What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week # 4)
Calendar
Tuesday, October 7th--Picture Day
--Randall Success Night 5:30 pm
Friday, October 10th--West Homecoming Parade
Thursday, October 16th--No School for student/Teacher PD Day
Friday, October 17th--No School for students and staff- Mid Fall Break
Friday, October 24th- Randall Fun Run--5th Grade runs a 8:00 am
Friday, October 31st- Randall Fun Run rain date
Monday, November 3rd--No School for students--Teacher planning/prep for conferences
--Evening conferences
Tuesday, November 4th--No school for students/Conference Day
Thursday, November 6th--2nd Quarter begins
Thursday, November 13th-Picture Retake Day
Wednesday, November 26th-Friday, November 28th--Fall Break
Monday, December 1st--No school for students--Teacher PD
Friday, December 12th--Family Movie Night 6-8 pm Randall Cafeteria
Monday, Dec. 22nd-Tuesday, January 2nd--Winter Break
Monday, January 5th--School begins again!!!
Monday, January 19th-No school for Martin Luther King, Jr Day
Monday, January 30th--No school for students--Grade reporting day
Monday, February 2nd--3rd Quarter begins
Saturday, February 7th-- Glow Ball @ Franklin Elementary 5:30-7:30
Friday, February 20th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Monday, March 2nd--No School for students--Teacher planning/prep for conferences
--Evening conferences
Tuesday, March 3rd--No school for students/Conference Day
Saturday, March 14th--Super Science Saturday
Monday, March 23rd-27th--Spring Break
Monday, March 30th--School begins again!!!
Monday, April 6th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Tuesday, April 7th--4th Quarter begins
Friday, May 8th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Monday, May 25th--No school for Memorial Day
Tuesday, June 2nd--Talent Show
Thursday, June 4th--5th Grade Field Trip to......(tbd)
Tuesday, June 9th--Music Concert/Moving On Celebration (1:00 ish-2:30)
Wednesday, June 10th--Last day of school!!!
--5th grade field trip to Vilas Park (11am -2 pm)
New News
Oldie, but Goodies
- Advanced Learning Writing Opportunities
- Students will need headphones and a computer mouse at school. Please send this in as soon as you can--Thanks!
Math
- This week the 5th grade math class continued to work with volume, multiplication strategies using ratio tables and partial products.
- We continued our work with writing and solving numerical expressions.
- We reviewed and assessed the first three units in Module 1.
- Next week we will do some introduction of division strategies and do a quick assessment. Division is a concept that will continue to reappear throughout the year. We will focusing more on division in the second semester.
- Our Number Corner this month will focus on making connections between numbers written as fractions and decimals and start our work with volume in tangible and strategic ways.
Literacy this week
- We are continuing to work through Module 1/Unit 1.
- The texts we will be using are Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan and an abridged version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- We will be focusing on finding the gist of the text and expressing our learning in verbal and written communication.
- This week we focused on looking closely at and summarizing various articles in the UDHR in a paragraph format.
- We continued to follow Esperanza's story as her and her family fled Mexico to the United States. Ask your 5th grader to tell you about the story.
- For our ALL block this week, we engaged in various reading skill activities that include: fluency work, summarizing, discussion, grammar and vocabulary.
- Each classroom is doing a read aloud as well! Ask your 5th grader what book we are using.
Science
- Our first 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?
SELS/Health lessons
- What is SEL? (Social Emotional Learning)
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