Wishing you all a safe, relaxing, and sun-filled Spring Break!

4/1-4/5 Spring Break

4/11 Reading MAPS Assessment

4/12 Greek and Latin Unit 9 Test

4/12 Southwest States/Capitals and Vocabulary Quiz

4/12 GAES Silent Auction at the Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center (adults only)

4/18 Math MAPS Assessment

4/18 Papa John’s Teacher Pizza Delivery Night

4/19 1/2 day for students dismissal at 11:00

4/26 Field Day!

Thank you!

Thank you to all the chaperones that volunteered on our field trip to the Virginia Historical Society. You were such wonderful helpers and the students all loved having you there to share in the learning experience!

GAES Silent Auction April 12

You don’t want to miss out on Glen Allen Elementary’s fantastic Silent Auction on Friday,April 12! You will be absolutely amazed at all of the wonderful items that are up for bidding and at the same time support our fabulous school. Among the items are the wonderful class Jenga set that was made by the “Lyons’ Den” students with the assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan. Shout out to the Morgans for all of your help in making this happen!

What’s Happening in Reading

We will have our Reading MAPS assessment on Thursday, April 11. To ensure that students perform their best please be sure that they get a good night’s rest, eat a healthy breakfast, and arrive to school on time.

We are working hard on fine tuning our comprehension strategies. These include looking back within passages, using context clues, eliminating, stop and jots, and recognition of

synonyms, antonyms, roots, and affixes within words to determine word meanings. This week we will also continue to focus on cause and effect and compare and contrast relationships.

Cubs Read (Glen Allen reading incentive program):  Is your child logging his/her GAR minutes on their calendar? Be sure that they pick up an April log to keep track of the minutes they are reading each day. This program is a fun way to reward the reading that your child does each day at home.

We will be working on Greek and Latin roots unit #9 (phone – sound; er, ir, ist, ian- person who).

Social Studies:

This week we are off to learn about our fourth of five regions of the United States – the Southwest Region! This week we will focus on vocabulary, natural resources, and climate of the region. We will have a quiz on the 4 Southwest states and capitals and the vocabulary terms that is located in the social studies notebook. Continue to visit my Portaportal site for some fun games and songs to help reinforce the 50 states and capitals.  This is located on the bottom of my email and the right hand side of the blog.

Glen Allen will be hosting a Papa John’s Pizza Teacher Delivery Night on April 18! Use the information sheet that came  home with your  child on 3/18!

Important to Note:

• 100% of the tips go directly to GAES!
• 20% of sales comes back to our school!
• Family members and friends outside of the GAES community can order as well.  Delivery will not be an option, but “pick-up” certainly is!
• We will do our best!  Please be flexible with your expectations for precise delivery time.

Which Glen Allen staff member will show up at your door?????