What's Up in 5th Grade

                           What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Monday, Jan. 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......

• Wright Middle School visited this week.  Ask your kiddo about what they learned.

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 we really focused on making that shift from strategies to the algorithm.  They are doing great!  Ask your kiddo to show you some problems.  
• For example: 36 x 42   box/array method    ratio table    algorithm
• Next week, we will have a quiz and also do some more work with estimation and writing story problems.

Literacy this week....

•  Our theme for Module 2--Rainforests. 
• This week we jumped back into our literacy curriculum.  We talked about recognizing and explaining meaning with our figurative language, an author's point of view, and then wrote some comparison paragraphs for both.  
• Next week we will focus on recognizing and using concrete language in our texts and writing and practicing our fluency.

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
• This week we continued reading the text, looking at vocabulary words, and did some comparison venn diagrams based on activities done traditionally by the Ho-Chunk community and our own families. 

SELS this week...

• 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.