What's Up in 5th Grade?

                What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Friday, October 14th-No school for students (staff pd)
• Tuesday, October 25th--Student Success Night 5:30-7:00pm        (time in the classrooms will only be from 5:30-6:30)
• 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

Willing to help out for Student Success Night??

We ask that you add the finishing touch to our Student Success Night (Tuesday, October 25) by donating a dessert to accompany our family pizza party - maybe a dozen of your family’s favorite treat, easy to serve. Desserts may be brought to the office throughout the day on October 25 or to the cafeteria when you arrive that evening. Be sure to put your name on any plate/pan you wish to have returned. 

Please email your classroom teacher to let us know if you are willing to help. Thank you!

From the Advanced Learning Department

Hello Families:

Please peruse this Newsletter from the Advanced Learning Specialist at Randall to learn more about what is happening with Advanced Learning. 

New News......

• Download your Book It With Bucky Fall Packet here.
• Remember...No school for students tomorrow-- Friday, October 14th for staff to have a professional development day.
• Vision Screen was this week for 3rd and 5th graders
• For the next 3 weeks, 5th grade students will be attending lessons in the cafeteria with Ms. Larsen-Klodd (our school social worker) on protective behaviors. 
  
  
  
  
  

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!

5th Grade Math this week....

• October Number Corner--  Our carrots are looks pretty scary.  Ask your kiddos what they are learning and any patterns they see with weighing their daily 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 really dug into how to find and use common denominators effectively when adding and subtracting fractions.  

Literacy this week....

• This week we continued with the second unit of study with our text Esperanza Rising. We are still focusing on some paragraph writing and comparing characters within a text. We also took a mid-unit assessment this week.  Ask your 5th grader what they were asked to do. 
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights. 

Science this week....

• Our finished up our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our next unit will be called:  Modeling Matter.
• We engaged in a virtual field trip with the University of WI- Madison Science Festival titled "From Bacteria to Biofuels" on Thursday afternoon.
• Some students were even able to visit a squash farm on Wednesday (virtually).

SELS this week...

• Recognizing, celebrating our culture trees.
• 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.