Being an Ally

This week during Morning Meeting and Community Building time we have been talking about what it means to be an ally. Here is some of the work we did this week:

Here are the posters we made in class to help us understand what our students do everyday to be good allies to their classmates. 

Science: Variables Update

Students tested 3 different variables during our swingers experiment. 

They asked these questions:

• What will happen if we change the angle that we swing from?
• What will happen if we change the weight of the pendulum?
• What will happen if we change the length of the swinger?

Ask your child what their results were!

Throughout our experiment we emphasized the idea that you can only change ONE variable at a time. We read about and analyzed other experiments to see if the scientist did a good job of controlling the experiment. As a final assessment we watched a Myth Busters video about protecting sneezes and analyzed how this experiment was conducted. 

US State Practice

Here are some games kids can play to help practice their US state knowledge. We will be working on this all  year.

https://www.abcya.com/games/usa_geography_puzzle_map

https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/us-state-games/all-states/map-the-50-states-2.html

https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/map-quiz-us-states

https://www.ducksters.com/games/united_states_map_game.php

https://www.bls.gov/k12/content/games/geography-quiz/geography-quiz.htm

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/unitedstates.html

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/us-puzzle.html

https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3003

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/USA_Geography/USA_GL_click_1024.html


Practice spelling them.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/states

Try Capital Cities:
https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3063

Red: A Crayon Story

After reading Red: A Crayon Story as a Welcoming Schools activity, we each created our own crayons that shared three things people might not know about us just by looking at us. Many of you were able to see these at Student Success Night! We have now created a Randall Crayon Box - 347 in all!

Link to the story read aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZ2fhuj6kA

Walk Out for Climate Change

On Friday some of our Randall 5th graders participated in the world wide walk out for climate change. Don't worry, it was a supervised student stroll around the Randall School block. Some students made signs beforehand, and many of our students chanted, "Put Earth First!"

Snack

Here is the information from the district about approved snacks for in class snack. We are bring your own snack classrooms, with a severe food allergies in both classes, so peanut and nut tree free items please.

Book Recommendations

I had quite a few parents ask me for book recommendations at conferences.  So I compiled a list of books that I've enjoyed that are available on the school's Sora library. This can be accessed by all students on the Randall Library Portal.  Have fun reading! 

Title	Author
Moon Over Manifest	Vanderpool
Anne of Green Gables	Montgomery
When You Reach Me	Stead (also other titles by this author)
Frindle	Clements (also other titles by this author)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Koningsburg
Three Times Lucky	Turnage (has sequels)
Because of Mr. Terupt	Bugea (has sequels)
The Candymakers	Mass
Brown Girl Dreaming	Woodson (also other titles by this author)
Dead End at Norvelt	Gantos (has sequel)
Fever 1793	Anderson
The Mighty Miss Malone Bud, Not Buddy	Curtis (also other titles by this author)
Kira Kira	Kadohata
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Baum
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Because of Winn-Dixie Tiger Rising	DiCamillo
Spy School	Gibbs (also other titles by this author)
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library	Grabenstein
Liar, Liar Hatchet	Paulsen (also other titles by this author)
Fish in a Tree	Hunt
Who is or was…..	This is a series that has many authors b/ it is a set of biographies.
One Crazy Summer	Williams-Garcia (also other titles by this author) (has sequels)
Counting by 7s	Sloan
The Evolution of Culpernia Tate	Kelly
Bridge to Terabithia	Paterson
Tuck Everlasting	Babbitt
Lily’s Crossing	Giff (also other titles by this author)
Bloomability Ruby Holler	Creech (also other titles by this author)
Sarah, Plain and Tall	MacLachlan (has sequels)
Hoot	Hiaasen (also other titles by this author)
Where the Red Fern Grows	Rawls
Al Capone Does My Shirts	Choldenko (has sequels)
Becoming Naomi Leon	Ryan (also other titles by this author)
The City of Ember	DuPrau (has sequels)
On My Honor	Bauer
The Lemonade War	Davies (has sequels)
Alvin Ho, Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things	Look  (has sequels)
The Name of This Book is Secret	Bosch (has sequels)
Small Steps	Kehret
Inside Out & Back Again	Lai
A Single Shard A Long Walk to Water	Park
Fair Weather The River Between Us A Long Way from Chicago On the Wings of Heroes	Peck (also other titles by this author)
Belle Prater’s Boy	White
A Dog’s Life	Martin (also other titles by this author)
The Scavengers	Perry
So Far from the Bamboo Grove	Watkins
A Night Divided	Nielsen
The Giver	Lowry (has sequels)