What's Up in 5th Grade? #6

Calendar

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

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

Thursday, October 26--Picture 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

Monday, May 20th--Kampa/Godfrey Strings Concert @ 11:00 am

Wednesday, May 22nd--Faber Strings Concert @ 10:30 am

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

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

Thursday, May 30th--5th Grade All Day Field Trip to Lake Kegonsa

Wednesday, June 5th--5th Grade Moving On Celebration/Music Concert 1:00 pm

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

New News

• Student Success Night was a blast!  It was great to see so many families coming to Randall to learn what we are doing in school every day!!  
• Next Friday there is no school for students.  Teachers will have a Professional Development Day.
• Tuesday, October 31st will be an early release day for students for teachers to prep for conferences.

Oldie, but Goodies

• Randall Picture Day ID with - EVTXHVBGJ. Picture Day is taking place on Thursday - October 26 starting at 7:50 in the cafeteria.
• Randall Clothing Store  Get some Randall clothes for you and your family :)

• Mrs. Kampa's November Conference Link
• Mrs. Faber - November Conference Sign Up
• Godfrey's Conference Link

Math

• Our October Number Corner this month will focus on collecting data and measuring mass over time on some funky looking carrots.  In addition we will be making observations on the top/front/side view of buildings and determining the shape they all make when put together.  
• This week we began Unit 2 where we will focus on how to add and subtract fractions.  We started with using clocks and money to help us add and subtract.  
• Next week we will focus on finding common denominators to add and subtract fractions.
• Check out what we will be doing in Unit 2!!
• https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/sites/default/files/documents/family/PAR-BR5-U2.pdf

Literacy this week

• Our first EL Module is about Human Rights and we are using the book Esperanza Rising as a mentor text.  
• This week we started Unit 2 in Module 1.  
• This week we talked about the reactions that characters have in the story based on events that occur.  We practiced how to infer information and back up our ideas with evidence from the text by quoting accurately from the text.  We also worked to put our ideas into a cohesive and structurally sound paragraph format.  

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 third chapter's guiding question is:  How can we investigate why we see different stars on different nights? 
• During the  weeks of October 16, 23 and 30th, our 5th graders will do a short unit on Native Americans.  We will be using the text Mountain Wolf Woman by Diane Holliday to guide our learning. 

SELS/Health lessons

• Understanding gender identity
• Understanding personal identities
• Watch the Randall Way video for October (Featuring Kampa Class!!)  Our focus this month is being kind and we are working towards a goal of 1200 Raccoon Paws to earn an extra recess!!
• ( You may need to copy and paste the link address in a new tab)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_LfBopeLPU

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.