Calendar
Sunday, November 2nd--Daylight Savings ....turn back those clocks one hour :)
Monday, November 3rd--No School for students--Teacher planning/prep for conferences
--Evening conferences
Tuesday, November 4th--No school for students/Conference Day
Thursday, November 6th--2nd Quarter begins
Friday, November 7th--5th Grade tours Wright Middle School (9:30-11:00)
Thursday, November 13th-Picture Retake Day
Wednesday, November 26th-Friday, November 28th--Fall Break
Monday, December 1st--No school for students--Teacher PD
Friday, December 12th--Family Movie Night 6-8 pm Randall Cafeteria
Monday, Dec. 22nd-Tuesday, January 2nd--Winter Break
Monday, January 5th--School begins again!!!
Monday, January 19th-No school for Martin Luther King, Jr Day
Monday, January 30th--No school for students--Grade reporting day
Monday, February 2nd--3rd Quarter begins
Saturday, February 7th-- Glow Ball @ Franklin Elementary 5:30-7:30
Friday, February 20th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Monday, March 2nd--No School for students--Teacher planning/prep for conferences
--Evening conferences
Tuesday, March 3rd--No school for students/Conference Day
Saturday, March 14th--Super Science Saturday
Monday, March 23rd-27th--Spring Break
Monday, March 30th--School begins again!!!
Monday, April 6th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Tuesday, April 7th--4th Quarter begins
Friday, May 8th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Monday, May 25th--No school for Memorial Day
Tuesday, June 2nd--Talent Show
Thursday, June 4th--5th Grade Field Trip to......(tbd)
Tuesday, June 9th--Music Concert/Moving On Celebration (1:00 ish-2:30)
Wednesday, June 10th--Last day of school!!!
--5th grade field trip to Vilas Park (11am -2 pm)
New News
Gain an hour of sleep this Sunday into Monday for Daylight Savings!!!
Remember there is no school Monday, November 3rd for a staff PD day and Tuesday, November 4th for Fall Conferences.
- Fall Conferences next Monday and Tuesday!
If you need a reminder for your time, you can also use the links below. See you soon!Oldie, but Goodies
- Looking ahead.......Wright Middle School has generously offered to provide bus transportation for our 5th grade classes to come take a tour on Friday, November 10th! This is for all students even if they know they want to attend Hamilton next year. What a treat :)
Math
- This week we finished up Module 3, reviewed Modules 1-3 and took the assessment.
- Next week there will be a mini-unit on GCF and LCM.
- Unit 3 will begin the week of November 10th. This unit will be on place value and decimals.
- November Number Corner will focus on classifying triangles based on angles and lengths of sides. In addition, we will include some work with coordinate grids and transformations. Finally, we will introduce and look for patterns when comparing measurements within the metric system for length.
Literacy this week
- This week we worked on Module 1/Unit 2. The texts we will be using are Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan and an abridged version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- We are will continue to work on speaking and writing about what we read.
- Finally, using a model, cooperative classwork and some independent work, students wrote their first literary essay of the year. We hope to share these at conferences,
- We continued to follow Esperanza's story as her and her family fled Mexico to the United States. Ask your 5th grader to tell you about the story.
- For our ALL block this week, we engaged in various reading skill activities that include: fluency work, summarizing, discussion, grammar and vocabulary.
- Each classroom is doing a read aloud as well! Ask your 5th grader what book we are using.
Science --This unit was completed 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--Starting next week!!
- We are using a text called Mountain Wolf Woman-A Ho-Chunk Girlhood by Diane Holliday.
- We will be reading, engaging in discussion, working with vocabulary and various activities to try and gain a deeper understanding of the Ho-Chunk nation.
- We will be in this unit for 3 weeks.
SELS/Health lessons
- Zones of Regulation
- Examining Feelings and Emotions
