Ms.

Wagoner’s
Peek at the Week
December 2009
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Day 3 - Gym Day 1 – Music Day 2 – Media

IB Planner: NO SCHOOL
Agents of Change Winter Break
Read-a-thon
Pajama Day December 24 – January 3
Spanish

First Grade Buddies

Star of the Week: Tabitha

HOMEWORK
Homework expectations over winter
break went home with students today
(Friday, December 18). Students need
to write a rough draft for their Agents
of Change summative assessment
report over break. They are also
expected to fill out the reading log and
complete a journal page. Look for more
information on the class website.
IMPORTANT DATES:
 12/23 – 5th Grade Read-a-thon (Pajama Day)
 12/24 – Winter Break Begins
 1/4 – School Resumes
 1/6 – Rough draft and notes due
Agents of Change Summative Assessment
 1/11 – Final draft due
 1/11 – Art Enrichment 2:00-3:00pm
 1/13 – DARE starts!
CLASS WEBSITE:
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade
classes this year. Please check it out!
CLASSROOM WISHLIST
Our classroom is getting low on a few
supplies. If you are able to donate any
of these items to our classroom, we
would really appreciate it! We are in
need of the following items:
Pencils
Crayola Markers
Kleenex
Students could also use an old (but clean!)
sock to use as an eraser for our white boards.

http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 CLASS NEWS
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
In math this week, we worked with place
value word problems involving large numbers. WEATHER
Students were also introduced to pictographs, Please make sure your child has
which use symbols or pictures to show a certain appropriate clothing for winter –
number of items. Please continue to check out links coat, hat, and mittens are a must!
on our class web site for more practice with Don’t forget boots and snow pants
decimals and place value. when needed. Many students have
In our current IB planner, students are Patrol Duty outside and need to be
focusing their inquiry on Agents of Change. The prepared for any and all types of
central idea of this planner is that individuals have weather.
made contributions through language and the arts.
This week students began researching and taking
notes for their report. We spent time discussing
reliable websites and learned how to take good
notes. We will continue our research next week and
get ready to write our rough drafts. Crazy hair day
In literacy, students continued to work on
their poetry books. Students should be sharing with
you and looking for feedback. The poetry book will
be included in our portfolio. Our spelling words
this week focused on the endings –ed, -ing, -er, and WILD ABOUT READING
-est. Our class voted to participate in
We also had some fun things happening in the Wild About Reading contest
and outside our classrooms this week. We had art put on by the Minnesota Wild. We
enrichment on Monday, where students created brainstormed ideas for a class
panoramic pictures of a specific environment. We cheer and submitted our entry.
also learned about different countries in Spanish as Now we wait to see if our cheer
students presented their mobiles to the class. was chosen as one of the top 12!
Patrols also went bowling for their first reward trip.
We are continuing to work on
demonstrating the IB learner profiles and attitudes.
Students were risk-takers when they presented their CONTACT
Spanish reports. We have also continued working INFORMATION:
on being respectful listeners. Keep it up! Country presentations in Spanish Sarah Wagoner
Room 114
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651-653-2852.