Welcome back and welcome to the fourth and final nine weeks of 5th grade! We hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break relaxing with family and friends and that students are ready to close out the school year strong! The coming weeks will be so important as we continue to learn new material, as well as review previously learned concepts. Please continue to emphasize the importance of focus on instruction, positive classroom behavior, completion of daily homework assignments, and preparation for quizzes, tests, and projects.
Field Day! Get ready for some fun on Friday, April 14, 2023, 8:00 – 1:50 (grades k-2 – 8:00-10:40, Lunch 10:40-11:10, grades 3-5 11:10-1:50)
Students should wear their house colors, bring a water bottle, sunscreen, and a hat.
Field day is for approved parent volunteers, staff and students this year. We need around 50 volunteers. In order to follow all safety processes and effectively monitor who is on our campus, we will only be having approved volunteers for the event during the school day. No visitors or lunch guests on this day. Students are able to bring their lunch or purchase from the cafeteria. You can sign up to volunteer by completing the process below and then once you are approved you can sign up at (https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0F4FAAAB2FA75-field). Volunteers will work the same station all day. There will be a virtual field day meeting on Monday, April 10th at 3:30. You can click my gym link to logon (Mrs. Lucas’s Gym Link).
Looking for a fun way to review math, science or reading content? Students have enjoyed using SOL Pass in class and they can access it at home too! Our school password is GAESCUBS.
PTA News:
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.
4/10 Welcome Back!
4/11 Math Circles Test
4/13 Social Studies West Region States & Capitals Quiz
4/14 English Vocabulary Quizzes & Field Day!
4/17 Field Day Rain Date
4/20 Primetime RVA Competition
4/21 No School – Eid al-Fatr
4/27 Reading SOL
4/28 Makeup Reading SOL
Math: We will wrap up our unit on circles this week with a test on Tuesday, 4/11. We will then move into our geometry unit on transformations. Students will identify congruent figures and explain why they are congruent. We will also transform geometric figures by using mirrors, paper folding, and/or tracing to translate, rotate, and/or reflect.
Reading/English: We will continue learning about Figurative Language language. We will look for figurative language in a variety of songs and poems and discuss the author’s purpose for using different forms of figurative language. Since April is poetry month, students will begin composing their own poetry in the coming weeks!
Vocabulary: Our weekly Vocabulary List #8 focuses on “Nifty Not Words.”We will continue with our small group novels, as well as our whole group read aloud of Restart.
Science: In Science, we will continue with our unit on the Earth. We will review fossils and the movements of tectonic plates and then look at identifying types of rocks and their examples. We will also look into the characteristics of each rock and start looking at the rock cycle! A test on this unit is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18. Students will be provided with an opportunity to complete an optional project on the layers of the Earth that will count as a project grade. Prior to Spring Break, 7 students indicated that they would like to complete this optional project. They will receive detailed instructions this week.
Social Studies: We’re off to the West Region in social studies this week! We will focus on locating and describing the West Region and identifying the states and capitals that make up the West Region. A quiz on the 12 states and capitals of the West Region is scheduled for Thursday, 4/13.