Upcoming Grading Information

Grading  

On Semester report cards, your student will be graded on end of 5th grade year standards 

using the following indicators:

Ex-exceeding expectations

M-meeting expectations

Dv-developing their skills to meet expectations

E-emerging skill level towards meeting expectations

Since meeting (M) the end of 5th grade standards expectations is our goal for all 5th graders by the END OF THE YEAR, it is likely that most students will be emerging (E) and/or developing (Dv) their skills in meeting those “end of 5th grade expectations” until closer towards 4th quarter. Along those same lines, the exceeding (Ex) grade indicator is one that may be used in rare occasions.

Franklin-Randall Carnival

Goodbye to the Carnival?

The Franklin-Randall Carnival has been a much-loved PTO fundraising event- offering food, raffle prizes, activities, and fun to our students and their families. This year's event may be cancelled due to a lack of volunteer coordinators. If you are open to co-coordinating the Carnival, please email katyhanz@gmail.com ASAP for details and we might be able to keep the event! Thank you.

Bridges: Doubling and Halving

We are learning new strategies for multiplication. This week we really focused on Doubling and Halving. Students worked with partners to solve a problem using the strategy, then explained it using the app Seesaw. Check out their great work!


Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Writing: Animal Informational Writing Godfrey's Class

Our students worked soooooo hard on their research and paragraph writing before break. We worked on reading and annotating, paragraph structures, topic and conclusion sentences, transition words, text features, and more! Here is the great products that came from all of that hard work.

Literacy

For the second half of 2nd quarter we worked on comparing and contrasting characters, setting and events within a story. This is the process we followed in order to do this.

Bridges: Unit 4

Health Office Reminders

Please remember to periodically check your student's head and hair for lice and nits.  It is especially important to check after breaks such as after winter or spring break. These break times are when children are more likely to have had sleepovers or visit relatives.  Students then return to school, and are identified with lice. The school is not usually the cause of the infestation, but rather the location of identification. Listed below are some common questions:

• How do I check my child for nits and lice? See recommendations from the CDC website for diagnosing head lice.
• What do I do if I find nits and lice? If you find lice or nits (the small eggs which lice lay on hair) on your child, please let the Health Office staff know. That way, the staff can check other close contacts of your child at school (such as children who sit close to your child, play often with your child, or with whom they share a locker).  This gives us a better chance to prevent more spreading. We do not share your child's name with other children or families.  
• How do I treat head lice? Call you school health office, call your healthcare provider or go to the CDC website and see treatment for head lice. 
• How do we prevent the spread of head lice? Although nothing can ensure that your child will not be exposed to head lice, there are a few things that can reduce your child’s chances of getting head lice. Your child should:
• Avoid head-to-head (hair to hair) contact during play and other activities at home, school and elsewhere (sports activities, playground, slumber parties, or camp)
• Not share items such as hats, scarves, coats, hair ribbons, combs, brushes or towels.
• Who can I go to in the school for advice about head lice?  School nurses are experts at identifying and treating head lice and we welcome any questions. 

Just a reminder that we no longer routinely send home letters if a student in your child’s classroom has lice.  This is consistent with national recommendations. Sending home letters has been found to not help find more cases of lice, and it can violate a student’s privacy and contribute to bullying. 

Please know that we track cases of lice at school and if there is a trend in a certain classroom, we will then send home letters.  The good news is that lice is not a bigger problem than usual at Franklin or Randall.  The best advice, though, is to periodically check your child, and if you see them itching more than usual or if you have any concerns, let us know & we're happy to check them.

Nurse Amber

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INFLUENZA is here! 

Influenza (also known as "the flu") is going around Wisconsin.  Symptoms can include a quick onset of fever, fatigue, stuffy nose, sore throat, and cough, among other things.  People tend to feel more miserable than with a common cold. Influenza does not cause vomiting (“gastroenteritis” which is sometimes mistakenly called “the stomach flu” causes vomiting).   

The best way to reduce a person’s risk of getting the flu is by getting the FLU VACCINE.  The FLU SHOT CANNOT GIVE YOU THE FLU. It’s NOT TOO LATE TO GET THE FLU VACCINE.   However, the vaccine takes about 2 weeks to work fully.    

The flu is very contagious.  It is spread by droplets in the air or direct contact.  Remind your child to COVER their mouth (with the inside of an elbow) when they cough or sneeze.  WASH HANDS frequently with liquid sanitizer (use the size of a quarter) or soap and water (scrub for at least 20 seconds = two rounds of the “Happy Birthday” song).   Please keep your child home if they have symptoms of the flu.  

I hope you all stay as healthy as possible!  

Nurse Amber