Mrs.

Stonehouse’s
Peek at the Week
January 2010
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
18 19 20 21 22
Day 1 – Phy Ed Day 2 – Music Day 3 – Media Day 1 – Music
IB Planner:
You Are What You Eat
NO SCHOOL
DARE starts!! First Grade Buddies Field Trip to
Martin Luther King, Jr. Spanish
Day (Family Tree Sunrise Park MS
5th Grade Parent 9:45am – 11:00am
homework is due)
Information Meeting
Unit 3 Math Test
@ Suntrise 7:00pm Spelling Test

Family Gathering (Happy Birthday F.A.D. 

6:30pm Heather!)

We have a new school name:
MATOSKA INTERNATIONAL!!
Students guessed letters in our new school
name as clues were read during morning
announcements each school day from
January 5 until January 11. The new
school name was revealed this week and
brought to the school board. The final
decision will be announced at the school
board meeting on February 8.
http://www.whitebear.k12.mn.us/pes/index.htm
IMPORTANT DATES:
 1/18 – NO SCHOOL
5th Grade Parent
 1/19 – Family Gathering 6:30pm Information Meeting
 1/20 – DARE starts!
 1/21 – 5th Grade Parent Info Night 7:00pm SPMS Next week, there will be an
 1/22 – Field trip to Sunrise Park (band/choir) informational meeting for parents
 1/28 – Field trip to Bell Museum of students entering 6th grade next
 1/29 – NO SCHOOL
year. This meeting will take place
on Thursday, January 21 at
7:00pm at Sunrise Park Middle
CLASS WEBSITE: School.
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade classes
this year. Please check it out!

http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 WEATHER
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? Please make sure your child has
In math this week, we finished our unit appropriate clothing for winter –
with decimals and graphs. We discussed a unit coat, hat, and mittens are a must!
review in class today. Your student is bringing this Don’t forget boots and snow pants
home. Please take some time to talk about this when needed. Many students have
with him/her. If they explain their work to you and Patrol Duty outside and need to be
you sign this review, they will earn three extra prepared for any and all types of
credit points on their final unit test (Tuesday, weather.
1/19). Our next unit will be on fractions.
We also finished our latest IB planner,
Agents of Change. The central idea of this planner
was that individuals have made contributions
through language and the arts. Students completed
their research reports and gave speeches to the Book Clubs!
class. We had some very impressive presentations!
Overall, I was very pleased with all students’ work.
They did a wonderful job!
In literacy, we have begun new book clubs,
focusing on books from the fantasy/sci fi genre.
Would you like to help with
Please note that some reading or journal work may
need to be completed at home. Students have a
Book Club?
calendar planned out with their reading Our new book clubs will meet until
assignments for each day. We are working on Feb. 10th on Tuesday and
being caring thinkers (from our IB Learner Profile) Thursday afternoons, from 2:15-
in these small groups. Spelling words this week 3:15, and Wednesday mornings
focused on words with the /әr/ sound and words from 11:00-11:50. If you are
with two or three syllables. available during those times and
We also completed Winter MAP testing would like to volunteer in our
(for reading) this week. Next week we will start class, we would love the extra
DARE with Officer Clara Just. adult help!

Landscape Art Lesson with a few of our wonderful

NEW IB PLANNER art volunteers CONTACT
We will be starting a new IB Planner next week. INFORMATION:
The planner is called You Are What You Eat. The Julie Stonehouse
central idea of this planner is the choices we make
nutritionally affect our bodies and our physical and Room 115
mental health. (651) 407-7600 x1609
jlston@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us