What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week 10)

 

Calendar

Thursday, November 14th-Picture Retake Day

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

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

Wednesday, December 4th--Wright Middle School Showcase

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

Monday, June 2nd--Randall Talent Show

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 have time to talk about our learners with families this week! 
• Wednesday, December 4th--Wright Middle School Showcase 

Oldie, but Goodies

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Math

• This week we finished up Unit 2 on finding the Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor.  Next week we will begin Unit 3 on decimals. 
• Our November Number Corner will focus on identifying and classifying triangles, coordinate grids and ordered pairs and working with metric conversions!!  (Short month, but very busy.)
• Our December Number Corner will be focused on reviewing and adding to our knowledge and understanding of quadrilaterals.  In addition, we will continue to collect, graph, organize and analyze data, but we will have another set of data.  We will be using student height and feet length!  

Literacy this week

• This week we started our final Unit in Module 1.  Ask your child to describe what a monologue is and how that connects to our final project for Module 1.
• For ALL Block, we continue to work with vocabulary words, writing responses to our reading and fluency work.  

Science 

We will continue with our second unit in science the week of November 18th. Our next unit will be Ecosystem Restoration.

• Our second unit will be on Ecosystem Restoration as we answer the question: How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and energy they need to grow and thrive?

• Our first chapter will focus on : Why aren't the jaguars and slots growing and thriving?

Social Studies

• We are using a text called Mountain Wolf Woman-A Ho-Chunk Girlhood by Diane Holliday.
• We will be reading, engaging in discussion, working with vocabulary and various activities to try and gain a deeper understanding of the Ho-Chunk nation.
• We will be in this unit for 3 weeks.

SELS/Health lessons

• I Care for Myself
• Empathy and Perspective
• Randall Way Video for November is shared in your 5th grader's Google Classroom.  Our November goal is 1000 paws to try and earn a movie day in December.

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.