What's Up in 5th Grade?

 Early Release Monday, Nov. 1st at 10:35 am

No School for students--Friday, November 5th

 Picture Make-Up Day is November 18th

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)
• Unit 2 assessment
• Unit 3 will be about Place Value and Decimals

Social Studies

• Reading and research on Indigenous tribes
• Project work (ask your 5th grader to show you their progress so far)

Literacy  

• "ar", "er" and "or" words
• answering questions explictly while quoting accurately from a text
• backing up inferences with evidence from text
• practicing paragraph writing
• essay writing
• reading and writing around non-fiction texts
• narratives and creative writing
• independent reading with reading responses

SELS/Health

• Empathy
• Multiple Intelligences
• Effective Communication

Book It With Bucky--2 hours 

Conference with Specials Teachers

 From Mr Harrod (Music) - Hi Raccoon families! Students just finished learning about music for Hispanic Heritage Month (specifically about Cumbio from Columbia), and now we're adding it to a list of Groove Tune ingredients for making groovy songs on hand drums. If you would like a conference time with me, please email me  at maharrod@madison.k12.wi.us. 

From Mr Bakkun (PE) - Hello Randall families. We’ve been spending some time playing games, working on jump rope skills and we are starting a paddle striking unit in Physical education. All the students are working hard. If you would like a conference, email me and we can set up a time to zoom.  Bakken@madison.k12.wi.us

From Ms Sharrock (LMC/RCH) - Welcome back Raccoons. I am the new Library Media Technology Specialist for Randall.  In LMC/Reach we have been exploring Internet  Safety and Digital Citizenship. Our next unit will revolve around building maker spaces and Research skills. If you are interested in setting up a conference please email me at gmsharrock@madison.k12.wi.us and we can set a time for a zoom meeting. 

Opportunity to Learn More!

 During our unit on Patterns of Earth and Sky in Science our fifth graders learned a TON! If your family would like to see more, learn more, experience more, here is a link to the UW Department of Astronomy's public observing at Washburn Observatory. Check it out!