Week of November 13

 

Calendar

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 students on:

 Fall Break: Wednesday, November 25th/Thursday, November 26th/

Friday, November 27th 

                    AND 

                   Teacher PD: Monday, November 30th

Math

•  This week we we started Bridges Unit 3 that is focusing on place values and working with decimals.
• 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. 
• This week we worked on creating a monologue with a group for the final EL Unit 1 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 2nd Unit will begin the week of November 16th!

• Our first unit will be about Ecosystem Restoration as we answer the question:

How do organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and energy they need to grow and thrive?

• Our first chapter will focus on :  Why aren't the jaguars and sloths growing and thriving?
• Our second chapter will focus on :  Why aren't the cecropia trees growing and thriving?
• Our third chapter will focus on :  Why aren't the cecropia trees growing and thriving in the soil?

  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:

• Self-Awareness: Personal Strengths and Weaknesses 5.2.1

Health lessons

• Taking Care of Your Body