School Spirit Day on Monday, October 31! Wear orange and black to show your school spirit!
Our Multiplication Ice Cream Sundae challenge will take place tomorrow, Monday, 10/31. Thank you so much for assisting with the items for this well deserved treat! If you signed up to bring in any items please send them in to school tomorrow with your child (with the exception of ice cream which should be brought in at 12:30). Parents who volunteered to come in to assist should sign in at the office at 12:45 and then head down to room 19.
Thanks to your active participation in the Papa John’s Pizza Delivery Night, the “Lyons’ Den” was the winner for the 5th grade pizza party! I’ll keep you posted on the date for this as soon as I am made aware.
We had such a blast on our field trip to Richmond Walks on Friday! The students were enthralled with the information shared and had fantastic questions and answers to share with the wonderful site tour guides.
School News:
Glen Allen will be collecting canned goods and Thanksgiving basket items November 8 – 18 for our school wide community service projects.
Glen Allen ES Book Fair:
The Book Fair will take place on November 8th from 7:00 – 11:00 and 1:00 – 5:00 and November 9th – 11th from 2:15 – 3:30 in the Library.
Parent/Teacher Conferences:
End of Quarter 1 is this week. We have scheduled conferences for Thursday, November 10th (In person) from 2:45 – 5:45 by appointment only. Look for the sign up on Monday, 10/31. Teachers may also have appointments available on Tuesday. November 8th (Virtual) in between professional development. Since we are a voting precinct we will not be having in person available on Nov. 8th.
10/31 Multiplication Ice Cream Sundae Party at 1:00!
10/31 School Spirit Day – wear orange and black!
11/3 Q1 Math Test
11/4 Vocabulary Quizzes on List #8
11/4 Social Studies Geography Landforms Quiz
11/5 2nd/3rd Basketball Tournament at 3:00, 4th/5th Basketball tournament at 5:30
11/7 HCPS Schools/Offices closed
11/8 Election day – Student Holiday
11/8 – 11/11 GAES Book Fair
11/10 Parent-Teacher Conferences by appointment 2:45 – 5:45
11/9 – 11/18 Henrico Christmas Mother Can food & Hunton Baptist Thanksgiving Baskets Food Drive
Math:
This week we will wrap up our unit on decimals. We will also spend time reviewing material learned over this first nine weeks. Be sure your child is completing daily homework to get practice with these skills. The Quarter One test will be on Thursday, 11/3 and will include 15 questions on all content learned the first 9 weeks.
Reading/Language Arts:This week our focus will conclude our unit on context clues. Our vocabulary unit on Greek & Latin 8 will include the root hydr (water) and the suffixes ance, ence (state, quality) and ness (state, condition).
Social Studies: We will begin learning about geography in social studies.. We will start with the 5 themes of Geography (Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, Place). Students will also be introduced to new vocabulary terms based on landforms. A quiz on these vocabulary terms will be on Friday, 11/4.
Students did a wonderful job on their Henrico Historical Projects! We displayed the projects in a gallery walk and students voted for Anisa and Madison to represent the Lyons Den. Congratulations, girls! This Tuesday, the GAES administration will vote on all of the 5th grade winners and select one representative for our school. Students also worked on a computer program, Tinkercad, to create their individual representations of a Henrico County seal. One student will be selected to have their seal printed on our 3-D printer!