What's Up in 5th Grade? #28

 

Calendar

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

Monday, April 8th--Mid Day Release @ 10:35 for Conference Prep

Tuesday, April 9th--Forward Math Assessment #1 @ 8:00 am

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

Thursday, April 11th-Forward Math Assessment #2 @ 8:00 am

Thursday, April 11th-Evening conferences

Friday, April 12th--No school for students--Conference Day

Monday, April 15th--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Friday, May 10--Land Acknowledgement Ceremony @ 1:30 pm

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

• Have a relaxing Spring Break!  

Oldie, but Goodies

• Spring Conferences will be held after Spring Break and will be led by the students as they reflect on their learning this year using evidence from 3rd Quarter.  Please sign up for a time with your 5th grader's teacher!

Kampa Conference Sign-Up Link
Godfrey Conference Sign-Up Link
Faber Conference Sign-Up Link

Math

• April Number Corner will be focused on some old favorites topics of volume and thinking of money and time when working with fractions and decimals as we review our skills with all four operations. 
• This week we finished up some work with coordinate grids, graphing and writing ordered pairs and looking for patterns with data.  Then we looked closely at quadrilaterals and comparing properties. 
• After Spring Break we will revisit our learning on volume. 

Literacy this week 

• We are in Module 3-Athlete Leaders of Social Change. 
• The text is Promises to Keep-How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.  
• This week we prepped and engaged in small group discussions about the factors that led to Jackie Robinson's success. 
• Then, we analyzed a model opinion essay and planned for one of our own.
•  After Spring Break we will revise and edit our drafts to close out Unit 2 in this module.  We hope to have some great samples of their writing to share at conferences. 

Social Studies

• We finished our mini-unit on Native American history.  We used the text The Mishomis Book--The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Banal to guide our learning for the next few weeks. 
• After Spring Break we will jump into our last science unit of the school year.

Science

• Next week we will begin our 4th science unit of the year: Earth Systems

•  The question we will be investigating and answering is:

What can determine how much water is available for human use?

• Our first chapter's guiding question is:  Why is East Ferris running out of water while West Ferris is not?

SELS/Health lessons

• Looking at Race and Racial Identity in Children's Books. 

• The video for March is posted via your child's Google Classroom. 
• Our focus this month will be on Integrity and our goal is  1,000 paws to earn a Dance Party in April! Stay tuned for the release of our April video :)

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.

What's Up in 5th Grade? #27

 

Calendar

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

Monday, April 8th--Mid Day Release @ 10:35 for Conference Prep

Tuesday, April 9th--Forward Math Assessment #1 @ 8:00 am

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

Thursday, April 11th-Forward Math Assessment #2 @ 8:00 am

Thursday, April 11th-Evening conferences

Friday, April 12th--No school for students--Conference Day

Monday, April 15th--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Friday, May 10--Land Acknowledgement Ceremony @ 1:30 pm

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

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Oldie, but Goodies

• Spring Conferences will be held after Spring Break and will be led by the students as they reflect on their learning this year using evidence from 3rd Quarter.  Please sign up for a time with your 5th grader's teacher!

Kampa Conference Sign-Up Link
Godfrey Conference Sign-Up Link
Faber Conference Sign-Up Link

My name is Mike Wolfgram.  I am the head football coach and coordinator for student engagement at Madison West.  I am writing to ask that you include information about our youth football camp in an upcoming newsletter for Randall.  The flyer is in both English and Spanish and if needed scholarships are available so that all kids can participate.  The flyer is attached to this email and this is a link to the regis

Thank you.




Mike Wolfgram - mwolfgram@madison.k12.wi.us

Madison West-Head Football Coach and Coordinator for Student Engagement

• Forward Exams are coming!!  Right now we are scheduling the Literacy Assessments the first week after Spring Break in the afternoon.  Math Assessments will be the following week.        (See Calendar) 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!

• 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:  start the process by visiting the Volunteering page at MMSD’s website.

Math

• March Number Corner will focus on estimation and multiplication of decimal numbers through the skill of finding area.  We will also be collecting and analyzing data based on the lengths of our math pencils during the month of March.  (You would be amazed at how few pencils make it to the end of the month....) Not only will we discuss the data, but we will also be compiling it into a line plot and making conclusive statements based on what we found. Finally, we will continue to practice and strengthen our division skills along with revisiting adding and subtracting fractions. 
• This week we started Unit 6.  For this week and most of next we will be looking for patterns and then graphing our data on a coordinate grid.  At the end of next week we will start looking closely at quadrilaterals and comparing properties. 

