What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #29)

 

Calendar

Friday, May 2nd--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Monday, May 26th--No school for Memorial Day

Wednesday, May 28th--Strings Concert 10:45am-11:30 am 

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 for taking the time to engage with your child for their conferences :)
• Ask your 5th grader about the Film Festival on Thursday!!

Oldie, but Goodies

• Forward Testing Schedule:

Math :  7:50 am

Tuesday, April 8th  Wednesday, April 9th

Thursday, April 10th

Literacy--1:00 pm

Tuesday, April 8th-- Reading 

Tuesday, April 15th--Language/Writing

Wednesday, April 16th--Language/Writing

Math

• We finished our work with classifying polygons this week and then moved to more volume work and will continue with this work next week.
• We also did Forward testing during two of our math times this week. 
• Our April Number Corner will be focused on some review of volume, fractions and  decimals.

Literacy this week

• We are currently in Unit 2 of Module 3.  We will be answering the questions "How have athletes broken barriers during the historical era in which they lived?" and "What factors can contribute to an individual's success in changing society?" 
• This week we focused on our essays.  We will finish these up next week and then will begin Unit 3 of of Module 3.  This will be our LAST unit of this module!!
• For ALL Block, we continue to work with vocabulary words, writing responses to our reading and fluency work.  

Science--

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?
• We will be finishing this unit next week and then beginning a mini-unit in social studies (see below) that will last about two weeks.
• After social studies, we will take some time to do our Human Growth and Development for 5th grade.
• After Human Growth and Development, we will begin our last science unit--Earth Systems

Social Studies--

• Our next mini-unit for social studies will be about the Ojibway.  We will be using the text The Mishomis Book--The Voice of the Ojibway written by Edward Benton-Benai.  
• We will learn about their migration story and how it connects to northern WI.
• We will be in this unit for about two weeks. 

SELS/Health lessons

• No SELS/Health Lesson this week
• Randall Way Video for April is shared in your 5th grader's Google Classroom.  Our April goal is 1,250 paws by being an ALLY to try and earn an extra recess in May.  Our March goal was 1,00  paws to try and earn a Dance Party in April, but we were a little short.  

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.