What's Up in 5th Grade?

 

Calendar

Friday, October 6th--Randall Fun Run (more info to come)

Tuesday, October 10th--Academic Success Night(more info to come)

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

• This week and next on Thursday afternoon, your 5th grader met/will meet with Randall's social worker to engage in the district mandated CPU (Child Protective Units) lessons.  This week we sent home some letters explaining what we would be covering. We encourage you to ask your 5th grader what was covered. 
• Raccoon Rally Volunteer Signup. 
  
  
  

Oldie, but Goodies

• Please remember to sign and return the Digital Device Agreement form to school.
• Students will need headphones and a computer mouse at school.  Please send this in as soon as you can--Thanks!

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 spent more time looking at, discussing and working with the concept of volume using a "real life scenario" called Bob's Baseballs.  Bob will be revisiting us throughout the year. The concept of volume will also come back in the Spring, so if there is confusion right now, there will be other opportunities later.  In addition, we worked with perimeter, area, arrays and strategies to help us figure these out. Finally, we started to explore the world of expressions, equations and order of operations.  This first unit is A LOT of new information.  Rest assured we will revisit as the year continues.
• We took the AMath assessment as a 5th grade to gather data to help us plan for instruction.

Literacy this week

• We will be doing a short book study that will compliment our first EL module.
• The book is called Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth (a Madison author) where we will begin the important discussion around human rights.
• We started working on our one on one initial fluency assessments with students for the year. Students also took the aReading assessment that will give us general idea of their comprehension skills. Using this data together will help us guide our instruction level moving forward. 
• Next week we begin our first module in EL!!

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 first chapter's guiding question is:  Why don't we see a lot of stars in daytime?

SELS/Health lessons

• What is Social Emotional Learning?
• Healthy Me, Well Me

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.