What's Up in 5th Grade?

                    What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Wednesday, November 16th--Picture Retake Day                  Students who would like a retake must bring their original portrait packet to the camera and return it to the photographer unless they were absent that 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......

• From the Advanced Learning Department  Click here to learn about what is happening with Advanced Learning at Randall! 

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Picture re-takes are next Wednesday!!  Students who would like a retake must bring their original portrait packet to the camera and return it to the photographer unless they were absent that day :)

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. 
• This week we started Unit 3 with some adding and subtracting decimals using money and multiplying/dividing by 10.  Then we talked about place values of whole numbers and decimals and making connections between the values.  Finally, we worked with making models of, reading, writing and comparing decimals.  
• Next week we will continue with the work as well as look at how to round decimals to different place values. 

Literacy this week....

• This week we worked on analyzing a model monologue and then using this to help us begin putting together our group monologues using scenes from the book Esperanza Rising. 
• We did some peer critique with one another to help revise our monologues.
• We also did some work with perfect verb tenses.
•  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.