Week of October 23

 

Calendar

Monday, October 26th--5th Grade visits Wright Middle School

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

Thursday, November 12th--Picture Retake Day

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

Saturday, March 13th--West Area String Festival @ 2:30

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

Friday, May 28th--Strings Concert at Randall @ 10:45-11:15

Monday, May 31st--No school for Memorial Day

Thursday, June 3rd --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

• No school for teacher PD and conferences on Monday, November 2nd and Tuesday, November 3rd!  Please use the links below to double check the time you selected for your 5th grader's conference for Kampa and Faber's Class. 

Math

•  Last week and this week we focused on multiplying fractions by whole numbers.  Then, we revisited adding and subtraction of fractions by finding common denominators and equivalent fractions.
• Next week we will finish up this work, review modules 1, 2 and 3 and take an assessment on this.  
• Bridges Unit 3 will focus on place values and working with decimals. 
• 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.  
• Our Number Corner for November will focus on finding patterns within the metric system and classifying and recognizing triangles based on lengths of sides and angles.   

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. 
• Every week we will 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. 
• Last week we continued to work on creating character reaction paragraphs. This week we took a mid-unit assessment on recognizing character reactions. We also read and wrote two person poems. Ask your child about their work.  
• Next week we will be using a sample essay to help us plan for and create individual essays as a end of Unit 2 assessment. 
• After conferences, we will begin Unit 3 of this module where students will be working on their end of our first EL unit project!
• 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?                                                                                                                                             
• Our third chapter will focus on :  Why can salad dressing ingredients  separate again after being mixed?                                                                                                                                   

  Social Studies

                                                               

• Our first mini-unit in social studies will be using the text Mountain Work Woman by Diane Holliday.  This text is following the story of a Wisconsin member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.  We will be doing this unit for approximately two weeks.                                                                                                                   

SELS:

• Values and My Future  5.1.3
• Decisions and My Values 5.1.4

Health lessons

• Strategies for Managing Emotions
• Practicing Asking for Help