Week of April 10

 Calendar

Thursday, April 16th--WI Film Festival Field Trip

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 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

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Oldie, but Goodies

• Human Growth and Development Dates

                       April 28th and 30th, and May 5

Math

• We are working in Unit 6 of the Bridges Curriculum. This unit will be focused on graphing, geometry and volume. (Yes! Volume again!)  Due to Forward Testing, we only had 2 math lessons this week. 
• Next week we will be shifting our focus more towards finding the volume of rectangular prisms and surface area.  
• April Number Corner will focus on volume, decimals and fraction relationships and story problems involving each of these concepts. 

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. 
• In this unit we focusing on thinking about factors that helped Jackie Robinson becoming a leader for social change. 
• We will continue to work on speaking and writing about what we read.  
• Students will be writing about which factor they think was the most important factor that helped Jackie Robinson break the color barrier in the MLB.  
• This week we didn't have much time to work on our essays due to Forward Testing.  Next week, students will resume this work and complete the essay. 
• 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?

SELS/Health lessons

• Exploring Our Feelings About Race
• HGD letters were sent out