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It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just a few days away! We all have so much to be thankful for. Sending wishes to you and your family for a very safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday! A reminder that school will be closed November 23 – 25.
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Don’t forget to bring in and be ready to share the Tom/Tammy Turkey Writing Project tomorrow, Monday, November 21. I can’t wait to see the great ideas the students come up with!
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Thank you for your generous donations of food items to support the Henrico Christmas Mother & Hunton Baptist Thanksgiving Basket. Our school collected over 6.000 items and House Omuhle was the winner for most items donated.
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WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of great students): If you would like to become a Watch D.O.G, please sign up here.
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GAES Night at VCU Basketball – December 17, 4pm: Kick off winter break at the Siegel Center. If you love basketball or love to cheer on the Rams, join your fellow GAES cubs for the game. We have a block of discounted tickets ($20 each – normally $25) and GAES PTA gets $10 back from each ticket sold. Our cubs will get to high five the players as they run onto the court for tip off. Click here to buy tickets.
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Pizza with a Purpose – GAES Spirit Night December 5th 11am-10pm: Need to do some holiday shopping? Grab dinner while you’re out on December 5th at California Pizza Kitchen, mention Glen Allen Elementary when you order and support GAES PTA. Not fighting the crowds? GAES gets 20% of online orders from 11am-10pm too when you enter BACK20% at checkout. Glen Allen Elementary 12.5.pdf
11/21 Tom/Tammy Project Due
11/21 Gifted Referral Window Closes
11/22 Social Studies Geography Test
11/23 – 11/25 Thanksgiving Holiday/Schools Closed
12/1 Among the Hidden Quiz
12/2 Reading – Making Inferences/Drawing Conclusions Quiz
12/2 Math Ordering Fractions and Decimals Quiz
12/3 5th grade performance at Glen Allen Cultural Arts Tree Lighting Event
12/5 PTA Spirit Night: California Pizza Kitchen 11AM – 10:00PM
12/15 Fall Make Up Picture Day 108662 Glen Allen Elementary School FALL2 394420 Run 1.pdf
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Math:
We will continue with our unit on fractions while also completing some fun Thanksgiving math review activities. Please continue to reinforce your child’s multiplication and division facts as this is so important to their success with fractions and decimals.
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Reading/Language Arts:
We will use a variety of comprehension strategies as we complete some Thanksgiving centers. We will take a break from our Greek and Latin vocabulary due to the short week. Our novel study, Among the HIdden, continues this week. The students are loving this captivating page turner!
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Social Studies: In social studies we will wrap up our unit on geography with a test on Tuesday, 11/22. Students are really enjoying working on the RAFT projects! These will help to reinforce the geography vocabulary terms, as well as the 5 themes of geography.