Weekly Update October 28

 What's Up in 5th Grade?

 Parent/Teacher Conferences!!!

November 3rd and 4th

Godfrey Conference Link

Dear Families: 

If you would like to check in with the Advanced Learning Specialist, Amy Rountree, during parent teacher conferences, here is a link to her signup genius so that you can make an appointment. If none of these work, feel free to email her at aerountree@madison.k12.wi.us and set up a different time, or use this link to schedule an appointment not during conferences. 

Calendar

• Monday, October 31st--10:35 am early release for students                  and beginning of 2nd quarter
• Thursday, November 3rd--Evening Parent/Teacher conferences
• Friday, November 4th--No school for students-Parent/Teacher              conferences
• Wednesday, November 16th--Picture Retake Day
• Wednesday, November 23rd -Friday, November 25th--                        No school for Fall Break
• Monday, December 5th--No school for students--(staff pd)
• Wednesday, December 21st-Tuesday, January 3rd--                              No school for Winter Break
• School resumes Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
• Monday, January 16th-No school for                                                      Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Friday, January 20th--No school for semester grade reporting
• Monday, January 23rd--beginning of  3rd quarter

New News......

• It was great to see so many of you last Tuesday night at our Academic Success Night!!

• Please peruse this Newsletter from the Advanced Learning Specialist at Randall to learn more about what is happening with Advanced Learning. 

• • Download your Book It With Bucky Fall Packet here.

5th Grade Math this week....

• October Number Corner-- Our carrots are looking pretty scary! Only one more weekend to see how they hold up.  For November Number Corner starting next week, we will be looking at how to classify triangles based on lengths of sides and angles.  in addition we will be looking at triangles on a coordinate grid to learn about ordered pairs.  Finally, we will also be using the metric system and comparing how meters relate to centimeters, decimeters, decameters and kilometers. 
• Unit 2 in our Bridges Curriculum is almost completed.  Classes took a unit test today or will complete/finish it on Monday.  Then we will end up our unit by taking a few days to look at GCF and LCM work before we jump into Unit 3 where we will be looking at whole numbers and decimal place values.

Literacy this week....

• This week we created some two-voice poetry and worked on writing a literary essay. 
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights. 

Science this week....

• We "Zoomed" with an astronaut on Thursday to end our unit on Patterns of Earth and Sky
• Our new unit is:  Modeling Matter
• Our guiding question for this unit is: What happens when two substances are mixed together?
• For our first chapter we are examining: Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?

SELS this week...

• Empathy (Lesson 2)
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for October..
• October's Goal for the whole school: 2,000 PAWS!!!
• October's Incentive: Extra Recess!!!
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/6PRYtw7-wP

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.

US State Practice Links

 https://www.abcya.com/games/usa-geography-puzzle

https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/map-quiz-us-states

https://www.ducksters.com/games/united_states_map_game.php

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/us-puzzle.html

https://www.geoguessr.com/seterra/en/vgp/3003

https://www.sporcle.com/games/Matt/find_the_states

https://www.bls.gov/k12/games/geography-quiz/

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

https://freestudymaps.com/quizzes/50-us-states-map-quiz?ref=footer

https://www.playgeography.com/games/us-states/

Hard One: https://bensguide.gpo.gov/states5/game.html

Update October 21

 What's Up in 5th Grade?

Sign up for Conferences!!!

November 3rd and 4th

Godfrey Conference Sign Up

Calendar

• Tuesday, October 25th--Student Success Night 5:30-7:00pm        (time in the classrooms will only be from 5:30-6:30)
• Monday, October 31st--Early release for students (staff pd) and           beginning of 2nd quarter
• Thursday, November 3rd--Evening Parent/Teacher conferences
• Friday, November 4th--No school for students-Parent/Teacher              conferences
• Wednesday, November 23rd -Friday, November 25th--                        No school for Fall Break
• Monday, December 5th--No school for students--(staff pd)
• Wednesday, December 21st-Tuesday, January 3rd--                              No school for Winter Break
• School resumes Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
• Monday, January 16th-No school for                                                      Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Friday, January 20th--No school for semester grade reporting
• Monday, January 23rd--beginning of  3rd quarter

New News......

• Please sign up for a conference time (links above).
  
  
  
  
  

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Student Success Night will be on Tuesday, October 25th--5:30-7:00 (classrooms will be open from 5:30-6:30 to visit.)

• We ask that you add the finishing touch to our Student Success Night (Tuesday, October 25) by donating a dessert to accompany our family pizza party - maybe a dozen of your family’s favorite treat, easy to serve. Desserts may be brought to the office throughout the day on October 25 or to the cafeteria when you arrive that evening. Be sure to put your name on any plate/pan you wish to have returned. 

  Please email your classroom teacher to let us know if you are willing to help. Thank you!

