Wednesday, February 14th--Valentine's Day (pass out valentines in the afternoon) and
January Reward Day for PJ/Stuffy/Read In
Friday, February 16th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Thursday, February 29th--5th Grade Battle of the Books @ 12:55 (virtual link below)
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
Wednesday, January 14th
5th Grade
January Reward Day
In addition to any valentines that might want to be passed out that day, we are also going to do our January PJ/Stuffy/Read In Reward Day.
- No slippers
- One stuffy that can fit on/in your desk
- Pajamas must be school/weather appropriate
- Students must dress appropriately for the weather (layers?) so that they are able to go outside to recess.
Battle of the Books: Let your family know that they can come support you. If they can't attend in person they can watch the competition over Google Meet at this link. Please ask them to log on early before the Battle.
Oldie, but Goodies
- 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.
Grades were 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
- 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.
- This week, we started Unit 5 which will be centered around multiplying and dividing fractions. We started this week with looking at different strategies to use for multiplying fractions and applying them with story problems.
- Next week, we will work on multiplying fractions by 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 we started 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.
- Students will be writing a narrative based on a scene out of text for their performance task to end this module.
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
- Intersectionality
- Sleep Tight/Rest Well
- Watch the Randall Way video for February via your child's Google Classroom.
- Our focus this month will be on handling bullying behavior and our goal is 1,100 paws to earn a game day in March.
- We earned our January paws and soon we will pick a date for our February Stuffy/ Read-In/PJ 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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