What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #31)

 

Calendar

Thursday, May 1st--Drum performance for school

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

Monday, May 12th--5th Grade Talent Show Tryouts

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

Monday, June 9th--PTO/PEG Ice Cream Social at Brittingham Park Shelter 5:30-7:00

Tuesday, June 10th--Music Concert/Moving On Celebration (1:00 pm-2:30 pm)

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

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

New News

• Permission slips for our last two field trips will be coming home on Monday, April 28th.
• Remember, no school for students next Friday, May 2nd for Teacher Professional Development.

Oldie, but Goodies

• Please consider joining us for our upcoming field trips as a chaperone.
Thursday, June 5th--All day field trip to Lake Kegonsa 
Wednesday, June 11th-- 11:00 am-2:00 pm Vilas Park

In order for Thursday, June 5th to be a success, we need as many parent volunteers as possible.  More parents allow for smaller groups and flexibility for everyone.  If you are able, we would appreciate any help on June 5th.

In order for you to be a chaperone, you will need to be approved for Level 2 volunteering tasks which involves a background check.  I recognize this can be an inconvenience, but unless we have you on our Level 2 approved list, we can not allow you to join us........  start the process by visiting the Volunteering page at MMSD’s website.

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Math

• We finished, reviewed and assessed Unit 6 this week.
• Unit 7 will be on Division of fractions and whole numbers.
• After Unit 7 we will reflect on the areas of the 5th grade curriculum that might need a bit more review and that will take us to the end of the year :) 
• Our April Number Corner will be focused on some review of volume, fractions and  decimals.
• Our May Number Corner will be focused on ordered pairs/graphing skills and converting liquid measurement from customary units to metric units. 

Literacy this week

• This week we started Module 3 Unit 3.  We will be answering the question "How have athletes broken barriers during the historical era in which they lived?" 
• In Unit 3, we will be comparing various athletes that broke some type of a barrier.  We will compare and contrast the factors that led these athletes to break a social barrier with what we have learned about Jackie Robinson. 
• This week we researched other athletes and began planning for our Compare and Contrast Essay.  
• Next week, we will write/revise/edit the essays.  
• Our final project will be to create some posters that express our learning. 
• 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.  

Social Studies--

• We started our next mini-unit for social studies.  We are learning about the Ojibway.  
• We are 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 Wisconsin.
• We will be in this unit for about two weeks. 
• After social studies, we will take some time to do our Human Growth and Development for 5th grade.

SELS/Health lessons

• Advocacy--The Power of Words
• 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.    

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.