Welcome back and welcome to the fourth and final nine weeks of 5th grade! We hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break relaxing with family and friends and that students are ready to close out the school year strong! The coming weeks will be so important as we continue to learn new material, as well as review previously learned concepts. Please continue to emphasize the importance of focus on instruction, positive classroom behavior, completion of daily homework assignments, and preparation for quizzes, tests, and projects.
We had a blast celebrating our students who worked so hard on their multiplication fact knowledge the Friday before break with the ice cream sundae party! Continue to practice these facts as this will be the key to success in our math units coming up, as well as our review units.
We continue to recognize and reward students daily for following the “Glen Allen 3 – Respect, Responsibility, and Safety.” The 3rd nine week house winner will be announced this week and will get to participate in the Luau Party on April 15.
Science Fair: REGISTER by April 22 at: https://forms.gle/6YgV4dmAywtcgoMx7
When: May 10, 2022 6:30 – 7:30pm
Where: Glen Allen Elementary School
Who: Open to all KG – 5th grade students
Why: Celebrating curiosity and creativity to inspire a love of science!
Resources: Science Fair 2022 Flyer.docx SF Board Layout.pdf
5thGrade 22 SavetheDateandProjectIdeas.docx
4/11 PTA Meeting 7:00
4/14 Math Test – Transformations, Combinations, Subdividing
4/15 Greek & Latin Vocabulary Tests List #10
4/15 Science Ecosystem Quiz
4/18 Student Holiday/Staff professional development, Kindergarten Online Registration Opens
4/19 Midwest Region Study Guide due
4/20 Social Studies Midwest Region Test
4/22 GAES Science Fair Deadline
4/23 Hunton Baptist Church community food drive
4/27 Field Day event for students (KG – 2nd AM, 3rd – 5th PM)
5/10 GAES Science Fair
Math: This week in math the focus will be on combining and subdividing shapes. We will also review transformations: rotations (turns), reflections (flips), and translations (slides). A test on these skills is scheduled for Thursday, April 14.
Reading: April is Poetry Month! This week we will enjoy reading and recognizing different forms of poetry. Students will also have the opportunity to compose some of their own poems. Be sure to ask them to share these with you!
This week our Greek & Latin #10 will focus on the root bio (life) and the suffixes ology, ologist (study of, person who studies) and phobia, phobe (fear, someone who fears).
Science: I was so impressed with the students’ Earth projects! I loved the creativity and demonstration of what they learned through both the visual and writing. This week we will be reviewing a fourth grade unit on ecosystems. A quiz on ecosystems will be on Friday, April 15.
Social Studies: We will wrap up our study of the Midwest Region this week. Students will work on an in school project to help review what they have learned about this region. To prepare for the test on this unit a study guide (Midwest Study Guide) will be given out for students to complete. The study guide will be due on Tuesday, April 19 and the test on the Midwest Region will be on Wednesday, April 20.