Calendar
Monday, April 6th--No school for students--Teacher PD day
Tuesday, April 7th--4th Quarter begins
Tuesday, April 7th--Forward Testing
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
- Reminder! Next Monday is a PD Day for teachers. There is no school for students.
- Forward Testing is next week! Please make sure your 5th grader is rested, at school on time and has a hearty breakfast. Thanks!
- Human Growth and Development Dates: April 28th and 30th.
Math
- We are working in Unit 6 of the Bridges Curriculum. This unit will be focused on graphing, geometry and volume. (Yes! Volume again!)
- Next week we will be working on classifying characteristics of triangles and quadrilaterals.
- 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.
- This week we started to prep for our end of the unit opinion essay. 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. If we have time next week between our Forward Testing, students will be continuing this work and hopefully finishing the essay the following week.
- 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.
SELS/Health lessons
- There were no activities for this week.
