Calendar
Thursday, October 15th--No School for student/Teacher PD Day
Friday, October 16th--No School for students and staff- Mid Fall Break
Friday, October 23rd--Raccoon Rally Fundraiser-- 5th Grade @ 8:00 am
Monday, November 2nd--No School for students--Teacher planning/prep for conferences
--Evening conferences
Tuesday, November 3rd--No school for students/Conference Day
Thursday, November 5th--2nd Quarter begins
Wednesday, November 25th-Friday, November 27th--Fall Break
Monday, November 30th--No school for students--Teacher PD
Monday, Dec. 21st-Friday, January 1st--Winter Break
Monday, January 4th--School begins again!!!
Monday, January 18th-No school for Martin Luther King, Jr Day
Monday, January 29th--No school for students--Grade reporting day
Monday, February 1st--3rd Quarter begins
Friday, February 19th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Monday, March 22nd-26th--Spring Break
Monday, March 29th--School begins again!!!
Monday, April 5th--No School for students--Teacher planning/prep for conferences
--Evening conferences
Tuesday, April 6th--No school for students/Conference Day
Friday, April 9th --No school for students--Teacher PD day
Monday, April 12th--4th Quarter begins
Friday, May 14th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Monday, May 31st--No school for Memorial Day
Thursday, June 3rd (tentative)--5th Grade Field Trip to Lake Kegonsa (Times TBD)
Wednesday, June 9th--5th Grade Moving On Celebration (Times TBD)
Thursday, June 10th--Last day of school!!!
--5th grade field trip to Vilas Park (Time TBD)
New News
- Today we will celebrate West's Homecoming with a parade at the end of the day!!
- Conferences are one month away!! Please click on your 5th grader's class link below to select a day and time to meet!
- Coming Soon! Godfrey's Class Sign-Up is in Parent Square :) for parent teacher conferences in November 2/3.
Oldie, but Goodies
Math
- This week the 5th grade math class did some assessments on volume, factors, multiples and the associative property to write/ solve expressions/equations and with multiplication and division strategies.
- Next week we will begin Unit 2 on addition and subtracting fractions.
- Our Number Corner for October will focus on order of operations, views and volumes of mystery buildings, making organized lists to solve problems, and collecting/displaying/
analyzing/graphing data using double line graphs.
Literacy this week
- We are in our first EL unit of the year based on Stories of Human Rights this week.
- We will be using a variety of texts. Our main texts will be the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan and an abridged version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- This week we continued to read our text, discuss and recognize when human rights are being violated in the story and summarized our learning by highlighting main ideas and supporting details.
- This week we also started to look at how to write a character reaction paragraph based on events in the story. We will continue to practice these skills next week.
- During our ALL Block, students are working with teachers in small groups, doing independent reading and working on literacy skills (spelling, grammar, writing, main ideas, etc.)
Science
- Our first unit will be on Modeling Matter as we answer the question:
What happens when two substances are mixed together?
- Our first chapter will focus on : Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?
- Our second chapter will focus on : Why do some salad dressings have sediments and others do not?
SELS:
- Cultural Identity
Health lessons
- Effective communication to express personal needs
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