What's Up in 5th Grade?

                       What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• Monday, February 27th--Hamilton Forms due to teacher
• Tuesday, February 28th--Pajama Day
• Saturday, March 4th--Glow Ball 5:30-7:30
• Friday, March 17th--Trinity Irish Dancers @ 1:00 pm
• Saturday, March 18th--Strings Festival at West
• Wednesday, March 22nd-5th Grade Battle of the Books-10-11am
• Friday, March 24th--Opera for the Young @9:30
• March 27th-31st--Spring Break
• Monday, April 3rd--4th Quarter begins
• Friday, April 7th--Early release for students (conference prep)
• Monday, April 10th--No school for students (PD) day
• Thursday, April 13th--Early release for students for conferences
• Monday, May 29th--No School for Memorial Day 
• Thursday, June 1st--5th Grade Field Trip to Lake Kegonsa
• Wednesday, June 7th--5th Grade Moving On Ceremony (1 pm ?)
• Thursday, June 8th--5th Grade Field Trip to Vilas Park 
• 11:15-1:45 pm (sack lunches)
• Thursday, June 8th--Last Day of 5th Grade 

                                    

New News......

• No clue on how we will make up Wednesday and Thursday snow days....stay tuned :)
• Due to  our 2nd snow day a couple weeks ago,  the Friday, May 26th--No school for students  has been canceled so that we meet our instructional minutes for the year.
• UW athletes read to our classes this week during literacy on Tuesday!  How cool!
• Randall Book Share will be next week

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Check out the blog post about the Glow Ball on March 4th and Girls on the Run!!

5th Grade Math this week....

• February Number Corner--This month we will be revisiting the old friend known as area.  We will look at the dimensions of various objects and multiply to find the area of each object in square units.   In addition, we will be measuring liquids and converting liters and deciliters to  milliliters and back again.  
• Next week we will review and take the end of unit assessment.
• Wednesday, we will take a couple days to do our Bridges Interim Assessment #2.
• Then, we will start Unit 6 in the Bridges Math Curriculum.  This unit is a mixture of content that we have touched on already this year (usually in Number Corner) and now we are ready to take our understanding to the level.  We will be looking at: coordinate grids, ordered pairs, classifying polygons, volume and area.
• March Number Corner--This month we will continue to look at area, but by multiplying with decimals instead of fractions.  We will also do some data collection and line plots. Finally we will learn a form of bingo involving division with decimals. 

Literacy this week....

• Our theme for Module 2--Rainforests. 
• This week we finished our e-books and did some sharing!!
•  Next week we will begin Module 3--Athletes Leaders of Social Change

Science this week....

• Our third science unit-Earth Systems.
• Unit Question:  What can determine how much water is available for human use?
• Chapter Three: Why is more water vapor getting cold over West Ferris than East Ferris

Social Studies this week....

•  Black History Month---Classrooms may differ on what they are doing, so be sure to ask your kiddo what they did. 

SELS this week...

• Ability (Part 2)
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for February is "Bring a Stuffie / Read In Day"
•  We are focusing on being kind and respectful greetings
• February's Goal for the whole school: 1000  Paws
Here's the Randall Way video for February - 
The Randall Way--February

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.