Wagoner 11.6

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

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

9

10

11

12

13

Day 3 – Gym

Day 1 – Music

Day 2 – Media

Day 3 – Gym

Spanish

Journal Page and Reading Log Due

CAMP ST. CROIX

CAMP ST. CROIX

Bus leaves school at 9:00am

Bus returns to school around 2:00pm

NO SCHOOL (Teacher Work Day)

Parent Board Meeting 6:00pm

Star of the Week: Taylor D.

IMPORTANT DATES: MIS AMIGOS Mis Amigos will be starting on the morning of November 20th. Students will be part of a cross-age group that meets once a month to build community and participate in fun activities. We are excited to get started and look forward to getting to know others in our school better!

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11/09 – No School 11/12 – Camp St. Croix 11/13 – Camp St. Croix 11/17 – Innisbrook Fundraiser pick up 3-6:30 11/23 – Conferences (No School) 11/24 – Conferences (No School) 11/25-27 – No School

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

CONFERENCES Conferences will take place on Monday, November 23 and Tuesday, November 24. Students are not in school during the day but are encouraged to attend the conference. Please look for a goal setting plan to come home the week before conferences. Reminders of conference dates and times will be sent home soon. If you will be unable to attend conferences on these dates, please contact me to set up another time to meet.

CLASS NEWS WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? In math, we continued Unit 2 which focuses on perimeter and area. Students explored the relationships between triangles and parallelograms and used this to help them determine the formula for finding the area. We also practiced finding the area and perimeter of more complex geometric shapes. Look for updated math links on the class website that are directly related to our math curriculum. We will wrap up this unit next week before we head off to camp. In our current IB planner, students are focusing their inquiry on Environments. The central idea of this planner is that all living things depend on the conditions in their environment. This week we jumped into our brand new Social Studies curriculum and learned how American Indians adapted to different environments when they settled here. The summative assessment for this unit will be explained next week and completed before Thanksgiving break. In literacy, we continued our first book club. Our class is reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Students worked on making connections to the story this week. In spelling, our words focused on the /oo/ sound. Remind students to study their word lists at home or on www.spellingcity.com. In Spanish this week, Senorita Leon explained the ‘Day of the Dead’. Students were very interested and had many questions. Students do have homework for Spanish that will be due on Tuesday.

CAMP We head off to camp next Thursday, November 12th . A packing list was sent home with your child last week. We are getting very excited for our camp experience this year!

Hatchet – Book Club

REMINDER: OUR BUS IS LEAVING AT 9:00AM FOR CAMP ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO HAVE YOUR CHILD HERE BY THAT TIME. Students will be returning back at school on Friday, November 13th around 2:00pm. They are free to go at this time if they have transportation arranged.

INNISBROOK FUNDRAISER Pick-up for the Innisbrook fundraiser will be after school on November 17 from 3:00 – 6:30pm. Fall Fun IT’S TIME TO NAME OUR SCHOOL! We are taking suggestions for our new school name during the month of November. Forms are available in the office or online at both our school website and fifth grade team website.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

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