Calendar
Thursday, May 7th--Japanese Drum Performance @ 1:00 pm
Friday, May 8th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
May 11-May 15 Scholastic Book Fair (See separate blog post) Godfrey's eWallet link: https://shop.scholastic.com/ewallet/fund?lang=en_US&walletId=f840fe0b-6306-4725-977b-da2fa87ae070
Monday, May 25th--No school for Memorial Day
Monday, June 1st--Franklin/Randall End of Year Ice Cream Sandwich Social
at Brittingham Park Shelter 5:30-7:00 pm
Tuesday, June 2nd--Talent Show
Wednesday, June 3rd--Superbowl Football Games (all day)
Thursday, June 4th--5th Grade Field Trip to Lake Kegonsa
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 (9:30am -12:45 pm)
--West High School graduate walk through at Randall (12:45)
New News
- Over the next few weeks, we will engage in our final round of MMSD assessments for the year. Your child will be assessed on reading fluency, reading comprehension, microphases (spelling) and a final math interim assessment.
Oldie, but Goodies
- Human Growth and Development Dates
Faber 5/5, 5/7, 5/12
Kampa 5/12, 5/14, 5/19
Dickerson 5/19, 5/21, 5/26
- We have sent home permission slips for two more field trips at beginning of June. We will need parent volunteers to join us at Lake Kegonsa to allow for more freedom of activities with smaller groups. PLEASE consider joining us on Thursday, June 4th. Chaperones do need to be Level 2 approved. Here is the link you can use to make this happen. Please do this asap if you plan to join us so that the your application has time to be approved. We can't allow parent chaperones who have not gone through this process to attend. This is an MMSD rule.
- Interested in volunteering at Randall or chaperoning a field trip with your child's class - start the process now by visiting the Volunteering page at MMSD’s website.
Math
- This week we started Unit 7 in our Bridges Curriculum. Unit 7 will focus on division of whole numbers and fractions.
- May Number Corner will focus on ordered pairs, coordinate grids, customary units in measuring volume with liquids and using conversion strategies to go from cups to ounces.
Literacy this week
- This week we continued our work in Module 3 of EL titled-- Athlete Leaders of Social Change.
- We are reading a non-fiction text called Promises to Keep by Sharon Robinson. She is the daughter of Jackie Robinson and we will learn a lot about his personal and professional history and his journey to become an inspirational athlete for social change.
- We will continue to work on speaking and writing about what we read.
- This week we started to work on our comparison essay between Jackie Robinson's factors for success with another athlete that broke a social barrier.
- After this essay is complete, 5th graders will engage in one final project for this module. They will create and present a slideshow on Factor of Success.
- 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 --Patterns of Earth and Sky
Our third unit in science will be: Patterns of Earth and Sky as we answer the question:
Why do we see different stars at different times?
- Our first chapter will focus on : Why don't we see a lot of stars in the daytime?
- Our second chapter will focus on : Why is the sun up sometimes, but not other times?
- Our third chapter will focus on : Why do we see different stars at different times of the year?
- Our fourth chapter will focus on : How can we investigate why we see different stars on different nights?
SELS/Health lessons
- Stop Asian Hate
