Godfrey 25-26: 02/27/26

Calendar

Monday, March 2nd--No School for students--Teacher planning/prep for conferences

--Evening conferences

Tuesday, March 3rd--No school for students/Conference Day

Tuesday, March 3rd--Hamilton Orientation for Family names ending in M-Z

6:00 pm-7:30 pm

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

Wednesday, April 8th--Forward Testing

Thursday, April 9th--Forward Testing

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

Here is a link if your family is interested in looking at what type of questions/format there will be for the Forward standardized testing in April WI Forward Practice Tests

No School next Monday, March 2nd or Tuesday, March 3rd for Teacher Professional Development and Conferences!! Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0B48A5AC2EA4FE3-61895849-2026#/

Oldie, but Goodies

Thinking ahead.....Wednesday, April 8th and Thursday, April 9th are going to be Forward Testing days for the 5th grade. PLEASE try to have your child to school on time, eat a hearty breakfast and avoid making any appointments on those days. Thank you!!
Tuesday, March 3rd--Hamilton Orientation for Family names ending in M-Z 6:00 pm-7:30 pm

Math

This week we continued in Unit 5 on Multiplying and Dividing Fractions. We spent time this week working on story problems involving fractions. In addition, we made and discussed generalizations about multiplying with fractions.
Next week students will take the Bridges Interim Assessment #2.
February Number Corner will focus on finding the area of objects that are measured in fractional parts along with whole numbers. In addition, we will do activities involving converting units in the metric system using milliliters and deciliters.
March Number Corner will focus on finding area of rectangles with dimensions expressed in decimal form. In addition, we will conduct an experiment with pencils where we measure our math pencils every week, collect the data, sort the data on a scatter plot and then analyze what we collected and look for patterns. Finally, we will continue to practice our division skills through some games.

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.
In addition.....your 5th grader will be writing a LOT MORE in this module. Be prepared for possible whining and complaining. It is a lot, but it is important work. Their skills and confidence in writing summaries will jump a significant amount :)
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.

Social Studies--The Mishomis Book

Over the next 3 weeks, our classes will be reading and discussing a book on the Ojibway Nation and learning about the origin story of the seven fires.

SELS/Health lessons

Godfrey 25-26