What's Up in 5th Grade? #38

 

 

 Calendar

Tuesday, June 4th--Randall Talent Show 8:30 @ West

                                                    (Families of performers are now able to come!)

Wednesday, June 5th--5th Grade Moving On Celebration/Music

                                 Concert 1:00 pm

Thursday, June 6th   --5th Grade field trip to Vilas Park 11:15-1:45

                                    --Last day of school!!!

New News

• Lake Kegonsa was a blast!  Thank you so much to all the chaperones that helped us pull that off!
• Please make sure to send extra bags/empty backpacks next week so that we can start cleaning out those desks and lockers before Thursday!!

Oldie, but Goodies

• Last 10 days for 5th Grade
1. Hat Day --6/3
2. "Sit Anywhere You Like Day"--6/4
3. Read-In Day (with an actual book)--6/5
4. Eat Lunch Outside with 5th Grade Day-6/6 (Vilas Park)

Math

• May Number Corner will be focused on coordinate grids and conversion work between cups and ounces. In addition, we will have a variety of problem strings and activities that will review our 5th grade skills.
• This week, we revisited some of our earlier work in the year and did the math volume zoo project.  
• Next Monday will be our last day of math! 

Literacy this week 

• Ask your 5th grader which book they chose to read first for literacy!!
• We will be doing a combination of various literacy activities.  Each classroom may be a bit different, but in general we plan to do parts of EL Module 4-Natural Disasters, chapter book reading/responses/activities, some additional read alouds, daily oral language and cursive. 

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?
• Our third chapter's guiding question is:  Why is more water vapor getting cold over West Ferris than East Ferris?
• Our fourth chapter's guiding question is:  Why is more water vapor high up over West Ferris than East Ferris?
• Our fifth chapter's guiding question is:  How can East Ferris turn wastewater into clean freshwater?

SELS/Health lessons

• The video for May is now available via your child's Google Classroom. 
• Our focus this month will be on Practicing the "Randall Way" and our goal is 1,250 paws to earn a Popsicle Day  in June!  

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.