What's Up in 5th Grade? #17

 

Calendar

Monday, January 15th-No school for Martin Luther King, Jr Day

Tuesday, January 16th--Lockdown drill for Randall

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

Saturday, February 24th--Glow Ball Dance 2024 5:30-7:30 pm

Saturday, March 9th--Super Science Saturday  9:00 am-1:00 pm

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

• Today we had a visit from the Multico performance group from West High School.  This is always a treat to have them come and talk about important social issues in our schools.  Ask your 5th grader about what they saw!

Oldie, but Goodies

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Math

• January Number Corner involves revisiting some volume work.  Daily, are given a "building" to observe, describe and look for patterns as it continues to grow.  When a building is complete, we use our observations to create a formula/algebraic expression that would work if the building continued to grow.  In addition, we are able to see how we can find the volume of a composite figure by looking at the rectangular prisms that work together to create the whole. In addition, we are doing some problem solving with adding fractions of money and time.
• This week we started Unit 4 on multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals.

Literacy this week 

• Our second EL Module which is about rainforest canopies.  We will be using the narrative nonfiction text The Most Beautiful Roof in the World as well as a variety of other articles and text support our reading and writing.
• This week used a mid-unit assessment to remind of what we were doing before break with non-fiction text structures and summaries.  Then we started to learn the process for science talks.  Next week, students will lead and participate in a science talk as a way to assess learning at the end of Module 2 Unit 1. 
• During our ALL Block, students are working to find the main idea/key details in a text.  

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?
• Our third chapter's guiding question is: Why aren't cecropia trees growing and thriving in the soil?

SELS/Health lessons

• Substance abuse and your brain
• What is Race and Racism?
• Watch the Randall Way video for January via your child's Google Classroom. (Coming soon!!)
•  Our focus this month  ?????????and we are working towards a goal of  ?????? Raccoon Paws to earn a  February ??????!! (TBD 😁)
  
  

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.