What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #3)

  

Calendar

Tuesday, October 1st--Randall Success Night 5-7 pm 

Thursday, Oct. 3 and Friday, Oct.4--No School for students

Thursday, October 24th-Picture Day

Friday, November 1st--Mid Day Release for students--Teacher

                                         planning/prep for conferences

Monday, November 4th--No school for students/Conference Day

Tuesday, November 5th--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Wednesday, November 6th--2nd Quarter begins

Thursday, November 14th-Picture Retake Day

Wednesday, November 27th-Friday, November 29th--Fall Break

Monday, December 2nd--No school for students--Teacher PD 

Monday, Dec. 23rd-Tuesday, Jan. 5th--Winter Break

Monday, January 5th--School begins again!!!

Monday, January 20th-No school for Martin Luther King, Jr Day

Monday, January 27th--No school for students--Grade reporting day

Monday, January 28th--3rd Quarter begins

Friday, February 21st--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Monday, March 24th-28th--Spring Break

Monday, March 31st--School begins again!!!

Monday, April 7th--Mid Day Release for students

                                --Teacher planning/prep for conferences

                                --4th Quarter begins

Thursday, April 10th-Tentative--Film Festival Field Trip

Thursday, April 10th-Evening conferences

Friday, April 11th--No school for students--Conference Day

Friday, May 2nd--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Monday, May 26th--No school for Memorial Day

Tuesday, June 10th--Music Concert/Moving On Celebration (1:00 ish-2:30)

Wednesday, June 11th--Last day of school!!!

                                       --5th grade field trip to Vilas Park  (11am -2 pm)

New News

• It is Hispanic Heritage Month!  Ask your 5th grader what we have learned!!

Oldie, but Goodies

• Please make sure your 5th grader has headphones to use in class this year.
• Food Service Menus can also be found at the following link - Menus
• Here is our shameless plea to all parents/guardians.  We don't take many field trips during the year, but if things come up at the last minute and for the end of the year all day trip we really count on parents joining us.  If you think you might even consider this, please do the volunteer training now so we are not scrambling at the end of the year.  Here is the link to get going.  The training is good for only one year.  After that, you do need to re-apply, but it is a simple process after the first round of training.  Thank you!!  Volunteering Link

Math

• This week the 5th grade math class moved on to our next module for math.  For this module we will be focusing on factors, multiples and the associative property of math.  Part of this process included our work with surface area and volume.
• Students are quickly learning that those multiplication facts are really important this year and moving forward.  If your student is not fluent with these facts, this is something they can work on at home.  We appreciate the support!!
• Next week we will move on to Module 3 which is more work with multiplication strategies.  In addition, we will review the first three modules and do part one of the Unit 1 assessment.  The following week we will focus on some basic division strategies and assess this topic separately. 
• Our Number Corner this month will focus on making connections between numbers written as fractions and decimals and start our work with volume in tangible and strategic ways. 

Literacy this week

• We are deep in our  first EL unit of the year based on Stories of Human Rights.  We spent quite a bit of time discussing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and how we can connect this to our text, Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan.
• We will continue to work on finding the "gist" of each chapter, making connections to the UDHR, expressing our learning in verbal and written communication and how to respond to questions using complete sentences, quoting accurately from a text and summarizing a text with supporting details.
• For ALL Block, we are working on learning routines and purpose for our literacy time.  We are also working on building our stamina for independent reading. 

Science 

• Our first unit will be on Patterns of Earth and Sky as we answer the question:

Why do we see stars at different times?

• Our first chapter will focus on :  Why don't we see a lot of stars in daytime?
• Our second chapter will focus on :  Why is the sun up sometimes and not at other times?

SELS/Health lessons

• Calming strategies
• Finding trusted resources

Interested in volunteering at Randall or chaperoning a field trip with your student's class? - start the process by visiting the Volunteering page at MMSD’s website.