Mrs.

Stonehouse’s
Peek at the Week
October 2010

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

4 5 6 7 8
Day 2 - Music Day 3 – Spanish Day 1 – Phy Ed Day 2 – Music Day 3 – Phy Ed

Book Browse Spelling Test

First Grade
Reading Buddies Friday Activity Day 
(day change)
IB authorization visit Mile run in gym
Volunteer in-service
6:30pm
IB authorization visit (followed by Mis-Amigos
meeting)

ART VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!! IMPORTANT DATES: ATTENTION VOLUNTEERS!!

If you have a love of art or you love helping
children make art… we need you!! No art
background is needed, as you will be
trained. Art is done in the classroom on a
schedule you coordinate with the teacher.
Please call Betsy Diekema at 651-762-8591
or email b.diekema@comcast.net if you
are interested.
Our classroom currently has no volunteers
to help with art. We are looking for both
assistants and leaders to help with art in
our classroom this year!
 10/11 – School Picture Day (*date change)
 10/14 – Fall Conferences (NO SCHOOL)
 10/15 – Fall Conferences (NO SCHOOL)
 10/18 – Fall Conferences (evening)
 10/21 – NO SCHOOL
 10/22 – NO SCHOOL
CLASS WEBSITE:
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade classes
this year. Please check it out!
Thursday, October 7 – 6:30pm
Matoska Gym
Join Gayle and our program
coordinators to learn all about
getting involved. All program areas
will be represented. Learn about the
many volunteer opportunities at
Matoska and get your initial training
all at one time.

http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
This week we continued Unit 1 in math.
This unit focuses on multiplication and division
word problems. We practiced solving more
combination and comparison problems and set up
equations to solve word problems. We also
learned how to solve algebraic chains. Students
will be tested on Unit 1 next week.
We continued working with our IB
Planner, titled The Human Machine. This week we
focused our inquiry on the circulatory system and
the respiratory system. We located our pulse and
measured our heart rate after doing some physical
activity. Next week, we will focus our inquiry on
our skeletal and muscular systems.
In spelling we focused on words with the
long e and long u sound. Please remember that all
of our spelling work is done at school, but we
encourage students to study and practice at home.
A great website for practice and games with our
spelling words is www.spellingcity.com.
This week we also finished up our MAP
testing for the fall. Those results will be shared at
conferences.
We have a couple of volunteer
opportunities: we really need art helpers (see
other side), and we need volunteers to help with
camp fundraising (see the attached letter). Thank
you for considering this…Have a great week! 
ROOM 115 – CLASS NEWS
FIELD TRIP!!
Our first field trip of the year is
scheduled for Wednesday, October 13.
We will be going to the Science Museum
free of charge as part of an engineering
grant. This will be a fantastic opportunity
for our students to learn more about
science and how it connects to our
current IB planner on the human body.
Conducting an experiment on how our skin Please return the permission slip to your
protects us from disease. child’s teacher as soon as possible. We
will need chaperones to come along with
us too! If interested, please return the
interest form to school by Tuesday, 10/5.
Students will need to bring a bag lunch
to school this day, unless they plan on
ordering one from our school.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Julie Stonehouse
Room 115
(651) 407-7600 x1609
jlston@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us