What's Up in 5th Grade? #8

  

Calendar

Tuesday, October 31--Mid Day Release for students @ 10:40 am--Teacher
                                         planning/prep for conferences

Thursday, November 2nd--Evening Conferences

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

Sunday, November 5th--Daylight Savings Day (Move your clocks back one hour)

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

Tuesday, June 4th--Randall Talent Show (time/place tbd)

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

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

New News

• Early Release on Tuesday, October 31st @ 10:40
• Conferences are next week on Thursday after school/evening and Friday.
• No School for students on Friday,  November 3rd

Oldie, but Goodies

• 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 focused 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.  
• November Number Corner will focus on classifying triangles, placing triangles on a coordinate grid and observing the triangles as they transform from day to day on the grid.  In addition, we will make conversions using the metric system and make connections between decimals and fractions.
• This week we took fraction checkpoints that worked with unlike denominators, fractions of a whole and some conceptual understanding of fractions.  We also worked with finding common denominators in order to add/subtract/compare fractions.
• Next week we will focus on revisiting and reviewing our fraction strategies and learning.  We will do a unit review to help us prepare for the test we will take the following Monday        (November 6th) after the long weekend.  After the test, we will take a few days to work with Greatest Common Factors and Least Common Denominators before we begin Unit 3. 
• 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 continued in Unit 2 in Module 1.  
• This week we worked with themes and metaphors.  We then did some peer reviews around our writing and even engaged in some two voice poetry.  
• Next week, we will deconstruct what a literary essay looks like and  and continue to talk about reactions that characters have in the story based on events that occur.  We are working our way up to writing a literary essay comparing the reactions of two characters for our end of unit assessment.  

Social Studies

• 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. 
• This week we read, discussed, explored vocabulary words and wrote responses to what we read. 

SELS/Health lessons

• Understanding Empathy
• Understanding conflict vs. bullying
• 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!!
  
  
  
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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.