What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #5)
Calendar
Tuesday, October 7th--Picture Day
--Randall Success Night 5:30 pm
Friday, October 10th--West Homecoming Parade @ 2:00 pm
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
- Fall Conferences are a month away on Monday, November 3rd in the evening and Tuesday, November 4th during the day. Please use the link below to sign up for a conference time that works for your family!
Oldie, but Goodies
- Next Tuesday is Picture Day!!
- Next Tuesday is Academic Success Night at Randall! (See calendar)
- String rental form https://forms.gle/
aV5EwwkMgamDwz7s9 Students will need to have this filled out to take their instruments home. Rental Agreement - Advanced Learning Writing Opportunities
Math
- This week the 5th grade math class finished our work in Unit 1.
- This week we a few days of some basic division strategies and then did 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.
- Next week we will begin Unit 2 on adding and subtracting fractions.
- October Number Corner will focus on collecting data from our carrots on their daily mass and creating a double line graph to document our findings. In addition, we will be observing the faces of various "buildings" to find the matching 3d version of the building.
Literacy this week
- This week we completed Module 1/Unit 1 and started Module 1/Unit 2
- 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 are will continue to work on speaking and writing about what we read.
- This week we finished Module 1/Unit 1 with another assessment based on explaining how characters' human rights were violated in a chapter. Students also were asked to answer questions using evidence from the text by quoting accurately.
- We also began Unit 2. In this unit we will be focusing heavily on explaining how the characters react differently in scenarios. Again, students will be asked to back up their thoughts with evidence quoted accurately from the text.
- 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?
- Our second chapter will focus on: Why do some salad dressings have sediments, and others do not?
SELS/Health lessons
- The Names We Want to Be Called
- CPU (Child Protective Unit) Lessons
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