Wow, only 9 days of school left! We are really enjoying the fun learning activities as we celebrate all that we have learned this year! Click on the calendar to stay “in the know” for each day’s activity: 5L June Calendar.
Pictures Wanted:
For a fun end of the year activity I am looking for your child’s most adorable baby picture, as well as some of your favorite recent photos of your child participating in their favorite activity, birthday, etc. Please email me these photos by Tuesday, June 7th.
A message from our music teacher, Mr. Elston: Hello GAES Families! Mr. Elston here with an announcement regarding music class next week! We will be having classroom talent shows, giving your students an opportunity to showcase their talents for their classmates! I wanted to reach out and let you know about it so that you can help encourage your students to share any performing talents they may have. I will have a keyboard, drum set, and guitar amplifier set up for anyone taking lessons on any of those instruments (or learning at home on their own), anything else they would like to use would have to be brought in by your student. Songs must be school appropriate, and talents being showcased will need to be under 2 minutes! Please remember to consider the size of any instruments/cases that could be an issue on the school bus if they are a bus rider. I am extremely excited to see students share their wonderful abilities with their classmates! Mrs. Lyons’ music resource is on Friday.
A message from the GAES PTA:
Our last event of the year is our Yearbook Signing Party and Spirit Night at Brusters on Staples Mill from 6:30-8:30pm on June 15th. It will be a great time to celebrate the end of school and get yearbook signatures!
You received an email from your child’s teacher about yearbooks that included whether or not you had purchased a yearbook for your child. If you have any questions, you can email gaesyearbook@gmail.com. If you haven’t purchased a yearbook and would like to, here is the link. PURCHASE A YEARBOOK
Tuesday, June 7 is the deadline to buy a yearbook in order to make sure your child’s yearbook is delivered along with their classmates.
All 5th grade students should bring in their yearbooks on Tuesday, June 14 to for yearbook signing from their classmates and other 5th grade students. If your child did not order a yearbook they can bring in an autograph book on this day.
House Unity:
We continue to recognize and reward students daily for following the “Glen Allen 3 – Respect, Responsibility, and Safety.” For the next 5 Wednesday’s we will celebrate House Unity! This Wednesday all students are asked to wear green to honor House Kinyonga, the house of evolution.
Be sure to keep track of all the fun 5th grade activities by bookmarking this calendar: 5L June Calendar.
6/7 Social Studies West Region Test
6/8 House Unity Day – wear green
6/13 GAES Career Day
6/14 GAES Science Shows; 5th grade students bring yearbook for signing
6/15 5th Grade Recognition Ceremony 8:00 (look for the link coming via email next week)
6/15 5th Grade party/dance (during school)
6/15 5th Grade Drive Thru Celebration (A- J 6:00 – 6:30 & K – Z 6:30 – 7:00) & Bruster’s Night & Yearbook Signing (6:30 – 8:00)
6/16 Student ½ day – 5th grade goodbye walk & kickball game – Last day of school!
Math: We will be completing some fun games to help review the concepts we have learned about this year in math, with particular focus on areas that were challenging.
Reading: We are finishing up our novel study of the classic, Island of the Blue Dolphins.
This week students will wrap up their research projects in class and begin to share their presentations!
STEAM – science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics. Education concept
Science: Students will continue to work on their in-class research project presentations. They will also have some fun STEAM projects as to complete during our 5th grade end of the year activities.
Social Studies: In social studies, we will wrap up our unit on the West Region by completing a scrapbook of the West project in class. Students received the West Region Study Guide last Tuesday and it’s important that they complete the study guide to prepare for the test on Tuesday, June 7.