What's up in 5th Grade?

 

                                                       

Math                                                                                

• Review days :)  Check with your 5th grader on what they are working on because each teacher has their own plan of action based on classroom needs.

                    

Science

• We finished our last science unit!!
• For the remainder of the year we will use this time to explore topics in social studies and science that the students want to learn more about.

Literacy  

• Word Work this week involved some review games and taking a final spelling check. 
• Each classroom is doing their own Whole Group Reading for the remaining weeks and writing projects.  Ask your child to share with you!
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.  
• Creative Writing

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 

Moving On Celebration

Wednesday, June 8th 

1:30-2:25 pm

Randall Playground

• 12:45 pm - Playground will be open for families to come in a find a spot to sit (bring your own chair or blanket)

• 1:15-1:30 pm - Classes line up and come out to the playground

• 1:30-1:50 pm - Words to the graduates and music presentation

• 1:50-2:10 pm - Classroom student names will be announced

•  2:10-2:25 pm - Greet and gather with families

Last day of school is June 9!! 

Remember that it is a full day...:)

Math                                                                                

• Review days :)  Check with your 5th grader on what they are working on because each teacher has their own plan of action based on classroom needs.

                    

Science

• We finished our last science unit!!
• For the remainder of the year we will use this time to explore topics in social studies and science that the students want to learn more about.

Literacy  

• Word Work this week involved some review games and taking a final spelling check. 
• Each classroom is doing their own Whole Group Reading for the remaining weeks and writing projects.  Ask your child to share with you!
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.  

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 

No School for Students

Friday, May 27th

Choiceboard Activities will be posted in SeeSaw!!

No School-- Memorial Day

Monday, May 30

Strings Concert 

ZOOM LINK  

Dongarra/Kampa--May 31st @ 10:00

Chromebook Wellness Checks

Kampa/Faber/Godfrey--Wednesday, June 1st

Dongarra--Thursday, June 2nd

**Please make sure your 5th grader brings their charging cord that day so we can check how it is working!

Moving On Celebration

Wednesday, June 8th 

1:30-2:25 pm

Randall Playground

Last day of school is June 9!! 

Remember that it is a full day...:)

Math                                                                                

• Review days :)  Check with your 5th grader on what they are working on because each teacher has their own plan of action based on classroom needs.

                    

Science

• We finished our last science unit!!
• For the remainder of the year we will use this time to explore topics in social studies and science that the students want to learn more about.

Literacy  

• Word Work this week involved lessons on common latin roots: port, form,  ject 
• Each classroom is doing their own Whole Group Reading for the remaining weeks and writing projects.  Ask your child to share with you!
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.  

What's Up in 5th Grade??

 

No School for Students

Friday, May 27th

Choiceboard Activities will be posted in SeeSaw!!

Strings Concert 

ZOOM LINK  

Faber--May 25th @ 10:10

Godfrey--May 26th @ 10:10

Dongarra/Kampa--May 31st @ 10:00

Chromebook Wellness Checks

Kampa/Faber/Godfrey--Wednesday, June 1st

Dongarra--Thursday, June 2nd

**Please make sure your 5th grader brings their charging cord that day so we can check how it is working!

Moving On Celebration

Wednesday, June 8th 

1:30-2:25 pm

Randall Playground

Math                                                                                

• This week we worked with division problems involving money and finding area with multiplication of decimals. 
• We also took our Unit 7 Post-Test!!! 
• We continued with our May number corner activities which will include a lot of graphing/coordinate grid work and conversion work using the customary system of measurement.
• For the remaining weeks of school, we will be reviewing some work from this year in areas where the students may have struggled.  Every day will be a new adventure :)

                    

Science

• We are almost done with our final science unit on Ecosystem Restoration.  
• How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and and energy they need to grow and thrive?
• This week we continued to learn, discuss and think about: 
• Why aren't the cecropia trees growing and thriving in the soil?
• We will finish this unit next week!!
• For the remainder of the year we will use this time to explore topics in social studies and science that the students want to learn more about.
• Thursday was Garden Day at Randall!  Ask your child what they did in the Randall Outdoor Garden.

Literacy  

• Word Work this week involved lessons on common suffixes and looking at vocabulary strategies for  suffixes. 
• Each classroom is doing their own Whole Group Reading for the remaining weeks and writing projects.  Ask your child to share with you!
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.  

