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!
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.
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