What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #22)

Calendar

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

Thursday, February 27th--Hamilton Open House for families A-L @ 6:00 pm

Friday, February 28th--PJ/Stuffy/Read IN Day!!!

Tuesday, March 4th--Hamilton Open House for families M-Z @ 6:00 pm

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 (1:00-2:30)

Wednesday, June 11th--Last day of school!!!

                                       --5th grade field trip to Vilas Park  (11am -2 pm)

New News

• Thank you to all the families that contributed to our Author's Tea this Friday!!
• 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

Oldie, but Goodies

• 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.

Math

• This week we started Unit 5.  This week we worked with strategies for multiplying fractions using models and used these strategies to solve story problems. 
• Next week we will focus on multiplying fractions by fractions using models and strategies. 
• 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. 
• Our March Number Corner will be focused on area of objects using multiplication of decimals.   In addition, each week we will be gathering data of pencil lengths, placing the data in a line plot, analyzing data and making predictions.

Literacy this week

• We worked in Module 2 Unit 3.  This week students planned for, created, wrote and revised a non-fiction narrative story based on our text by Kathryn Lasky.  They will finish up this work next week. Students will also work on an independent slideshow based on rainforest books they are reading. 
• For ALL Block, we continue to work with vocabulary words, writing responses to our reading and fluency work.  

Social Studies

• Students shared and made recommendations about the books they what they read over the past few weeks  during our Author's Tea today.  

Science--Starting Next Week!! 

• Our third unit will be on Modeling Matter as we answer the question: What happens when two substances are mixed together?

• Our first chapter will focus on : Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?
• Our second chapter will focus on : Why do some salad dressings have sediments and others do not?
• Our third chapter will focus on : Why can salad dressing ingredients separate again after being mixed?

SELS/Health lessons

• Stress Relief Toolkit
• 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.