What's Up in 5th Grade? #29

 Calendar

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 (8:30 @ West)--Only Randall staff and students this year....we hope to try and live stream it.  More on this....

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

• Welcome back!!
• We did our Literacy Forward Testing this week.  Next week we will do math!
• Monday, April 8th will be a mid morning release for students at 10:35!
• Friday, April 12th will be a no school day for conferences.
• Monday, April 15th will be a no school day for teacher pd.
• Wednesday, April 10th we will be going on our field trip to the film festival!!
• Spring Conferences will be held next week (and the week after for Godfrey's Class)!  Please check the links below for your assigned time.   We only have 15 minutes for each family, so please be sure you are here and ready to go at your assigned time.  These are student led as your 5th grader will reflect on their learning this year using evidence from 3rd Quarter.  
Kampa Conference Sign-Up Link
Godfrey Conference Sign-Up Link
Faber Conference Sign-Up Link

Oldie, but Goodies

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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 worked  with a lot of geometry and volume review.  Next week we will add in some work with area and perimeter. 
• Next week we will also be doing Forward testing for math on Tuesday and Thursday during our  math time. 

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 worked on finishing up writing and revising our opinion essay.
• We also used some of our literacy time to prep for our student led conferences coming up.
• Next week we will begin Module 3 Unit 3.  We will start be doing some comparing and contrasting between athletes who worked for social change and putting our learning into writing. 

Science

• We are now in 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

• "Undefeated" reading/discussion--text about how Black Americans pushed back against unjust expectations 

• The video for  is posted April will soon be available via your child's Google Classroom. 
• Our focus this month will be on BEING AN ALLY and our goal is 1,200 paws to earn an EXTRA RECESS  in May!  

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.