Happy Memorial Day! I hope you enjoyed the extended weekend.
Wow, only 9 more school days to go! While we are all very excited about the upcoming summer break, we still have more to learn, as well as some fun activities planned for this special time of year for our 5th graders. Please be sure to read over weekly updates and emails to stay “in the know!”
5th Grade End of Year Spirit Days
School News
GAES Family Cultural Celebration Night: Thursday, June 1st – 5:30 – 7:30
We are excited to host a night of celebrating and learning about our GAES families’ cultures and traditions with delicious food, performances, games, crafts, and MOST importantly, a night of community! Please consider volunteering for a portion of the vent. Sign-Up Genius
GAES Author Visit: So exciting! GAES 3-5 graders have the wonderful opportunity for an author’s visit from Magaret Peterson Haddix on Tuesday, May 30!! She is the author of the novel study we completed earlier in the year! To support this author visit, you can order signed and/or personalized copies of Falling Out of Time and Running Out of Time by clicking on this link!
5/26 School/Office Closed
5/29 School/Office Closed – Memorial Day!
6/1 5th Grade Market Day! (This is a change due to Career Day & House Party Celebrations)
6/1 Family Cultural Celebrations Night 5:30 – 7:00
6/2 Career Day
6/6 Flying Squirrels Night!
6/7 Virginia Wildlife Science Program at GAES
6/8 5th Grade Awards Program 8:00
6/9 5th Grade vs. Staff Kickball Game; Last day of School! Dismissal begins at 11:00
Math: The students did a great job measuring the volume and creating various animals for our Volume Zoo project! Thank you for sending in boxes to assist with this. They will be finishing up their animal and then create a story about their animal and their habitat this week. Be sure to ask them all about it.
Reading/English: We will continue to read our class novel, Restart and practice the reading strategies we have learned this year. Students will present projects they created to the class on a topic of their choice in the past couple weeks.
We will also be completing some fun activities incorporating our memories of 5th grade!
Science: We’ll be completing some STEAM activities during the next two weeks demonstrating all that we have learned in science this year. Our Volume Zoo project will also cross over into our science unit as we dive into the habitats of the various animals created.
Social Studies: We will finish an in-class project to help reinforce what we have learned about the West Region. We will also begin to learn about the 4 states that make up the Southwest Region. Our 5th grade states and capitals competitions start this week! Go Lyons’ Den!!