Wagoner 10.13

Ms. Wagoner’s Peek at the Week October 2009 Monday

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Day 1 – Music

Day 2 – Media

Day 3 – Gym

Day 1 – Music

Human Machine Project PRESENTATIONS

Bully Lesson Dr. Moore

Spanish

Spelling Test

Human Machine Project Research FINAL CLASS DAY

Spanish

F.A.D. 

Family Gathering 6:30 -8:00pm

Star of the Week: Sam

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 at 651 426 2214 or [email protected] or Sarah Hesseltine at 651 246 0222 or [email protected]. We would love your participation!

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IMPORTANT DATES: 10/14 – No School (Prof. Development) 10/15 – No School (MEA) 10/16 – No School (MEA) 10/20 – Family Gathering 6:30 – 8:00pm 10/30 – 5th Grade Fundraiser ends 11/02 – Camp payment due $90 11/09 – No School 11/12 – Camp St. Croix 11/13 – Camp St. Croix

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

FAMILY GATHERING Are you tired of the same old books? Do you wish that you could get some new reading material? Don’t go purchase more, think “green” and “reduce, REUSE, recycle”. Bring your old books for all ages to exchange with your friends for new adventures to our first family gathering on Tuesday, October 20 from 6:30 – 8:00pm. This fun filled family night will include a book swap, raffle, and a dramatic reading.

CLASS NEWS October 16 – October 23 WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? This week we continued Unit 1 in math. We worked on word problems that involved setting up equations as algebraic chains. We also reviewed the order of operations and different properties involved in multiplication situations. We are working hard to remember to show our work and label our answers when solving word problems. Please continue practicing math facts at home to help students stay fluent with computation. We will finish and test on Unit 1 next week before starting Unit 2 on Area and Perimeter. We are almost finished working with our IB Planner, titled The Human Machine. This week we began our research and started preparing for our summative assessment. Students have been working very hard and are excited to share their projects with the class. Our presentations will be on Tuesday, October 20. We also finished our first read aloud novel, Swindle by Gordon Korman. Students loved this book and always wanted to hear more. We worked on predicting and summarizing throughout the story. Next week we will be starting our next IB Planner, titled Environments. Enjoy the long weekend!!!

IB Planner – The Human Machine

IB Planner – The Human Machine

FALL FUN We are looking forward to our Fall Fun Celebrations. Teams are working together to create a fun, safe and respectful celebration in their rooms that will include fall themes. Please save your Halloween costumes for Saturday Oct. 31. Costumes should not be brought to school.

IB Planner Summative Assessment Students will be creating a project to share information about one of the systems we have studied during our work with the Human Machine. They will be presenting this project to the class, giving an explanation of the project and the system they studied. They may choose to work alone or with a partner. We will spend at least two days in class researching and preparing for the projects. Students may have to spend some time at home working on the project. Projects are due and presentations will be given on Tuesday, October 20. The guidelines are posted on our class website under the homework tab.

PATROL UPDATE The ORANGE team will take over duties starting on Monday, October 19. Please check the schedule (posted on the class website and in classrooms). CONTACT INFORMATION:

Sarah Wagoner Room 114 (651) 407-7600 x1610 [email protected]