What's Up in 5th Grade? #12 and#13

 

Calendar

Thursday, December 14th--Wright Middle School comes to talk to 5th graders

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

• 5th Graders were treated to a Jazz Concert this morning :)

• Middle School Lottery information from the Enrollment Office

  On Friday, December 1st, current 5th graders will start applying for one of the following Lottery Schools. Application will open  12/1/23 at 8:00 am and will close 01/27/24 at 4:00 pm. 

  • Badger Rock There is no attendance area preference. For more information on lottery criteria visit the following link - Middle School Lottery

  • Spring Harbor - Preference is given to students residing in the Memorial High attendance area. 

  • Wright - Preference is given to students that reside in the Elementary Schools feeding into West High.

Oldie, but Goodies

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Math

• December Number Corner will focus on classifying quadrilaterals, data collection and creating line and scatter plots.  The games we will learn will strengthen our skills of making equivalent decimals and fractions and division of whole numbers resulting in fractional answers. Finally, we will revisit our friend, the ratio table, to help us with multiplication and division of whole numbers and recognizing their relationships. 
• Last week, we looked for decimal equivalents for common fractions. We also learned a new game to help us practice our understanding of using adding and subtracting decimals to get to a whole.  
• This week, continued with finding fraction and decimal equivalents, as well as placing decimals on a number line. We also started looking at metric conversions.....why is this always harder than you might think it will be???? 
• Next week, will add in division work before we start our review of Unit 3.  
• The week of December 11-15 we will finish any review work for Unit 3, take the assessment for Unit 3,take the Bridges Interim Assessment #1and our winter AMath ....whew! 

Literacy this week

• Our first EL Module is about Human Rights and we are using the book Esperanza Rising as a mentor text.  
• Last week we finished up our final edits for our monologue.  
• This week we worked with groups to create a writing plan for an author's note for our presentation program.  Then we took the end of Unit 3 assessment which included some work with perfect verb tense, reading fluency, providing a verbal summary and an independent writing of the author's note based on their group's plan.  (Wow!  It was a lot!!)
• Next week we will practice and present our monologues!!  Then, we will finally close out our time with Esperanza Rising.
• We will then introduce our second EL Module which is about rainforest canopies.  We will be using the narrative nonfiction text The Most Beautiful Roof in the World. 

Science

• This week continued our second science unit of the year: Ecosystems Restoration 
•  The question we will be answering is:

How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and energy they need to grow and thrive?

• Our first chapter's guiding question is:  Why aren't the jaguars and sloths growing and thriving?
• Our second chapter's guiding question is: Why aren't cecropia trees growing and thriving?

SELS/Health lessons

• Cyberbullying/Bullying
• Setting personal goals
• Food groups around the world
• Watch the Randall Way video for November via your child's Google Classroom. 
• (This month is featuring students in Mrs. Faber's class!!!) 
•  Our focus this month RESOLVING CONFLICT and we are working towards a goal of 1,000 Raccoon Paws to earn a December Movie!!
  
  

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.