What's Up in 5th Grade?

                                           What's Up in 5th Grade?

New News......

• Please send in a pair of ear buds or head phones for your 5th grader for them to use at school.
• Please remember to have your child fully charge their chromebook EVERY DAY and return it to school.  Thank You!!
• If your 5th grader is interested in safety patrol, the forms are due Monday!!

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Strings will start next week!
• Picture Day - Coming on October 12, 2022
• Would you like to volunteer on field trips or in the classroom?  If so, MMSD is now requiring everyone to have a Level 2 certification.  What does this mean?  Please check out the link.  Fair warning....it is time consuming. If you were a level 2 last year,  you will receive a email to "renew" before it expires. (This is quite easy to do is what we hear. )  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.

5th Grade Math this week....

• For Number Corner this month, we are focussing on showing the relationship between decimals and fractions using money and time.  We are also starting to notice how equivalent fractions and decimals are made.  In addition, the concept of volume is introduced while we work with three dimensions of measurement on paper and with our cubes.

• Our first unit of study is on Multiplication and Volume.  This week we worked with numerical expressions and even took our first checkpoint on this.  We also worked with area, volume and surface area.

Literacy this week....

• We started Week One of our new literacy curriculum.  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights.  This week we spent quite a bit of time developing norms and protocols for group discussions and work.  We were also able to jump into our Module 1 text Esperanza Rising. Slow and steady wins the race with our close reading and reflective responses.  
• Great video that we watched today to get us geared up for this first Module https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/
  
  
  

Science this week....

• Our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our first chapter question is :  Why don't we see a lot of stars in the daytime?
• Our next chapter question will be: Why is the sun up sometimes , but not at other times?

SELS this week...

• Recognizing and celebrating our different identities