What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #30)

 

Calendar

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 Lake Kegonsa 

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  (9:30am -12:45 pm)

                                       --West High School graduate walk through at Randall (12:45)

New News

• Ask your 5th Grader what was their favorite short film from the field trip on Thursday!!

Oldie, but Goodies

• Human Growth and Development Dates

                         Faber  5/5, 5/7, 5/12

                    Kampa  5/12, 5/14, 5/19

                    Dickerson 5/19, 5/21, 5/26

Math

• We are working in Unit 6 of the Bridges Curriculum. This unit will be focused on graphing, geometry and volume.
• This week we went back to our old friend of volume :)  
• Next week we will finish this work, review the unit and assess our learning.  
• During the week of April 27th, we will begin our LAST UNIT in 5th grade Bridges!!!  Unit 7 will focus on division of whole numbers and fractions.  
• April Number Corner will focus on volume, decimals and fraction relationships and story problems involving each of these concepts. 
• May Number Corner will focus on ordered pairs, coordinate grids, customary units in measuring volume with liquids and using conversion strategies to go from cups to ounces.

Literacy this week

• This week we continued our work in Module 3 of EL titled-- Athlete Leaders of Social Change.  
• We are reading a non-fiction text called  Promises to Keep by Sharon Robinson. She is the daughter of Jackie Robinson and we will learn a lot about his personal and professional history and his journey to become an inspirational athlete for social change. 
• In this unit we focusing on thinking about factors that helped Jackie Robinson becoming a leader for social change. 
• We will continue to work on speaking and writing about what we read.  
• This week we completed our opinion essay on factors that we thought led to Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in the MLB.  This was also the end of Unit 2 in this module.
• Next week we will begin Unit 3 where we expand our learning, reading, research and discussions to explore other athletes that have broken a social barrier.
• 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 --Patterns of Earth and Sky 

Our third unit in science will be: Patterns of Earth and Sky as we answer the question:

Why do we see different stars at different times?

• Our first chapter will focus on :  Why don't we see a lot of stars in the daytime?
• Our second chapter will focus on :  Why is the sun up sometimes, but not other times? 
• Our third chapter will focus on :  Why do we see different stars at different times of                                                                                                                            the year?

SELS/Health lessons

• Just Ask--Learning About Differences
• HGD letters were sent out