Thursday, December 14th--Wright Middle School comes to talk to 5th graders
Tuesday, December 19th--December Movie Reward/5th Grade Pajama Day!!
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
Next week Wright Middle School will be coming to talk to our 5th graders about their campus. Be sure to ask your child about this. Applications are on-line (see information below)
Tuesday, December 19th will be a pajama day for 5th grade. Please remember........
- No slippers
- Dress in layers as you will be going outside for recess time.
- One "stuffie" is allowed, but must be able to easily sit on top of or in the desk while allowing room work to be completed.
- No pillows.
- This is an OPTIONAL activity.
Oldie, but Goodies
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.
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 and worked with metric conversions.
- This week, we continued metric conversions, reviewed our decimal learning and took part one of the math test. Then we revisited some division with larger numbers.
- Next week, we will do a little more division and assess. Finally, we will take the Bridges Interim Assessment #1 and our winter AMath. We will finish out our math classes with a variety of review work until Winter Break. In January, we will start Unit 4 on multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals.
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 finished and presented our monologues!!
- We also introduced 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 was: 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
- Determining the actual size/reaction to a problem
- Setting personal goals for health eating
- Watch the Randall Way video for December via your child's Google Classroom.
- Our focus this month using integrity in the bathroom and we are working towards a goal of 1000 Raccoon Paws to earn a January pajama day!!
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.
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