Wednesday, February 14th--Valentine's Day (pass out valentines in the afternoon)
Friday, February 16th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Saturday, February 24th--Glow Ball Dance 2024 5:30-7:30 pm @ Randall
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 --5th Grade field trip to Vilas Park (late morning to early afternoon)
--Last day of school!!!
New News
Notice new dates on our calendar! We will continue to add new information to the calendar as things are shared with us.
5th grade will have 3 field trips this Spring. The first one is a film festival. There is no cost, but we can't take any chaperones. For the last two, we would love to have as many chaperones as we can! However, you do need to be Level 2 certified/approved to join us. It is a long process to be approved. If you think you might want to join us, please look at information on this process: 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.
Oldie, but Goodies
Grades will be posted in Infinite Campus on February 2nd
We are setting aside a time to pass out valentines on Wednesday, February 14th if your 5th grader would like to bring in something for their peers. (Class lists with names will come home.)
Math
- January Number Corner involves revisiting some volume work. Daily, we 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 completed Unit 4 in Bridges.
- Next week, we will begin Unit 5 which will be centered around multiplying and dividing fractions.
- February Number Corner will focus on finding the area of objects using fractions for dimensions. Students will also do some metric conversions using liquids. There will also be some problem strings that will support the learning we are doing in Unit 5 with multiplying fractions.
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 completed Unit 2 of Module 2 with a literary essay, fluency and summary assessment.
- Next week we will begin Unit 3 of Module 2. We will be looking at how to write an engaging narrative writing based on informative texts. In addition, we will thinking about how a narrator's point of view can influence how events in an narrative are described.
Science
- This week worked on 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 is: Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?
- Our second chapter's guiding question is: Why do some salad dressings have sediments, and others do not?
SELS/Health lessons
- Looking at "What do I Stand For?
- Stress Relief Tool Kits
- Watch the Randall Way video for January via your child's Google Classroom.
- 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/ Read-In/PJ day!! The video can be found in your child's Google Classroom. Since we did NOT meet our December paw goal, the January incentive of a PJ day will be added into our February incentive if we meet our goal.
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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