What's Up in 5th Grade?
Calendar
- 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
- Friday, March 24th--February Reward "Read In/Stuffy" Day
- March 27th-31st--Spring Break
- Monday, April 3rd--4th Quarter begins and every Monday until the end of the year there will be 60 minutes of asynchronous learning planned for the early release time.
- Friday, April 7th--Early release for students (conference prep)
- Monday, April 10th--Asynchronous Learning Day for students (Teacher PD)
- Thursday, April 13th--Early release for students for conferences
- Tuesday, April 18th--Film Festival for Godfrey 9:30-11:15
- Thursday, April 20th-Film Festival for Faber/Kampa 9:30-11:15
- Monday, May 22nd--Kampa/Godfrey Strings Concert 11-11:30
- Wednesday, May 24th-Faber Strings Concert 10:30-11:00
- 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......
- Mark your calendar for Conferences on Thursday, April 13th!
Forward Testing Schedule
Math
- Tuesday, April 11th --8:00 am
- Thursday April 13th--8:00 am
Literacy
- Tuesday, April 11th-- mid-morning for Godfrey
--afternoon for Faber/Kampa
- Wednesday, April 12th-- afternoon
- Friday, April 14th-- afternoon
Oldie, but goodies .....
- Please return permission slips for the Film Festival to your 5th grader's teacher
- It is time to "Pay the Piper" for those snow days..... 1) On Mondays during the weeks of April 3, to June 5, 2023 - there will be an additional 60
- Please follow this link to read the Randall Advanced Learning Newsletter!
- Don't forget to set those clocks ahead one hour for Sunday!!
- "Read In/Stuffy Day" --On Friday, March 24th, our classrooms will have a designated time for the students to just read any text they would like a healthy chunk of time. They are also allowed to bring in a stuffed animal for the day. (Must be able to fit on top of desk along with a text/book.)
minutes of asynchronous learning for grades K-12.
2) April 10, 2023 - will be a full day of asynchronous learning for all grades K-12.
2) April 10, 2023 - will be a full day of asynchronous learning for all grades K-12.
3) More information on this to follow (when we hear more about how we are doing this )
Oldie, but goodies .....
5th Grade Math this week....
- 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.
- This week we started off with a quiz on coordinate grids and ordered pairs that we had to reschedule because of our virtual day.
- We then reviewed our understandings of how to work on how to classify triangles and quadrilaterals.
- Next week we will revisit volume.
Literacy this week....
- Module 3--Athletes Leaders of Social Change
- We will be finishing our mentor text with close reading, discuss the gist of our text, find main ideas and key details.
- We are focusing on writing informational summaries from text........LOTS OF SUMMARIES :)
- We will take our end of Module 3 Unit 1 assessment.
- Next week we will begin Unit 2 that will focus on opinion writing around factors that we felt were the most important in breaking the color barrier in baseball.
Science this week....
- Our third science unit-Earth Systems.
- Unit Question: What can determine how much water is available for human use?
- Chapter Five: How can East Ferris turn wastewater into clean freshwater?
SELS this week...
- Being an Ally in situations involving racism.
- Randall's behavior incentive goal for March is "Board Game Day"
- We are focusing on forgiveness and apologizing
- March's Goal for the whole school: 1000 Paws
Here's the "Randall Way" video for March: https://youtu.be/
