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

 

Calendar

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

Friday, October 11--Child Protective Lessons with Ms. Kati in the afternoon (1/2 hour)

Friday, October 18--Child Protective Lessons with Ms. Kati in the afternoon (1/2 hour)

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 was great to see so many faces on Tuesday night!  Enjoy your long weekend :)

Oldie, but Goodies

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

Math

• This week the 5th grade math class work through Module 4 on some basic division strategies.  We plan to do a review on Monday and then assess that learning on Tuesday. 
• On Wednesday we will begin Unit 2 that will be focused on fraction work!!!  Remember, fractions are FUN!!
• Our October Number Corner will focus on gathering, analyzing and making predictions on data we collect on a daily basis using carrots.  In addition, we will be observing viewpoints of 3-dimensional buildings and using our knowledge of volume and shapes to uncover the "mystery buildings"

Literacy this week

• Wow!  We are already done with the first EL unit of the year based on Stories of Human Rights. This week we took an end of the unit assessment.  Next week we will start Unit 2.  We will begin the chapter by looking at models of character reaction paragraphs.  The next step is for the students to try writing these.  We will continue to work our way through the book as well.  
• Fair warning:  The amount of writing expected in the 5th grade curriculum jumps dramatically from 4th grade.  There are some growing pains with this jump and we are finding where there are holes we are hoping to fill with their writing skills.  
• For ALL Block, we will be working with vocabulary words, writing responses to our reading and fluency work.

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

• Intersectionality
• Learning to be a critical consumer
  
• Randall Way Video for October is shared in your 5th grader's Google Classroom. October goal is 1200 paws to try and earn an extra recess.

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.