers”. Next week we will
websites I have found that may help with this work with Swingers. In these Investigations
fractions unit. we experience variables which aide our
www.superkids.mathsheetcreator scientific inquiry. We collect data on our
www.Aplusmath.comworksheets controlled experiments, develop graphs that
www.IXLfifthgrademathpractice express the data and make hypothesis based
In literacy, we began reading about the on our data.
Olympics. Continue to bring in articles
focused on the Olympics. The Olympics are
played in Vancouver, Canada from February
12-28. Watch the Opening Ceremonies tonight
if you get a chance. They are always very
exciting. We are also working with writing.
We have a Writing Handbook where we are
discussing and practicing our writing. We are
going over the basic skills that a good writer
uses in developing personal narratives, stories,
Below are pictures of our
descriptive, informational, explanatory,
persuasive friendly and business letters. This
unit in writing will last six weeks. Hopefully Brianna, Logan C, and Faith created “Race To
we will bring home a great story from our Food Mountain”. They put in exceptional
publishing company. effort to develop this fun learning game.
We are continuing to work on
demonstrating the IB learner profiles and
attitudes. Our classroom is really working on
showing curiosity and enthusiasm. Please
check in with your child and discuss what it
means to be curious and enthusiastic at school One of our controlled Flipper experiments.
and in our community.