LMC Information

 *Ms. Sharock has sent the following information to classroom teachers, and we would like to pass this on to you:

This will be the last week for book checkouts.  All books are due back on May 31st so that we can follow up on recovering late overdue books before the end of the year. ~ Ms. Sharock

Please also remind your student to bring in their chromebook and charger to school on June 1st so that they can be checked over prior to summer break. 5th graders will be taking chromebooks and chargers home for the summer and will bring them to their middle school in September. ~Ms. Sharock

If you have any questions related to either of the above pieces of information, please reach out to Ms. Sharock at (gmsharrock@madison.k12.wi.us).

Chromebook Wellness Checks

 

5th Grade chromebooks and chargers will have a chromebook Wellness check June 1 or-June 2nd   Students will exchange devices that need repairs and need to show that they have a charger for their device.  After the wellness check 5th grade students will keep both their device and charger for use in middle school.

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 

Moving On Celebration

Wednesday, June 8th 

1:30-2:25 pm

Randall Playground

Math                                                                                

• This week we worked with multiplying and dividing with powers of 10. 
• We continued with our May number corner activities which will include a lot of graphing/coordinate grid work and conversion work using the customary system of measurement.
• Next week we will work division problems involving money and finding area with multiplication of decimals. 

                    

Science

• We began our final science unit on Ecosystem Restoration.  
• How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and and energy they need to grow and thrive?
• This week we continued to learn, discuss and think about: 
• Why aren't the cecropia trees growing and thriving?
• Next week we will start our final chapter in this unit!

Literacy  

• Word Work this week involved lessons on the "not as common" prefixes:  fore, pro, inter, intra, pre, trans, non, over, sub, super, semi, anti, mid, ex, post
• Whole Group Reading continued with work on point of view and perspective while we read and learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre and also synthesizing information from multiple sources. 
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.  This week worked on supporting our opinions with reasons and evidence within a paragraph and essay structure. 

What's Up in 5th Grade?

Math                                                                                

• This week we continued to work with one another on story problems, using estimation to help us find reasonable answers, and discussed  how to handle remainders in ways that made logical sense. 
• We took another Bridges Interim assessment to check our understanding of math this year.
• We started our May number corner activities which will include a lot of graphing/coordinate grid work and conversion work using the customary system of measurement.
• Next week we will work with powers of 10 and multiplication of decimals!

                    

Science

• We began our final science unit on Ecosystem Restoration.  We will be answering the question: 
• How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and and energy they need to grow and thrive?
• This week we continued to learn, discuss and think about: 
• Why aren't the cecropia trees growing and thriving?
• A "Virtual Farm Tour" was part of our Thursday fun.  Ask your child what they saw and learned.

Literacy  

• Word Work this week involved lessons on the specific prefixes:  pre, mis, non and ex
• Whole Group Reading continued with work on point of view and perspective. 
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.  This week worked on supporting our opinions with reasons and evidence within a paragraph and essay structure. 
• All students were invited to a book share in the library to access some "gently used, but new to me" books.

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 

REPEAT INFORMATION

Asynchronous Early Release Mondays/Staff PD Day

Yikes! I thought we were done typing/reading that word :)  Well, DPI and the MMSD School District has informed us that we need to make up instructional minutes for those three days students missed in January right after Winter Break.  In an attempt not to add minutes to the day or adding days at the end of the year, your child have an assignment in SeeSaw every Monday (see below). This will begin  Monday, April 25th.This will be independent work and up to your family to use as you see fit.  

Mondays will look something like:

(Friday, May 27th will look a bit different--more to come.)

To Do:

1. Lexia (30 minutes)
2. DreamBox (30 minutes)
3. Independent Reading (30 minutes)
4. AL opportunities in SeeSaw (optional)

Math                                                                                

• This week we practiced our learning to try and figure some story problems using partial products and partial quotients.
• We took a  a couple of quizzes.
• We continued to work with one another on story problems, using estimation to help us find reasonable answers, and discussed  how to handle remainders in ways that made logical sense. 

                    

Science

• We began our final science unit on Ecosystem Restoration.  We will be answering the question: 
• How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and and energy they need to grow and thrive?
• This week we continued to learn and think about: 
• "Why aren't the jaguars and sloths growing and thriving?

Literacy  

• Word Work this week involved lessons on prefix/suffix/root word spelling and meaning.
• Whole Group Reading continued with work on point of view and perspective. 
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.  This week we looked at some organization maps to help us plan our writing.  We also started on our first topic plan.  
• Next week, we will take our plan and develop it to a more formal version. 

What's Up in 5th Grade?

Spring has Sprung!!

Asynchronous Early Release Mondays/Staff PD Day

Yikes! I thought we were done typing/reading that word :)  Well, DPI and the MMSD School District has informed us that we need to make up instructional minutes for those three days students missed in January right after Winter Break.  In an attempt not to add minutes to the day or adding days at the end of the year, your child have an assignment in SeeSaw every Monday (see below). This will begin this upcoming Monday, April 25th.This will be independent work and up to your family to use as you see fit.  

