Week of October 30

 

Calendar

Sunday, November 1st--Daylight Saving Day.....don't forget to set your clocks back one

                                                                                                                                     hour!

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 students next Monday, November 2nd and Tuesday, November 3rd for teacher PD and conferences.  We look forward to touching base with our families!
• Due to the shortened week next week, the next blog update for "What's Up in 5th Grade?" will be published on November 13th.

Math

•  This week we finished up, reviewed and assessed Unit 2 Modules 1, 2 and 3.
• Next week we will spend a few days specifically looking at Greatest Common Factors and Least Common Multiples to close out Unit 2.
• Bridges Unit 3 will focus on place values and working with decimals and will begin the week of November 9th.
• 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. 
• This week we worked on creating a literary character comparison reaction essay 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--This unit was finished this week.

• 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--We started this unit this week. 

                                                               

• 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.