What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #6 and #7)
Calendar
Thursday, October 16th--No School for student/Teacher PD Day
Friday, October 17th--No School for students and staff- Mid Fall Break
Tuesday, October 21st--Opera for the Young @ 9:30
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
- Remember there is no school next Thursday, October 16th for a staff PD day and Friday, October 17th.
- Due to the short week next week, we will not be doing an updated blog. The next update will be on Friday, October 24th.
- Randall Relay is on Friday, October 24th. 5th Grade runs at 8:00 am!
Oldie, but Goodies
- 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!
- 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 began Unit 2 on adding and subtracting fractions.
- This week we focused on thinking about fractions using money and clocks. This is a continuation of what we did in September Number Corner.
- Next week we will continue our work with fractions by finding common denominators to add and subtract.
- 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 worked on 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. We did a class character reaction paragraph, a group character reaction paragraph and an individual one. We had to infer from the text, quote accurately and find evidence to support our thinking.
- 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?
- Our third chapter will focus on: Why can salad-dressing ingredients separate again after being mixed?
SELS/Health lessons
- Introduction to Zones of Regulation
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