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!