What's Up in 5th Grade? Week # 4

 

Calendar

Friday, September 15- Sunday, October 15th--Hispanic Heritage Month

Friday, October 6th--Randall Fun Run (See separate blog post)

Tuesday, October 10th--Academic Success Night 5:30-7:00 

(5:30-6:30 classrooms are open)

Friday, October 20--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Tuesday, October 31--Mid Day Release for students--Teacher
                                         planning/prep for conferences

Thursday, November 2nd--Evening Conferences

Friday, November 3rd--No school for students--Conference Day

Monday, November 6th--2nd Quarter begins

Wednesday, November 22nd-Friday, November 24th--Fall Break

Wednesday, December 20th--No school for students--Teacher PD 

Thursday, Dec.21st-Tuesday, Jan. 2--Winter Break

Wednesday, January 3rd--School begins again!!!

Monday, January 15th-No school for Martin Luther King, Jr Day

Friday, January 26th--No school for students--Grade reporting day

Monday, January 29th--3rd Quarter begins

Friday, February 16th--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Monday, March 25th-29th--Spring Break

Monday, April 1st--School begins again!!!

Monday, April 8th--4th Quarter begins

Thursday, April 11th-Evening conferences

Friday, April 12th--No school for students--Conference Day

Monday, April 15th--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Friday, May 24th--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Monday, May 27th--No school for Memorial Day

Thursday, June 6th--Last day of school!!!

New News

• West Homecoming Parade was amazing!!!!  Go Regents!!
• Next Friday is our Randall Rally so make sure your 5th grader is dressed for a run.

Oldie, but Goodies

• Students will need headphones and a computer mouse at school.  Please send this in as soon as you can--Thanks!
• Ask your 5th grader about our monarch butterflies!
• Make sure to check out the other blog post that gives information about the Randall Rally!!
• Raccoon Rally Volunteer Signup. 
  
  
  

Math

• Our September Number Corner this month will focus on making connections between numbers written as fractions and decimals and start our work with volume in tangible and strategic ways. 
• This week we worked with strategies for multiplication and reviewed prior learning before we took the first part of the Unit 1 assessment.  Next week we will teach, practice and assess strategies for division of whole numbers.  

Literacy this week

• Our first EL Module is about Human Rights and we will be using the book Esperanza Rising as a mentor text.  
• This week we talked about and practiced how to accurately quote from a text and summarize learning from a chapter. 
• We continued to work with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to make connections. 
• We participated in our first Language Dive where we deconstructed sentences. 
• On Friday we had a virtual author visit from Grace Lin. 

Science 

• Our first unit is called  Patterns of Earth and Sky and we are answering the question:

Why do we see stars at different times?

• Our second chapter's guiding question is:  Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?

SELS/Health lessons

• I Am Me Poetry
• Finding health resources

Interested in volunteering at Randall or chaperoning a field trip with your student's class? - start the process by visiting the Volunteering page at MMSD’s website.