Literacy this week 

• We are in Module 3-Athlete Leaders of Social Change. 
• The text is Promises to Keep-How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.  
• This week we used a variety of media to learn more about Jackie Robinson through multiple points of view.  We then practiced writing paragraphs that compared and contrasted points of view.  We also prepped for small group discussions about the factors that led to Jackie Robinson's success. 
• Next week, we write the first draft of an opinion essay.  After Spring Break we will revise and edit our drafts to close out Unit 2 in this module. 

Social Studies

• We began a another mini-unit on Native American history.  We will be using the text The Mishomis Book--The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Banal to guide our learning for the next few weeks. 
• This week we learned about the Seven Fires and the migration of the Anishinabe

SELS/Health lessons

• Being an Ally: Issues of Racism

• The video for March is posted via your child's Google Classroom. 
• Our focus this month will be on Integrity and our goal is  1,000 paws to earn a Dance Party in April!

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.

What's Up in 5th Grade? #26

 

Calendar

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

Sunday, March 10th--Daylight Savings Day  (Spring forward one hour!!)

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

Monday, April 8th--Mid Day Release @ 10:35 for Conference Prep

Tuesday, April 9th--Forward Math Assessment #1 @ 8:00 am

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

Thursday, April 11th-Forward Math Assessment #2 @ 8:00 am

Thursday, April 11th-Evening conferences

Friday, April 12th--No school for students--Conference Day

Monday, April 15th--No school for students--Teacher PD day

Friday, May 10--Land Acknowledgement Ceremony @ 1:30 pm

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

• Don't Forget to Spring Forward one hour on Sunday!! (Daylight Savings)

• Spring Conferences will be held after Spring Break and will be led by the students as they reflect on their learning this year using evidence from 3rd Quarter.  Please sign up for a time with your 5th grader's teacher!

  
  

Kampa Conference Sign-Up Link

Godfrey Conference Sign-Up Link

Faber Conference Sign-Up Link

• My name is Mike Wolfgram.  I am the head football coach and coordinator for student engagement at Madison West.  I am writing to ask that you include information about our youth football camp in an upcoming newsletter for Randall.  The flyer is in both English and Spanish and if needed scholarships are available so that all kids can participate.  The flyer is attached to this email and this is a link to the registration form.  

Thank you.

Mike Wolfgram - mwolfgram@madison.k12.wi.us

Madison West-Head Football Coach and Coordinator for Student Engagement

Oldie, but Goodies

• Forward Exams are coming!!  Right now we are scheduling the Literacy Assessments the first week after Spring Break in the afternoon.  Math Assessments will be the following week.        (See Calendar) 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!

• 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:  start the process by visiting the Volunteering page at MMSD’s website.

Math

• March Number Corner will focus on estimation and multiplication of decimal numbers through the skill of finding area.  We will also be collecting and analyzing data based on the lengths of our math pencils during the month of March.  (You would be amazed at how few pencils make it to the end of the month....) Not only will we discuss the data, but we will also be compiling it into a line plot and making conclusive statements based on what we found. Finally, we will continue to practice and strengthen our division skills along with revisiting adding and subtracting fractions. 
• This week we were in assessment mode :)  We reviewed and took the Unit 5 Assessment. Then, we took the Bridges Assessment #2 .
• We will begin Unit 6 next week!  For this unit, we will be learning more about graphing, geometry and volume (again).

Literacy this week 

• We are in Module 3-Athlete Leaders of Social Change. 
• The text is Promises to Keep-How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson.  
• This week we completed Module 3 Unit 1 with some close reading and summary writing.  We also started Unit 2.  We were able to listen to an audio recording of something Jackie Robinson wrote, take notes and work with some vocabulary words. 
• Next week, we will focus on understanding points of view and using some mixed media to support our learning of Jackie Robinson.

Science

• This week we completed our third science unit of the year: Modeling Matter. 
• We will take a break from science for a few weeks and dig into some Native American learning.  After Spring Break we will begin our fourth and final science unit titled  The Earth System. 

Social Studies

• We began a another mini-unit on Native American history.  We will be using the text The Mishomis Book--The Voice of the Ojibway by Edward Benton-Banal to guide our learning for the next few weeks. 
• This week we started by sharing what we already knew about the Ojibway and looked at some of their history using the text and maps.

SELS/Health lessons

• Advocacy
• Ability

• Once we have access for March, we will post the Randall Way video for March via your child's Google Classroom. 
• Our focus this month will be on Integrity and our goal is  1,000 paws to earn a Dance Party in April!

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.

Conference Sign-Up Links

 

• Spring Conferences will be held after Spring Break and will be led by the students as they reflect on their learning this year using evidence from 3rd Quarter.  Please sign up for a time with your 5th grader's teacher!

  
  

Kampa Conference Sign-Up Link

Godfrey Conference Sign-Up Link

Faber Conference Sign-Up Link