What's Up in 5th Grade?

                           What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Friday, October 7th--West Homecoming Parade and popcorn party for September behavior incentive reward
• October 12th -- Picture Day
• Friday, October 14th-No school for students (staff pd)
• Tuesday, October 25th--Student Success Night 5:30-7:00pm
• Monday, October 31st--Early release for students (staff pd) and           beginning of 2nd quarter
• Thursday, November 3rd--Evening Parent/Teacher conferences
• Friday, November 4th--No school for students-Parent/Teacher              conferences
• Wednesday, November 23rd -Friday, November 25th--                        No school for Fall Break
• Monday, December 5th--No school for students--(staff pd)
• Wednesday, December 21st-Tuesday, January 3rd--                              No school for Winter Break
• School resumes Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
• Monday, January 16th-No school for                                                      Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Friday, January 20th--No school for semester grade reporting
• Monday, January 23rd--beginning of  3rd quarter

New News......

• Randall's GSA started this week with Ms. Katie and Ms. Jen!
• Monarch butterfly update:  Released to start migrating on Monday!!  Good luck,litte friends!
• Remember...No school for students next Friday, October 14th for staff to have a professional development day.
  
  
  
  

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Student Success Night will be on Tuesday, October 25th--5:30-7:00 (classrooms will be open from 5:30-6:30 to visit.)

• Feeding the need to Read

  From the month of October through March our Raccoons are helping to support local restaurants, and earning free meals, through reaching their reading goals.  Every month that a scholar reaches their reading goal they will receive a coupon for a free meal that can be redeemed at the following local participating restaurants (Craftsman Table & Tap, Everly, Hubbard Avenue Diner, Luigí’s Pizza, Monty’s Blue Plate Diner or Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace) Scholars will also receive a coupon for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut each month that they reach their goal.  Thank you for supporting our raccoons!

• Picture Day - Coming on October 12, 2022

5th Grade Math this week....

• October Number Corner has begun!!  Ask your kiddos about the predicted fate of our classroom carrots and what we have learned about measuring their mass.  The data we gather will be used to create a graphing activity as a class. We will also be using our visualization skills to observe a building (made of blocks) from 3 different perspectives (top, bottom and front) to pick a final composite.  
• Unit 2 in our Bridges Curriculum will focused on some fraction work.  This week we used money and clock models to help us begin our work.  Luckily, we already had some previous experience with this in our September Number Corner.

Literacy this week....

• This week we actually took a an End of Unit assessment.  Then we started the second unit of study with our text Esperanza Rising. We will be focusing on some paragraph writing and comparing characters within a text. 
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights. 

Science this week....

• Our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our first chapter question is :  Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?
• Our next chapter question will be: How can we investigate why see different stars on different nights?

SELS this week...

• Recognizing, celebrating and understanding gender identity.
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for October..
• October's Goal for the whole school: 2,000 PAWS!!!
• October's Incentive: Extra Recess!!!
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/6PRYtw7-wP

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.