What's Up in 5th Grade??

                        What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Friday, November 18th--Movie Night  here is the flier
• 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......

• No School next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

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

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 worked on drawing and comparing decimals.  Next, we moved on to learning how to round decimals to specific place values.  We also made some comparisons with decimal and fraction equivalencies.  Finally, we started to use our understanding of decimal comparisons to plot out decimals on a number line. 
• After the long weekend, we will continue with decimal equivalencies and begin  look at metric conversions.  

Literacy this week....

• This week we worked on analyzing a model of a directors' note. 
•  Groups then worked together to take notes, plan and write a draft of a directors' note for their monologue scenario.  
• Finally, students were asked to independently write a directors' note on their own. a monologue and then using this to help us begin putting together our group 
• We did some peer critique with one another to help revise our writing.
• Students practiced their fluency while reading their monologues aloud.
• Next week we will present our monologues to the class!
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights. 
• After the long weekend, we will begin Module 2--Rainforests.

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?
• After the long weekend, we will begin Chapter 2--Why do some salad dressings have sediments and other do not?

SELS this week...

• Empathy and Perspective
• Bullying and Cyberbullying (for the short week)
• 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.