Ms.

Wagoner’s
Peek at the Week
December 2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

6 7 8 9 10
Day 1 - Music Day 2 – Spanish Day 3 – Gym Day 1 – Music Day 2 - Spanish

ART with Kyle from Book Browse First Grade Buddies Homework Packet
WBL Center for the Arts REPORT CARDS due!
(Drawing lesson) SENT HOME
Last day for Toys for Tots!
Spelling Test

Friday Activity Day

Star of the Week: Krister Patrol Bowling forms due!

PATROL UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES: STUDENT COUNCIL UPDATE

The Black team has taken over patrol
duties until December 17. Look for the
schedule posted on the class web site.
Our first reward trip for all patrols will be
to White Bear Bowl on Tuesday,
December 21.
 12/07 : Report Cards home
 12/16 : Wacky Hair Day
 12/21 : Patrol Field Trip
 12/22 : Winter Celebration
 12/23 – 1/2 : Winter Break
We will be collecting new and unwrapped
toys for Toys for Tots until December 8th.
All items will be donated to the Lions Club.
Student Council has also decided that our
next spirit day will be Wacky Hair day on
Thursday, December 16.

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
 ROOM 114 – CLASS NEWS
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? THE SCHOOL VOLUNTEER
We're very excited about a new
In math this week, we reviewed and program we are working on. It's called
tested on Unit 3 in math. I was VERY The School Volunteer and it's an online
impressed with how students did on the test. volunteer program that allows our
Students should be very proud of their hard volunteers to register and view all the
work! At the end of the week, we started Unit areas that we need volunteers for and
4, which is a short geometry unit on circles, sign-up online. In the near future we will
angles, and polygons. be able streamline our volunteer
We also completed our Unit of systems and connect teacher needs with
Inquiry, titled Civil Struggles. The central idea volunteers. Keep a look out for more
of this planner was that societies have civil information coming soon. If you
are interested in a sneak peak, check out
conflicts due to differences. This week
www.theschoolvolunteer.org and take a
students completed letters for their
virtual tour.
summative assessment. They also had a
chance to share their letters with other
students and reflect on all they have done Dec. 14 – Informal PTO Meeting
Sharing our Civil Struggles letters
during this unit. Our next Unit of Inquiry is 9:15-10:15 a.m.
titled Agents of Change. All parents are invited to come!
Students focused on reading non-
fiction material during our literacy rotations
this week. They also practiced dictionary
skills. In language arts, we finished up work
with pronouns. Our spelling list this week
focused on three types of compound words.
We were also lucky to have a parent Stop by our hallway to check out
volunteer come into our classroom to do a the fantastic letters students wrote
Picasso self-portrait art lesson with us. We during our Civil Struggles unit!
will be saving the work we did for the art
show this spring. Have a great weekend! 
CONTACT INFORMATION:

Sarah Wagoner
UPDATE!!
Room 114
REPORT CARDS WILL BE SENT HOME WITH Picasso self-portrait art project
STUDENTS ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7. (651) 407-7600 x1610
sjwago@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us