What's up in 5th Grade? #31

 

 Calendar

Thursday, April 25th--Randall Lockdown Drill (email was sent to families)

Tuesday, April 30th--Book Share Day

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

Monday, May 20th--5th Grade Talent Show Tryouts

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

• Two end of year permission slips will be coming home Monday, April 22nd.  Please return these by Monday, May 13th.  For our trip on May 30th, we really need as many chaperones as possible.  Please consider joining us that day.  You will need to be a level 2 certified volunteer. start the process by visiting the Volunteering page at MMSD’s website. Thank you!!

Oldie, but Goodies

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 reviewed all of Unit 6 and took the end of unit assessment. Next week we will begin Unit 7 which is our last unit of the Bridges curriculum for this year.  Unit 7 will be centered around division and decimals.  We will finish off the year by revisiting some of our earlier work in the year.

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 continued in Module 3 Unit 3 by learning about another athlete Jim Abbott. In addition, students picked another athlete who was also a leader in social change to research.
• We will start be doing some comparing and contrasting between athletes who worked for social change and putting our learning into writing. We will be writing another essay and putting together a slideshow to demonstrate our learning. 
• We will begin our 4th module on Natural Disasters in May! 

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?
• Our second chapter's guiding question is:  Why does more rain form over West Ferris than East Ferris?

SELS/Health lessons

• Social Justice Acrostic Poems

• The video for April is now 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.