What's Up in 5th Grade? #18

  

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

Wednesday, April 10th--Big Screens, Little Folks film festival field trip 9:15am-noon

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

• Reminder:  No school on Monday, January 15th and Friday, January 26th.

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.
• Last week we started Unit 4 on multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals.
• This week we focused on multiplication and the relationships between fractions  and decimals as operators in multiplication strategies. 
• Next week, we will move from multiple strategies for multiplication to the array strategy as we prepare to move into the algorithm for multiplication. 

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 students read to find evidence to support a new question:  "How can we help save the rainforests?" Then, students used their evidence and understanding of the topic to participate in a science talk as a way to assess learning at the end of Module 2 Unit 1. 
• Next week we will begin Unit 2 in Module 2.  We will read some new texts and find the "gist" of their meaning. 

Science

• This week finished with our second science unit of the year: Ecosystems Restoration 
•  The question we answered was:

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?

• Next week we will jump right into our third science unit of the year: Modeling Matter 
•  The question we will be investigating and answering is:

What happens when two substances are mixed together?

• Our first chapter's guiding question will be:  Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?

SELS/Health lessons

• Reviewing Decision Making
• What is Racism?
• Watch the Randall Way video for January via your child's Google Classroom. (Coming soon!!)
•  Our focus this month are kind behaviors on the bus and playground and we are working towards a goal of  1500 Raccoon Paws to earn a  February Stuffy and Read-In day!! The video can be found in your child's Google Classroom.
  
  

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.