What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week 12)

 

Calendar

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

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

Tuesday, December 3rd--Family Math Night (see separate post in blog) 5-6:30 pm

Wednesday, December 4th--Wright Middle School Showcase

Friday, December 13th--Franklin-Randall Movie Night 6:00 pm @Randall Gymnasium

Tuesday, December 17th--Multico Performance and Talk Back

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

Saturday, February 8th--Glow Ball @ Randall School 5:30-7:30 pm

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

Thursday, June 5th--5th Grade All Day Field Trip to Lake Kegonsa

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

• Please see other blog post for information on Badger Rock Middle School information and on Family Math Night :)
• Please make sure that your 5th grader has a warm jacket, gloves, hats, boots and snow pants if they plan to play in the snow.  Thanks!

Oldie, but Goodies

• Wednesday, December 4th--Wright Middle School Showcase

• There will not be an new blog post (Week 13) due to the Fall Break.  Week 14 will be updated on December 6th.
• If your 5th grader is going to have a planned absence, you will need to fill out an online form. Please remember to email your 5th grader's teacher as well.  Thank you!
• If you think you might want to join us on any of the second semester field trips, please consider completing the Level 2 volunteer training/re-enrolling your Level 2 status when you are contacted.  Every year we are in a scramble trying to families to complete the training in time.  Why stress?  Here is the information.
• 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.

Math

• This week we started Unit 3.  We actually started the unit by reviewing some fraction work.  Then we looked for patterns when multiplying and dividing by 10.  We reviewed place value and then started to write, compare, order, add and subtract 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 finished our revisions, rehearsed and presented our monologues to the class!  Module 1 is complete and we will begin Module 2 the first week in December.
• Next week we will take advantage of the short week and do a little creative writing. 
• For ALL Block, we continue to work with vocabulary words, writing responses to our reading and fluency work.  

Science 

• 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?

SELS/Health lessons

• Spread Care Project
• Conflict Resolution
• 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.