Mondays will look something like:

(Friday, May 27th will look a bit different--more to come.)

To Do:

1. Lexia (30 minutes)
2. DreamBox (30 minutes)
3. Independent Reading (30 minutes)
4. AL opportunities in SeeSaw (optional)

Math                                                                                

• This week we started with a review day for Unit 6 and then took the assessment!
• Next, we started off Unit 7 by looking at and working with partial quotients.
• Next week we will use our learning to try and figure some story problems using partial products and partial quotients.

                    

Science

• Human Growth and Development was completed with a question and answer session with Nurse Amber.
• We began our final science unit on Ecosystem Restoration.  We will be answering the question: 
• How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and and energy they need to grow and thrive?
• This week we started to think about: "Why aren't the jaguars and sloths growing and thriving?

Literacy  

• Word Work this week was a review week of past learning.
• Whole Group Reading continued with work on point of view and perspective. 
• Book Bowl was on Wednesday!! This was so fun to watch!
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.  This week we did some discussions on how we will structure this writing and then did some quick writes to get us in the groove for writing our opinions!

Math Resources to use at home!!

 

Math Learning Center Free Resources site

Here are the old workbooks that they have on that site. 

 Math at Home site. It doesn't have printables, but the activities are pretty nice on it.

Here's a 5th grade review packet I made with a lot of different resources. 

Here's the answer key. 

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 Thanks for meeting with us yesterday!!

It was great to connect with families and make a plan for your 5th grader's last semester as a  Randall Raccoon!!

Math                                                                                

• This week we only had a few days of math instruction due to our Forward testing.
• We started off the week with review of how to find area.
• Next Monday we will have a review day and take a test for Unit 6 on Tuesday.
• Unit 7 will be focused on division, decimals and powers of 10!!

                    

Science

• Human Growth and Development--see below
• Next week we will start our final science unit on Ecosystem Restoration.  We will be answering the question: 
• How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and and energy they need to grow and thrive?

Literacy  

• Word Work this week included work with verb tenses. 
• Whole Group Reading starting a unit on point of view and perspective. 
• Book Bowl is next week on Wednesday!! 
• Our genre "Book Bowl Books" continues on.  Students participating in Book Bowl will have an opportunity to do some closer reading for their upcoming competition while also strengthening their writing skills.   Those NOT participating in Book Bowl will get a chance to read at least one of the books so that they can be an active audience member. 
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.

Health

• Human Growth and Development lessons below.
• Next week with a follow-up discussion with the nurse 

• Lesson 1: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Identity

  Lesson 2: Puberty and Adolescent Development 

  Lesson 3: Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology, Pregnancy and Reproduction 

  Lesson 4: Your Body, Your Rights

What's Up in 5th Grade??

 

Early Release 

Thursday, April 14th 

@ 10:35

for Conferences 

Click below for the conference schedules and zoom links:

Kampa Class Conference Sign-up

Kampa Conference Zoom Link

Godfrey Class Conference Sign-up

Godfrey Conference Zoom Link

Faber Class Conference Sign-up

Faber Conference Zoom Link

Math                                                                                

• This week we started off with a quiz reviewing our learning from before Spring Break on shapes.
• Next, we revisited our old friend--volume of prisms!   (This has been a great review before we do our Forward testing next week in math.)

                    

Science

• What Can Determine How Much Water Is Available For Human Use?  
• We finished up our investigation of our Chapter 5 question: "How can East Ferris turn wastewater into clean freshwater?"
• Next week we will take a break and do some Human Growth and Development.
• The week of April 18th we will start our final science unit on Ecosystem Restoration.

Literacy  

• Word Work this week included work with homophones. 
• Whole Group Reading starting a unit on point of view and perspective. 
• We did our Literacy Forward Exams this week.
•  Our genre "Book Bowl Books" continues on.  Students participating in Book Bowl will have an opportunity to do some closer reading for their upcoming competition while also strengthening their writing skills.   Those NOT participating in Book Bowl will get a chance to read at least one of the books so that they can be an active audience member. 
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.

Health

• Human Growth and Development lessons will take place next week with a follow-up discussion with the nurse the week after.

What's Up in 5th Grade?

  

   

 

No school next week for Spring Break!!  

School reopens on Monday, April 4th

Mark your calendar!!

