What's Up in 5th Grade?

                        What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Wednesday, December 21st-Tuesday, January 3rd--                              No school for Winter Break
• School resumes Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
• Thursday, January 5th--Badger Rock visits 5th grade
• Thursday, January 12th--Wright Middle School visits 5th grade
• Monday, January 16th-No school for                                                      Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Thursday, January 19th--Wright Middle School Showcase                                                                5:30-6:30 pm
• Friday, January 20th--No school for semester grade reporting
• Monday, January 23rd--beginning of  3rd quarter
• Friday, January 27th--Wright application due date at 4:00 pm

New News......

• Next week we will not have a blog entry.
• On Tuesday, December 20th, Randall students will get to watch a movie with their grade level peers for their November reward!  So cool!
•  Wright Showcase 

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Badger Rock Middle School --The lottery is technically open as of December 1st (link) for application 
• To learn more about the work of the Advanced Learning Advisory Committee, you can visit this site. 
• The Wright lottery is open and and closes on  January 27, 2023 @ 4:00pm

5th Grade Math this week....

• December Number Corner--This month we will be creating and discussing scatter plots using personal height and feet measurement data.  We will also be looking at a classification of quadrilaterals and their unique characteristics based on pairs of parallel sides, congruent sides and congruent angles. 
• Ask your kiddo why a why a square is always a kite and a rhombus, but a kite is not always a square and a rhombus is not always a kite??  And, is a rhombus a square every single time?? 
• This week we revisited an old workplace game, The Product Game, but revised it by using larger numbers to help us practice our multiplication strategies.
• We also continued to make connections between whole numbers, decimals and fractions as we used our multiplication and division strategies with story problems.
• Along with our strategies, we are also working with the multiplication algorithm.

Literacy this week....

•  Our theme for Module 2--Rainforests. 
• This week we completed our mid-unit assessment for Module 2/Unit 1.  
• We continued to compare and contrast texts about rainforests and gather information and new learning.
• We learned about and practiced "science talks" where we discuss our learning in a small group while others listen to our discussion.
• We prepared for our end of unit assessment for Module 2/Unit 1 where we will gather and organize information from various texts and participate in a science talk in front of peers next week.
• We did some vocabulary work and added to our word walls.

Science this week....

• Our new unit is:  Modeling Matter
• Our guiding question for this unit is: What happens when two substances are mixed together?
• We continued with our third and final chapter: Why can salad dressing ingredients separate again after being mixed?
• We plan to finish up this unit by Winter Break. 
• After Winter Break, we will do a mini-unit on Native Americans and then another mini-unit on working  with maps of the United States before we begin our next science unit: Earth Systems.

SELS this week...

• Big Problems and Handling a Problem in Group Favoritism
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for December and we are focusing on Bathroom Behavior
• December's Goal for the whole school:  1,000 Paws
• December's Incentive: Hot Chocolate
Here's the Randall Way video for December - https://youtu.be/y6YzGUr9fbM

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.