What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #21)

 

Calendar

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

Friday, February 14th--Author's Tea in 5th Grade to celebrate African American authors

Friday, February 14th--Pass out valentines in class (Optional)

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

Thursday, February 27th--Hamilton Open House for families A-L

Tuesday, March 4th--Hamilton Open House for families M-Z

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--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

• Friday, February 28th we will have our January reward day of:         PJ/Stuffy/Read-In Day (details to come later)
• Hamilton Open House for families:

  Thurs Feb 27 (A-L) & Tuesday March 4 (M-Z)

  Time: 6-7:30 open house

• In preparation for our student led conferences in April, we will be collecting "evidence of student work" for them to discuss with you. Therefore, you may not be seeing as much work coming home, but you will receive all of it at their conferences. Sign Up Genius for these conferences will come in early March.

Oldie, but Goodies

• Valentine's Day will be on the same day as our Author's Tea. We will find time for the 5th grader's to pass out valentines to their peers. This is OPTIONAL. We just ask that if your 5th grader brings valentines that they bring one for everyone in the class. Your 5th grader's teacher will send a list of names if your kiddo would like to participate. Thanks!

• Please update your emergency contact information!! We are sending home a form today that will give you three options on how to do this.

• Please check your email or see separate post about our Black History Month project and Author's Tea Sign-up.

• It looks like we are starting to deplete our Cheerios stash for snack time. If you are able and willing, we would appreciate your donations of Cheerios (no flavored kinds....just plain) or similar off brands. Thank you!!!

Math

• This week in Unit 4, we finished up with this work, reviewed the unit and took the assessment. 
• Unit 5 will be on multiplying and dividing with fractions. 
• Our February Number Corner will be focused on finding the area of objects using multiplication of fractions.  In addition, we will work with the metric system as we measure, convert milliliters to liters, record our findings, make predictions for liquid measurement. 

Literacy this week

• We finished up our in Module 2 Unit 2 with some fluency and writing a literary paragraph based on a section from our text by Kathryn Lasky.  We also started Unit 3 where students will work on an independent slideshow based on rainforest books they are reading.  They will also write a non-fiction narrative. 
• For ALL Block, we continue to work with vocabulary words, writing responses to our reading and fluency work.  

Science---Our third unit of study will be on Modeling Matter and will begin next week!!

Social Studies (Black History Month)

• We are reading and discussing books by African American authors with our reading partners.  
• We are looking forward to sharing our books with one another at our Author's Tea on Friday, February 14th. 

SELS/Health lessons

• Managing stress
• Randall Way Video for February is shared in your 5th grader's Google Classroom.  Our February goal is 1,100  paws to try and earn a Game Day in March.

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.