1. End of 3rd Quarter--March 25th
2. Spring Break--March 28-April 1st
3. Week of April 4-8--Literacy Forward Testing 
4. Week of April 11-15--Math Forward Testing
5. Early Release @ 10:45 on Friday, April 8th for conference prep
6. Early Release @ 10:45 on Thursday, April 14th for Parent Teacher Conferences

Click below for sign-ups:

Kampa Class Conference Sign-up

Godfrey Class Conference Sign-up

Faber Class Conference Sign-up

Dongarra Class Conference Sign-up

Math                                                                                

• This week we switched gears and looked at how to classify polygons.  How are they similar? How are they different? Nothing like some good geometry riddles to challenge us right before Spring Break!  
• For number corner we are continuing to look at area involving whole number and decimals.  We are also measuring and putting out measurements on a line plot. 
• After Spring Break,  we will revisit our old friend--volume!!

                    

Science

• What Can Determine How Much Water Is Available For Human Use?  This is the question for our next unit in science on Earth Systems.
• We finished up Chapter 4 question: "Why is there more water vapor high up over West Ferris than East Ferris?
• We took a mid-unit assessment.
• We started to look at Chapter 5 question: "How can East Ferris turn wastewater into clean freshwater?"
• Ask your 5th grader to share their thoughts on the question(s) so far....

Literacy  

• Word Work this week included taking another spelling screener and doing some remedial work as needed. 
• Whole Group Reading involved a variety of activities involving looking at Forward testing materials, working on our reading responses, and starting to think about what we want to share at conference time. 
•  Our new genre is "Book Bowl Books".  Students participating in Book Bowl will have an opportunity to do some closer reading for their upcoming competition while also strengthening their writing skills.   Those NOT participating in Book Bowl will get a chance to read at least one of the books so that they can be an active audience member. 
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.

Health

• Look for the informational letter coming home about upcoming lessons on Human Growth and Development

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 Friendly Reminder........

No school tomorrow--Friday, March 18th

Mark your calendar!!

1. End of 3rd Quarter--March 25th
2. Spring Break--March 28-April 1st
3. Week of April 4-8--Literacy Forward Testing 
4. Week of April 11-15--Math Forward Testing
5. Early Release @ 10:45 on Friday, April 8th for conference prep
6. Early Release @ 10:45 on Thursday, April 14th for Parent Teacher Conferences

Click below for sign-ups:

Kampa Class Conference Sign-up

Godfrey Class Conference Sign-up

Faber Class Conference Sign-up

Dongarra Class Conference Sign-up

Math                                                                                

• For our first full week in Unit 6 we spent time discovering, describing and graphing patterns on coordinate grids. This can be tricky and we have utilize all of our math skills to figure these out! 
• For number corner we are continuing to look at area involving whole number and decimals.  We are also measuring and putting out measurements on a line plot. 
• Next week we will look at how to classify polygons.

                    

Science

• What Can Determine How Much Water Is Available For Human Use?  This is the question for our next unit in science on Earth Systems.
• Chapter 3 question: "Why is there more water vapor high up over West Ferris than East Ferris?
• Ask your 5th grader to share their thoughts on the question(s) so far....

Literacy  

• Word Work this week included working with inflectional endings (s, es, ing, ed, er, est).
• Whole Group Reading involved our third ANet assessment.  
• Next week we will take another spelling screener and look at some of the preparation materials for Forward testing that will begin after Break. 
•  Our new genre is "Book Bowl Books".  Students participating in Book Bowl will have an opportunity to do some closer reading for their upcoming competition while also strengthening their writing skills.   Those NOT participating in Book Bowl will get a chance to read at least one of the books so that they can be an active audience member. 
• Quarter 4 writing genre will be opinion.

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 

Friendly Reminder........

Daylight Savings is this Sunday, March 13th

"Spring Forward" one hour!!

Mark your calendar!!

1. No School on Friday, March 18th
2. End of 3rd Quarter--March 25th
3. Spring Break--March 28-April 1st
4. Early Release @ 10:45 on Friday, April 8th for conference prep
5. Early Release @ 10:45 on Thursday, April 14th for Parent Teacher Conferences

Click below for sign-ups:

Kampa Class Conference Sign-up

Godfrey Class Conference Sign-up

Faber Class Conference Sign-up

Dongarra Class Conference Sign-up

Math                                                                                

• We took a test on Unit 5.
• We began work on Unit 6 that involves:
• coordinate grids
• generating two numerical patterns given two different rules
• dividing 3-digit whole numbers by 2-digit whole numbers
• revisiting volume
• graphing 
• classifying 2-dimensional figures

                      Don't forget.....

• Continue to work on those math facts at home if your 5th grader is not fluent.  This is critical at this point in their math progression.  

