What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week #31)

Calendar

Thursday, May 7th--Japanese Drum Performance @ 1:00 pm

Friday, May 8th--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Monday, May 25th--No school for Memorial Day

Monday, June 1st--Franklin/Randall End of Year Ice Cream Sandwich Social 

                                         at Brittingham Park Shelter 5:30-7:00 pm

Tuesday, June 2nd--Talent Show

Wednesday, June 3rd--Superbowl Football Games (all day)

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

• Next week we will be sending home permission slips for two more field trips at beginning of June.  We will need parent volunteers to join us at Lake Kegonsa to allow for more freedom of activities with smaller groups.  PLEASE consider joining us on Thursday, June 4th.  Chaperones do need to be Level 2 approved.  Here is the link you can use to make this happen. Please do this asap if you plan to join us so that the your application has time to be approved.  We can't allow parent chaperones who have not gone through this process to attend.  This is an MMSD rule.
• Interested in volunteering at Randall or chaperoning a field trip with your child's class - start the process now by visiting the Volunteering page at MMSD’s website.

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 finished our work in Unit 6 of the Bridges Curriculum. This unit was focused on graphing, geometry and volume.
• This week we finished our lessons, reviewed the unit and assessed 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 started Unit 3.  We did some additional learning, reading, research and discussions to explore other athletes that have broken a social barrier.  
• Next week we start to work on our comparison essay between Jackie Robinson's factors for success with another athlete that broke 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?
• Our fourth chapter will focus on :  How can we investigate why we see different                                                                       stars on different nights?

SELS/Health lessons

• Ally or Bystander?
• HGD letters were sent out