• 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!

• Please peruse this Newsletter from the Advanced Learning Specialist at Randall to learn more about what is happening with Advanced Learning. 

• • Download your Book It With Bucky Fall Packet here.

• For the next 2 weeks, 5th grade students will be attending lessons in the cafeteria with Ms. Larsen-Klodd (our school social worker) on protective behaviors. 

5th Grade Math this week....

• October Number Corner-- Our carrots are looking pretty scary!  We can't wait to show you these next week at Academic Success Night!!  Ask your kiddos what they are learning and any patterns they see with weighing their daily mass.  The data we gather will be used to create a graphing activity as a class. We will also be using our visualization skills to observe a building (made of blocks) from 3 different perspectives (top, bottom and front) to pick a final composite.  
• Unit 2 in our Bridges Curriculum will focus on some fraction work.  This week we took a checkpoint to see how we are doing so far.  We will finish up this work next week and take a Unit 2 assessment.  Then, we will take a few days to look at GCF and LCM work before we jump into Unit 3 where we will be looking at whole numbers and decimal place values.

Literacy this week....

• This week we continued with the second unit of study with our text Esperanza Rising. We finished reading the book and took a mid-unit assessment this week.  Ask your 5th grader what they were asked to do. 
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights. 

Science this week....

• We finished up our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our next unit will be called:  Modeling Matter. We will begin this after our Student Success Night so you can see the work we have completed with Patterns of Earth and Sky.

SELS this week...

• Empathy
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for October..
• October's Goal for the whole school: 2,000 PAWS!!!
• October's Incentive: Extra Recess!!!
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/6PRYtw7-wP

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.

Weekly Update October 12

 

Calendar

• Friday, October 14th-No school for students (staff pd)
• Tuesday, October 25th--Student Success Night 5:30-7:00pm        (time in the classrooms will only be from 5:30-6:30)
• Monday, October 31st--Early release for students (staff pd) and           beginning of 2nd quarter
• Thursday, November 3rd--Evening Parent/Teacher conferences
• Friday, November 4th--No school for students-Parent/Teacher              conferences
• Wednesday, November 23rd -Friday, November 25th--                        No school for Fall Break
• Monday, December 5th--No school for students--(staff pd)

Willing to help out for Student Success Night??

We ask that you add the finishing touch to our Student Success Night (Tuesday, October 25) by donating a dessert to accompany our family pizza party - maybe a dozen of your family’s favorite treat, easy to serve. Desserts may be brought to the office throughout the day on October 25 or to the cafeteria when you arrive that evening. Be sure to put your name on any plate/pan you wish to have returned. 

Please email your classroom teacher to let us know if you are willing to help. Thank you!

New News......

• Download your Book It With Bucky Fall Packet here.
• Remember...No school for students tomorrow-- Friday, October 14th for staff to have a professional development day.
• Vision Screen was this week for 3rd and 5th graders
• For the next 3 weeks, 5th grade students will be attending lessons in the cafeteria with Ms. Larsen-Klodd (our school social worker) on protective behaviors. 
  
  
  
  
  

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

• Student Success Night will be on Tuesday, October 25th--5:30-7:00 (classrooms will be open from 5:30-6:30 to visit.)

• 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!

5th Grade Math this week....

• October Number Corner--  Our carrots are looks pretty scary.  Ask your kiddos what they are learning and any patterns they see with weighing their daily mass.  The data we gather will be used to create a graphing activity as a class. We will also be using our visualization skills to observe a building (made of blocks) from 3 different perspectives (top, bottom and front) to pick a final composite.  
• Unit 2 in our Bridges Curriculum will focused on some fraction work.  This week we really dug into how to find and use common denominators effectively when adding and subtracting fractions.  

Literacy this week....

• This week we continued with the second unit of study with our text Esperanza Rising. We are still focusing on some paragraph writing and comparing characters within a text. Ask how Esperanza is changing as the story moves along. What happened between her and Marta?
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights. 

Science this week....

• Our finished up our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our next unit will be called:  Modeling Matter.
• We engaged in a virtual field trip with the University of WI- Madison Science Festival titled "From Bacteria to Biofuels" on Thursday afternoon.
• Some students were even able to visit a squash farm on Wednesday (virtually).

SELS this week...

• Recognizing, celebrating our culture trees.
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for October..
• October's Goal for the whole school: 2,000 PAWS!!!
• October's Incentive: Extra Recess!!!
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/6PRYtw7-wP

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.

Bus Routes

 MMSD's Transportation Department has notified Randall of a change in the morning pick up times for both the Red and Yellow Dot School bus routes. Please refer to the screenshots below for updated pick up times. This change will go into effect on Tuesday morning - October 11. The change is due to the buses getting caught in traffic causing them to run late to the next school.

