Book Share

 We will be hosting a bookshare towards the end of the year where we are hoping to have enough books for kids to choose a couple to bring home to read.  We need donated, slightly used books for this purpose.  Are you able to donate books?  If so please send the books to Randall with your scholar.  

Book It With Bucky!!!

 Dear 5th Grade Families--

This week your child will bring home a "Book It With Bucky" reading log.  For every 30 minutes they read, the get to fill in a 

Once they fill in the whole log (15 hours total) they can earn tickets to a game on December 12th (more info to come on how to redeem tickets).  

Every week in our blog titled "What's Up In 5th Grade?", we will give you the number of hours dedicated to independent reading here at school. They can add these minutes to their log at home, too!!  

Go Bucky and Randall 5th Graders!!!

What's Up in 5th Grade?

No School Friday, October 22nd

 Picture Make-Up Day is November 18th

Please sign up for a conference time!

Conference Days-November 4th and 5th

Math                                                                                

• fiinding common denominators to add and subtract
• ratio tables
• order of operations using parentheses
• finding the "best deal"
• working with creepy carrots --weighing and graphing
• working with mystery buildings (deciphering front view/side view/top view)

Social Studies

• Migration of people --past and present
• Creation stories of some Indigenous People

Literacy  

• compound words
• prefixes
• suffixes
• answering questions explictly while quoting accurately from a text
• backing up inferences with evidence from text
• practicing paragraph writing
• reading and writing around non-fiction texts
• narratives and creative writing
• independent reading with reading responses
• Literacy text we used this week

SELS/Health

• Hispanic Heritage Month
• Empathy
• How to be an ally to someone being bullied

Book It With Bucky--2 hours 

Conference Time!!

👀 Be looking in your email for a sign up from your teacher for 

conferences the first week of November!!👀

 

ANet Testing --Tuesday, October 26 and Wednesday, Octover 27th

 Dear Families,

We wish to let you know of an upcoming reading assessment called ANet (Achievement Network) that will be taking place between Oct. 19 and Oct. 29. 

This assessment is to inform our teaching, not to evaluate individual student achievement. 

In this assessment students will be asked to read a grade-level passage to themselves and then answer questions about that passage, including a written response.  We’ll be able to identify what most students can do and what they still need to learn. This will help us plan more focused reading instruction. 

If you have any questions about this assessment, please feel free to contact your child’s teacher or our instructional coach, Anne Marie Streeter(astreeter@madison.k12.wi.us).

Thank you!