We had so much fun at the Literacy and STEAM Night on Thursday! It was wonderful to see so many students and parents enjoying the various activities geared around the wonderful Questioneers series of books!
Music Mondays: We are so excited to begin Music Mondays in March!!! We will be showcasing Cub Talent in the foyer as students arrive from 7:10 – 7:40. If you or your child plays an instrument and want to share your talents with our Cubs as they arrive please sign up below. Music Monday Sign Up Form We will email you a Sign Up genius to select specific dates once we gather Cubs’ interests.
Kids Heart Challenge – February 28:
The Kids Heart Challenge event will be held on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, after school from 2:30- 3:30 for students who have registered and who submitted their permission slips last Friday.
PTA News:
GAES PTA Tropical Getaway School Dance:
Date: Thursday, March 16th, 2023
Time: 6 – 7:30 pm
Tickets: $12.50 each, tickets are limited and sold on first come, first serve basis. Here’s the link to buy tickets.
All students must have a chaperone and everyone attending must have a Ticket. One chaperone may bring more than one student but must be responsible for all of the students during the entire dance.
For questions or to volunteer to help decorate or volunteer at the dance: email Erin Dowdy erincdowdy@gmail.com
Yearbook Pictures: If you have pictures you’d like to share for the yearbook please download the free Herff Jones App, ESHARE. Or go to HJESHARE.COM Enter our school’s code: GAESCUBS We would love any pictures from field trips, spirit days, students wearing their house shirts or anything you’d like to share with us!
Catch-A-Star Program and Award: Falling under the auspices of Arts-in-Education, Catch-a-Star encourages students to visit cultural festivals, museums, live performances, and galleries. Each time they do, they can visit our Catch-a-Star Form and leave a response with their impressions of the visit. We tally up the comments and all participants are recognized at the end of the school year—with special prizes for the top “star-catchers”! For more information, please contact Whitney Harpold at harpolme@gmail.com.
2/28 Social Studies Northeast Region Test (study guide due today)
2/28 Kids Heart Challenge
3/3 Vocabulary & Spelling Quizzes
3/7 Science Light Test
3/10 Schools closed for Wellness Day
3/13 5th Grade Survey
3/15 VDOE Integrated Reading and Writing Field Test
3/20-3/24 Local Writing Assessment for 5th Grade
3/27 Spring Pictures – Class and Individual
3/31 Half Day
Math: This week we will begin a unit on numerical, geometric, growing, shrinking, and repeating patterns. Students will learn to identify, describe, create, express, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers and tables.
Reading: This week students will complete the final step of their research project on important African Americans. They will take the information they have learned to plan and then write an essay on their selected individual. Students will have the opportunity to share their essays with the class on March 1.
Our weekly Vocabulary List #4 focuses on Fame and Fortune words.
Social Studies: We will wrap up our unit on the Northeast Region this week. Students have been working an in-class research project on a Northeast state of their choice. This project is a great way to reinforce all that we have learned about the Northeast Region and will assist with the. test on Tuesday, 2/28. Students should be completing the Northeast Region Study Guide that was distributed last Wednesday to prepare for the test. The study guide is due on Tuesday, 2/28. Completion of the study guide is an expectation and will count towards the social studies homework grade. Be sure to review the study guide, as well as notes in the social studies notebook, in preparation for the test.
Science: The students are amazed at all that we are learning about light! Did you know that if you were able to travel as fast as light you could travel around the Earth 7.5 times every second?! This week we will have fun with prisms and learn about the visible and electromagnetic light spectrum. A test on Light Energy is scheduled for Tuesday, March 7.