What's Up in 5th Grade? (Week # 33)

 


Calendar
Friday, May 8th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Week of May 11-15th- Randall Book Fair
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

    Oldie, but Goodies
    • Randall Book Fair will be the week of May 11th-15th.  If you would like to donate funds for our classroom libraries, the links are below:
    • Over the next few weeks, we will engage in our final round of MMSD assessments for the year.  Your child will be assessed on reading fluency, reading comprehension, microphases (spelling) and a final math interim assessment.   
    • 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
    •  We have sent 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.
    Math
    •  Unit 7 in our Bridges Curriculum will focus on division of whole numbers and fractions.  
    • This week we continued our work at a deeper level and started to integrate these skills with story problems. 
    • During the week of May 11, we will work in Unit 7 and take a district assessment for math at the end of the week. 
    • During the week of May 18th, we will work in Unit 7 and take the Bridges Interim Assessment #3.
    • During the week of May 22nd we will officially finish the 5th grade Bridges curriculum and for the remainder of the year, we will revisit some skills that could use some extra practice before summer. 
    • 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. 
    • We will continue to work on speaking and writing about what we read.  
    • This week we FINISHED our comparison essay between Jackie Robinson's factors for success with another athlete that broke a social barrier.
    • We then worked on a final project for this module.  They are creating and will present a slideshow on Factors of Success for Athlete Leaders of Social Change.  
    • Once this module is complete, students will be choosing chapter books among various genres to simply read and then, using a variety of activity options, summarize their book. 
    • 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--Complete 
    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?
    Science --Earth Systems --Started this week
    We started our fourth unit of science this week: Earth Systems as we answer the question:
    What can determine how much water is available for human use?
    • Our first chapter will focus on :  Why is East Ferris running out of water while West                                                                   Ferris is not?
    • Our second chapter will focus on : Why does more rain form over West Ferris than                                                                       East Ferris? 
    • Our third chapter will focus on :  Why is more water vapor getting cold over West                                                                     Ferris than East Ferris?
    • Our fourth chapter will focus on :  Why is there more water vapor hugh up over                                                                         West Ferris than East Ferris?
    SELS/Health lessons
    • Middle School Transition

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