March 10

 What's Up in 5th Grade?

Calendar

• 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
• 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......

• How about that rain this week??  Wow!
• Please return permission slips for the Film Festival to your 5th grader's teacher

Oldie, but goodies ..... 

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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 took the Unit 5 assessment and the Bridges Interim Assessment #2
• Then, we jumped into Unit  6 and started refreshing our skills with coordinate grids.  
• Next week we will add onto these skills by looking a patterns and sequences  with our ordered pairs.  Finally, we will take a quiz to assess how we are doing.  

Literacy this week....

• This week we started Module 3--Athletes Leaders of Social Change
• We explored our mentor text, did some close reading,discussed the gist of our text, found main ideas and key details.

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?
• Next week we will start Chapter Four: What is there more water vapor high up over West Ferris than East Ferris?

Social Studies this week....

•  Black History Month---Classrooms finished up our work on this early in the week. 

SELS this week...

• Being an Ally in situations involving ability
• Randall's behavior incentive goal for March is (tbd)
•  We are focusing on (tbd)
• March's Goal for the whole school:  Paws (tbd)
Here's the Randall Way video for March - (not available yet)

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.