What's Up in 5th Grade?

                          What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Tuesday, January 10th--Randall Spelling Bee 9:00 am
• Thursday, January 12th--Wright Middle School visits 5th grade
• Friday, January 13th-Multico performance @ 9 am
• 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......

• Welcome Back!!  We hope that you all had a relaxing Winter Break!  
• Badger Rock Middle School visited this week.  Ask your kiddo about what they learned.
• Next week will have a visit from Wright Middle School.
• Next Friday we will be able to watch a performance from West High School called Multico!!

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
•  Wright Showcase 

5th Grade Math this week....

• January Number Corner--This month we will be focusing on multiplication and addition of fractions as it relates to time and money.  We will also be working with numerical patterns and graphing.
• This week and next week for Unit 4 we focusing our multiplication work on the partial products array strategy and moving towards the algorithm.  This is such an exciting time to watch students make that connection from strategy to algorithm.  You've got this, 5th graders!!

Literacy this week....

•  Our theme for Module 2--Rainforests. 
• This week we eased our way back into school with some figurative language review, read alouds and review of learning before Winter Break.
• Next week we will begin Module 2/Unit 2 where we will read some new texts based on the rainforest and focus on point of view, vocabulary and figurative language. 

Science this week....

• We are taking a break from science for a few weeks.

Social Studies this week....

• We are doing a mini-unit on Native American Histories and Stories
• The text we are using is called Mountain Wolf Woman by Diana Holliday
• We focused the first few days on what we know about the Ho-Chunks and interacting with different texts and vocabulary

SELS this week...

• Race and Racism
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for January is Pajama Day (whole school!!)
•  We are focusing on being kind
• January's Goal for the whole school: 1700  Paws
Here's the Randall Way video for January - 
https://youtu.be/v4FSJbpRjjo

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.