What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #8)
Calendar
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
- Thank you all for helping to make the Randall Relay a success!! A grand time was had by all!!
- Ask your kiddos about the Opera for the Young performance on Tuesday morning. It was a fun and beautiful event :)
- Remember there is no school Monday, November 3rd for a staff PD day and Tuesday, November 4th for Fall Conferences.
- Looking ahead.......Wright Middle School has generously offered to provide bus transportation for our 5th grade classes to come take a tour in early November! This is for all students even if they know they want to attend Hamilton next year. What a treat :)
Oldie, but Goodies
- Fall Conferences are just over a week away! If you have not yet signed up, please use the link below to select a time. If you need a reminder for your time, you can also use the links below. See you soon!
Math
- This week continued to strengthen our skills with adding and subtracting fractions by finding common denominators.
- Next week we will finish up Module 3, review Modules 1-3 and take the assessment.
- The week after this will be a mini-unit on GCF and LCM.
- Unit 3 will begin the week of November 10th. This unit will be on place value and decimals.
- 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.
- November Number Corner will focus on classifying triangles based on angles and lengths of sides. In addition, we will include some work with coordinate grids and transformations. Finally, we will introduce and look for patterns when comparing measurements within the metric system for length.
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. This week we completed a mid-unit assessment that involved organizing their thoughts from the text so that could complete another character reaction paragraph along with answering some questions about metaphors.
- We also looked at and worked with some 2-voice poetry.
- Finally, we used a model to analyze what would go into a literary essay based on character reactions.
- Next week, students will be working on creating their own character reaction essay.
- 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?
Social Studies--Starting next week!!
- We are using a text called Mountain Wolf Woman-A Ho-Chunk Girlhood by Diane Holliday.
- We will be reading, engaging in discussion, working with vocabulary and various activities to try and gain a deeper understanding of the Ho-Chunk nation.
- We will be in this unit for 3 weeks.
SELS/Health lessons
- Zones of Regulation
- Listening for Caring Communication
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