What's Up in 5th Grade?

 

Calendar

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

Friday, September 22--Popcorn!!--canceled

Friday, September 29--Author virtual visit from 12-12:45

Friday, September 29--West Homecoming Parade 1:45 

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)

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

• Please make sure to check your child's backpack for their fundraising packet!!
• Ask your 5th grader about our monarch butterflies!
• Make sure to check out the other blog post that gives information about the Randall Rally!!

Oldie, but Goodies

• Students will need headphones and a computer mouse at school.  Please send this in as soon as you can--Thanks!
• This week we finished our CPU lessons with Ms. Kati. Last 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. 
  
  
  

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 continued to work with area, volume and multiplication of whole number strategies.
• Next week, we will continue to work with  strategies for multiplication and add in some 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 did some inferring around this topic and explored texts to help support our thinking.  We also spent time talking about discussion norms we will be using this year in EL.
• Because determining characteristics of ethical people will be a theme in this unit, we also spent some time thinking and discussing what this meant to us as a class and as individuals. 
• We explored the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to make connections.
• We began reading Esperanza Rising. 

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 is the sun up sometimes, but not other times?

SELS/Health lessons

• My many identities
• Finding trusted resources
• Child protective lessons

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.