What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week 7)

 

Calendar

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

Thursday, October 24th-Picture Day

Friday, October 25th--Jazz Concert 10:10-10:55 am

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)

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Oldie, but Goodies

• Picture Day is coming on Thursday, October 24! You can place your order on mylifetouch.com using your Picture Day ID: EVT22KHHH. Order before midnight on Picture Day to get FREE shipping! Your child can also bring their completed flyer with cash or check on Picture Day. Teachers should keep any order forms and bring them to the camera on Picture Day. Picture forms came home today :) 

• Don't forget to sign up for a conference time with your student's teacher!!
• Upcoming schedule changes:  

Friday, November 1st--Mid-Day Release for Conference Prep

Monday, November 4th--No School for students for Conferences

Tuesday, November 5th--No School for students for Teacher PD

Math

• This week we worked with money and clock faces to help us understand fractions.  We also started to think about finding fractions of whole numbers (IE--1/4 of 36).  We did a visual representation this week called the River Trail.  Ask your math student about it.
• Next week we will return to equivalent fractions and how we can use them to compare portions with different denominators. 
• 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

• This week we read  more chapters and wrote more paragraphs.  Everyone seems to be improving their writing skills with these activities.
• When we create our character reaction paragraphs, we are inferring information, finding evidence to support our thinking,quoting accurately and writing structured and supportive paragraphs.   
• Next week we will look at what a 2-Voice poem is and how we can create this using our text.
• After that, we will dig in and start to think about how the analyze and prepare to write our first literary essay of the year.  
• For ALL Block, we continue to work 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?
• Our third chapter will focus on :  Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?

SELS/Health lessons

• My Many Identities
• Peers, Family and Cultural Influences
• 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.