What's Up in 5th Grade?

                        What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Wednesday, November 16th--Picture Retake Day
• 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......

• Don't forget!!  Turn those clocks back one hour Saturday night/Sunday morning for Daylight Savings!!!
• Thank you all for attending conferences and allowing us to share this year with you and your 5th grader!

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Remember, no school on Friday, November 4th for Parent/Teacher Conferences.

5th Grade Math this week....

• November Number Corner-- This month we will be looking at how to classify triangles based on lengths of sides and angles.  In addition we will be locating the position of these triangles on a coordinate grid to learn about ordered pairs.  Finally, we will also be using the metric system and comparing how meters relate to centimeters, decimeters, decameters and kilometers. 
• Unit 2 in our Bridges Curriculum was completed this week.  wrapped up this week by taking a few days to look at GCF and LCM. 
• Next week we will begin Unit 3 where we will be working with whole numbers and decimal place values.

Literacy this week....

• This week we continued to work on composing a literary essay based on Esperanza Rising as we finish up Unit 2 in our Module 1.
• Unit 3 will focus on our final presentation for Module 1 that will involve monologues and group work.
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights. 

Science this week....

• Our new unit is:  Modeling Matter
• Our guiding question for this unit is: What happens when two substances are mixed together?
• For our first chapter we are examining: Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?

SELS this week...

• Empathy and Perspective
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for November
• November's Goal for the whole school:  1,500 Paws
• November's Incentive: Movie Day
Here's the video:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACWDK5pDd7Y

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.