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!!!

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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.