What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #35)

 

Calendar

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

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

Thursday, May 29th-Last 10 5th Grade Fun Days of Fun begins!! 

Monday, June 2nd--Randall Talent Show

Tuesday, June 3rd--Super Bowl Day

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

Friday, June 6th--PJ/Stuffy/Movie Day

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

• Remember, there is no school on Monday, May 26th in celebration of Memorial Day.  Have a great long weekend!
• Next Friday we will have "Game Day" for our end of year activities.  We did do this earlier in the year, too.  If your 5th grader has a favorite BOARD game that they would like to bring in to share, that would be great!!
• Tuesday, June 3rd will be the Super Bowl Day at Randall.  Please make sure if your 5th grader will be participating that day they have plenty of sunscreen and appropriate clothing for the weather.  Those NOT participating will be an audience at various times throughout the day and should also have their sunscreen and appropriate clothing :)

Oldie, but Goodies

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Math

• Unit 7 focus is on division of fractions and whole numbers. We are exploring different division strategies and with whole number, fractions and decimals. 
• This week we worked with multiplication and division involving powers of 10.  
• Next we will finish up Unit 7, review and assess the whole unit. 
• 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 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 continued to work on our end of year chapter book reading/projects!
• It is great to see them all with books in their hands :)

Social Studies

• Whenever we can find some time in these past few weeks, we will be doing some map skills learning about the United States. 

Science

Our fourth unit will be on Earth Systems:  We will work to answer the question: What can determine how much water is available for human use?

• Our first chapter will focus on : Why is East Ferris running out of water while West Ferris is not? 
• Our second chapter will focus on : Why does more rain form over West Ferris than East Ferris? 
• Our third chapter will focus on : Why is there more water vapor getting cold over West Ferris than East Ferris?
• Our fourth chapter will focus on : Why is there more water vapor high up over West  Ferris than East Ferris?
• Our fifth chapter will focus on : How can East Ferris turn wastewater into clean freshwater? 

SELS/Health lessons

• We are finished with all of our SELS and Health lessons for the year. 
• Randall Way Video for May is shared in your 5th grader's Google Classroom.  Our May goal is 1,100 paws by being an ALLY to try and earn a popsicle treat.  

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.