Please see the information below and let the Randall School Office know if you have any questions.

Thank you!

What's New in Advanced Learning

 

Weekly Update Oct 7

   What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• October 12th -- Picture Day
• Friday, October 14th-No school for students (staff pd)
• Tuesday, October 25th--Student Success Night 5:30-7:00pm
• Monday, October 31st--Early release for students (staff pd) and           beginning of 2nd quarter
• Thursday, November 3rd--Evening Parent/Teacher conferences
• Friday, November 4th--No school for students-Parent/Teacher              conferences
• Wednesday, November 23rd -Friday, November 25th--                        No school for Fall Break
• Monday, December 5th--No school for students--(staff pd)
• Wednesday, December 21st-Tuesday, January 3rd--                              No school for Winter Break
• School resumes Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
• Monday, January 16th-No school for                                                      Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Friday, January 20th--No school for semester grade reporting
• Monday, January 23rd--beginning of  3rd quarter

New News......

• Randall's GSA started this week with Ms. Katie and Ms. Jen!
• Remember...No school for students next Friday, October 14th for staff to have a professional development day.
  
  

5th Grade Math this week....

• October Number Corner has begun!!  Ask your kiddos about the predicted fate of our classroom carrots and what we have learned about measuring their mass.  The data we gather will be used to create a graphing activity as a class. We will also be using our visualization skills to observe a building (made of blocks) from 3 different perspectives (top, bottom and front) to pick a final composite.  
• Unit 2 in our Bridges Curriculum will focused on some fraction work.  This week we used money and clock models to help us begin our work.  Luckily, we already had some previous experience with this in our September Number Corner.  
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Literacy this week....

• This week we actually took a an End of Unit assessment.  Then we started the second unit of study with our text Esperanza Rising. We will be focusing on some paragraph writing and comparing characters within a text. 
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights. 

Science this week....

• Our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our first chapter question is :  Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?
• Our next chapter question will be: How can we investigate why see different stars on different nights?

SELS this week...

• Recognizing, celebrating and understanding gender identity.
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for October..
• October's Goal for the whole school: 2,000 PAWS!!!
• October's Incentive: Extra Recess!!!
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/6PRYtw7-wP

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.

Weekly Update

 Calendar

• October 12th -- Picture Day
• Friday, October 14th-No school for students (staff pd)
• Tuesday, October 25th--Student Success Night 5:30-7:00pm
• Monday, October 31st--Early release for students (staff pd) and           beginning of 2nd quarter
• Thursday, November 3rd--Evening Parent/Teacher conferences
• Friday, November 4th--No school for students-Parent/Teacher              conferences
• Wednesday, November 23rd -Friday, November 25th--                        No school for Fall Break
• Monday, December 5th--No school for students--(staff pd)
• Wednesday, December 21st-Tuesday, January 3rd--                              No school for Winter Break
• School resumes Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
• Monday, January 16th-No school for                                                      Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Friday, January 20th--No school for semester grade reporting
• Monday, January 23rd--beginning of  3rd quarter

New News......

• Student Success Night will be on Tuesday, October 25th--5:30-7:00 (classrooms will be open from 5:30-6:30 to visit.)
• Some classrooms are raising monarch butterflies! Ask your child about this.
• Some classrooms were able to take a virtual field trip to the Door County Apple Orchard and  Albano Farm (Dairy) this week.
• We reviewed the Standard Response Protocol with our classes this week. 

• 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!

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
• Student Success Night will be on Tuesday, October 25th--5:30-7:00 (classrooms will be open from 5:30-6:30 to visit.)
• 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 finished up on how to show the relationship between decimals and fractions using money and time.  We are also noticed how equivalent fractions and decimals are made. 
• October Number Corner will be focused around finding the volume of 3d objects using various perspectives.  We will also work with finding the changing mass of carrots over time and translate our data into a graphing activity. 
• Our first unit of study is on Multiplication and Volume ended.  This week we finished up our lessons and took an assessment. 
• Next week we will start Unit 2 that will focus on adding and subtracting fractions.

Literacy this week....

• This week we actually took a mid-module assessment to see where we are at as a group.  We also continued to read more of our text Esperanza Rising. Students are being asked to break apart vocabulary words and look at affixes and suffix meaning.  They are quoting accurately and writing summary paragraphs. 
•  Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights.  
• This week we looked more closely at which of the Humans Rights were being threatened in each chapter we have read so far. 
• We also took a mid-unit assessment which included word work, quoting accurately from the text and summarizing. 

Science this week....

• Our first unit in science is called Patterns of Earth and Sky.
• Our first chapter question is :  Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?
• Our next chapter question will be: How can we investigate why see different stars on different nights?

SELS this week...

• Recognizing, celebrating and understanding skin color.