I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving Break! I look forward to hearing all about the wonderful times spent with family and friends tomorrow.
Cultural Arts Tree Lighting/HCMS Music Field Trip:
This Saturday the GAES 5th graders will be participating in the Cultural Arts Tree Lighting event. I can’t wait to hear the wonderful performance that Mr. Elston has been working on with the students!
More fun with music will take place on Thursday, Dec. 14, on the field trip to Hungary Creek Middle School! Students will have the opportunity to hear the HCMS students’ band and chorus perform. Be sure that your child has turned in the permission slip to take part in this fun experience!
WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of great students): If you would like to become a Watch D.O.G, please sign up here.
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.
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
12/1 Among the Hidden Open Note Quiz
12/2 English – Greek & Latin Vocabulary #11
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
12/5 Winter Growth Assessment for Reading
12/7 Winter Growth Assessment for Math
12/14 HCMS Band and Choir Field Trip
12/15 Fall Make Up Picture Day 108662 Glen Allen Elementary School FALL2 394420 Run 1.pdf
12/19 Winter Break Begins
Math:
We will continue with our unit on fractions. This week we’ll work on converting fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions and then ordering them from least to greatest and greatest to least. Mastery of multiplication facts is fundamental to success with this unit on fractions. Please continue to practice multiplication facts with your child if they do not have automaticity with facts up to 12. A quiz on these skills is planned for Friday, 12/2.
Reading/Language Arts:
Drawing conclusions and making inferences will continue to be our focus in reading this week. We’ll also continue with our novel study, Among the HIdden. An open note quiz on chapters 1-5 is scheduled for Thursday, 12/1.Our Greek & Latin #11 focuses on the root chron (time) and the arium, orium (place where) and ment (result).
Science: It’s all about energy in science this week! Students will investigate and compare different types of energy and investigate how energy is transferred and transformed. Students will complete a fun activity where they observe how energy can be converted from one form to another!