Reading Incentive Programs from Ms. Sharrock

 Feeding the need to Read

From the month of October through March our Raccoons are helping to support local restaurants, and earning free meals, through reaching their reading goals.  Every month that a scholar reaches their reading goal they will receive a coupon for a free meal that can be redeemed at the following local participating restaurants (Craftsman Table & Tap, Everly, Hubbard Avenue Diner, Luigí’s Pizza, Monty’s Blue Plate Diner or Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace) Scholars will also receive a coupon for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut each month that they reach their goal.  Thank you for supporting our raccoons!

Multiplication Strategies

 This is the paper that went home today, Friday, September 23, that shows the many different strategies we use to solve multiplication problems. Please ask your child to see their paper, and go over the different strategies with them. You could even grab some paper and try a few more problems, how about these: 

50x66, 99x34, 76x32, 18x25

Safety Patrol

 

September 23

   What's Up in 5th Grade?

New News......

• Student Success Night will be on Tuesday, October 25th.  Times TBD

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Please send in a pair of ear buds or head phones for your 5th grader for them to use at school.
• Please remember to have your child fully charge their chromebook EVERY DAY and return it to school.  Thank You!!
• Picture Day - Coming on October 12, 2022
• Would you like to volunteer on field trips or in the classroom?  If so, MMSD is now requiring everyone to have a Level 2 certification.  What does this mean?  Please check out the link.  Fair warning....it is time consuming. If you were a level 2 last year,  you will receive a email to "renew" before it expires. (This is quite easy to do is what we hear. )  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.

5th Grade Math this week....

• For Number Corner this month, we are focussing on showing the relationship between decimals and fractions using money and time.  We are also starting to notice how equivalent fractions and decimals are made.  In addition, the concept of volume is introduced while we work with three dimensions of measurement on paper and with our cubes.
• Our first unit of study is on Multiplication and Volume.  This week we continued to work on our multiplication strategies with the box method and ratio tables to work to help us find area, volume and surface area.  
• Next week we will finish up Unit 1 with an assessment on Friday. 

Literacy this week....

• Week Two of our new literacy curriculum allowed us to read more of our Module 1 text Esperanza Rising and have some great discussions around human rights and how these rights were being violated throughout our reading.
• We also worked on some vocabulary words and how to quote accurately from a text.
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights.  
• While reading Esperanza Rising we are reading and discussing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Abridged for Youth. Here is a copy of what they are reading and studying, for you to discuss at home with your student. 
  

Science this week....

• Our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our first chapter question is :  Why is the sun up sometimes , but not at other times?
• Our next chapter question will be: Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?

SELS this week...

• Recognizing and celebrating our different identities through some "I Am Me" Poetry work and discussions.

Week of September 6

 

New News....

• Chromebooks came home this week.  Please make sure your 5th graders fully charges this every night and brings it to school every day.
• Strings will start the week of September 19th....more info to come!!
• Would you like to volunteer on field trips or in the classroom?  If so, MMSD is now requiring everyone to have a Level 2 certification.  What does this mean?  Please check out the link.  Fair warning....it is time consuming. If you were a level 2 last year,  you will receive a email to "renew" before it expires. (This is quite easy to do is what we hear. )  

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.

5th Grade Math this week....

• For Number Corner this month, we are focussing on showing the relationship between decimals and fractions using money and time.  We are also starting to notice how equivalent fractions and decimals are made.  In addition, the concept of volume is introduced while we work with three dimensions of measurement on paper and with our cubes.

• Our first unit of study is on Multiplication and Volume.  So far we have talked about what math we will cover this year, what a math student looks like, and how students view themselves as math students.  Then, we worked with some basic multiplication through the use of a couple games  and ended the week with some more work around volume using story problems. 

Literacy this week....

• While we are all getting to know each other a bit more, this week was busy with some shorter literacy activities that allowed us to learn about one another.
• We read some various books about families and how we can contribute to our classroom and Randall community.
• Students had the opportunity to do a couple writing projects to ease back into the school setting. 

Science this week....

• Our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our first chapter question is :  Why don't we see a lot of stars in the daytime?
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SELS this week...

• Recognizing and celebrating our different identities