What's Up in 5th Grade? #23

Calendar

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!!!

Tuesday, April 2nd--Forward Literacy Assessment #1 @ 12:50 pm

Wednesday, April 3rd--Forward Literacy Assessment #2 @ 12:50 pm

Thursday, April 4th--Forward Literacy Assessment #3 @ 12:50 pm

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

• 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.  
• Forward Exams are coming!!  Right now we are scheduling the Literacy Assessments the first week after Spring Break in the afternoon.  (See Calendar)  Math Assessments schedule --TBD  If you can avoid being gone/scheduling appointments on these testing days, we would appreciate it!!Please make sure your child has headphones at school for testing days.  Thank you!

Oldie, but Goodies

• 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.  
• 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.

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 be some problem strings that will support the learning we are doing in Unit 5 with multiplying fractions. 
• This week and next week we will work on multiplying fractions by fractions and  model what this looks like. In addition, students are learning skills on how to convert improper fractions into mixed numbers (and the reverse) and simplifying fractions.
• In a few weeks we will graduate to talking about how to solve and model division of fractions and whole numbers. 

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 completed Module 2!!  Students completed their narrative writing and a variety of other connected literacy projects. 
• Next week we will begin Module 3-Athlete Leaders of Social Change.  The text is Promises to Keep-How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.  We will be focusing on reading  how to find and write about main ideas and key details.

Science

• This week we 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 and Social Identity
• Advertising Healthy Routines

• 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.

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.