Science

• What Can Determine How Much Water Is Available For Human Use?  This is the question for our next unit in science on Earth Systems.
• Chapter 3 question:  "Why is more water vapor getting cold over West Ferris than East Ferris?
• Ask your 5th grader to share their thoughts on the question(s) so far....

Literacy  

• Word Work this week included working with the schwa sound and syllables.
• Whole Group Reading involved revisiting our last ANet assessment.  We will continue next week to look closer at how to respond to a writing sample. 
• Next week we take the 3rd ANet assessment and hope that our hard work over the past work can be seen!!
•  Our new genre is "Book Bowl Books".  Students participating in Book Bowl will have an opportunity to do some closer reading for their upcoming competition while also strengthening their writing skills.   Those NOT participating in Book Bowl will get a chance to read at least one of the books so that they can be an active audience member. 
• Students were assigned their Black History Month project in February.  Each 5th grade may be doing this different.  Ask your 5th grader what they will be researching, writing, and creating for this project. 

SELS/Health

• Celebrating Women's International Day

5th Grade Girl Scout Troop Cookie Sales

 Have you bought your GIRL SCOUT COOKIES YET???????

Just follow the below link for CONTACT-FREE, FREE HOME DELIVERY, complete with a Girl Scout SMILE!!! 

Please go to this LINK

 

~ Make sure to order extra cookies for gifts to teachers, family, friends, doctors & nurses, & neighbors, to serve to your guests or for your family to enjoy now and put in your freezer to last all year long. ~

 These only come along once a year! 

 

Credit/debit card will ONLY be charged if your address is in our range 

to girl-deliver to your doorstep, within 1-5 days.

 

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING

Randall Elementary’s Girl Scout Junior Troop 8156!!!

We really, really, really do appreciate your support!!!!!!! Thank you again!!!!!!

Thin Mints! Caramel deLites! Peanut Butter Patties! Peanut Butter Sandwiches! Lemonades! Shortbread! Toast-Yay! NEW Adventurefuls! Gluten Free Caramel Chocolate Chip!

Field Trip Follow - Up/ End of Year fun :)

 This week each of the 5th grade classrooms were able to go on an ice skating field trip and a good time was had by all.

We were informed this afternoon that there are funds now available to cover the cost of ice skating for the entire school, so the money that we have already collected for 5th graders will go towards a special end of the year celebration (TBD) in our final days together as Raccoons.

We will keep you informed of our plans as the time gets closer.  As always, thank you to all of our amazing Randall families!

What's Up in 5th Grade?

Ice Skating Is Next Week!!!  

March 9th--Godfrey/Dongarra

March 10--Kampa/Faber 

Mark your calendar!!

1. No School on Friday, March 18th
2. End of 3rd Quarter--March 25th
3. Spring Break--March 28-April 1st
4. Early Release @ 10:45 on Friday, April 8th for conference prep
5. Early Release @ 10:45 on Thursday, April 14th for Parent Teacher Conferences

Click below for sign-ups:

Kampa Class Conference Sign-up

Godfrey Class Conference Sign-up

Faber Class Conference Sign-up

Dongarra Class Conference Sign-up

Math                                                                                

• We reviewed Unit 5 learning.
• Next week we will have a test on Unit 5. (Look for review work to come home.)

                       Specifically....

• We worked with division involving both fractions and whole numbers.
• We worked to create and understand models to represent division involving both fractions and whole numbers.
• We worked with modeling fraction multiplication story problems.
• We worked with area of objects with fractions for dimensions.
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                      Don't forget.....

• Continue to work on those math facts at home if your 5th grader is not fluent.  This is critical at this point in their math progression.  

Science

• What Can Determine How Much Water Is Available For Human Use?  This is the question for our next unit in science on Earth Systems.
• Chapter 2 question:  "Why does more rain form over West Ferris than East Ferris?
• Ask your 5th grader to share their thoughts on the question(s) so far....

Literacy  

• Word Work this week included working with vowel combination syllables 
• Whole Group Reading involved revisiting our last ANet assessment.  We will continue next week to look closer at how to respond to a writing sample. 
• We continued to read and respond to our Survival books. Our next genre will be "Book Bowl Books".  Students participating in Book Bowl will have an opportunity to do some closer reading for their upcoming competition while also strengthening their writing skills.   Those NOT participating in Book Bowl will get a chance to read at least one of the books so that they can be an active audience member. 
• Students were assigned their Black History Month project in February.  Each 5th grade may be doing this different.  Ask your 5th grader what they will be researching, writing, and creating for this project. 

SELS/Health

• Creating Healthy Routines