Friday is the end of the third nine weeks! Wow! It’s amazing how fast this year is going by! Friday is also a half day for students.
Field Trip
For our spring field trip, we will be taking the class to the Virginia Historical Society! The students will be learning more about Virginia and Henrico history by going on a tour and scavenger hunt with their class. This field trip is free! Students need to wear comfortable shoes and pack a lunch for this trip.
PE activity logs
All 5th grade classes have their 2nd activity log in PE. They need to record intensity levels 3 and 4 only. The sheet is due Monday, March 25th.
Youth Art Month Spirit Week is this week!
Celebrate the importance of art education for all children and support school art programs by wearing different color families each day next week.
Monday – Primary Colors (Red, Yellow and Blue)
The group of colors from which all other colors can be made
Tuesday – Secondary Colors (Green, Purple and Orange)
Colors that result from the mixing of two primary colors
Wednesday – Complementary Colors (Purple/yellow, Blue/Orange, Red/Green) Complementary colors are two colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel. Complementary colors can make each other appear brighter.
Thursday – Warm or Cool Colors
Warm colors — such as red, yellow, and orange; evoke warmth because they remind us of things like the sun or fire.Cool colors — such as blue, green, and purple; evoke a cool feeling because they remind us of things like wateror grass.
Friday – RAINBOW DAY – A way to remember the order of the rainbow, is to use the acronym ROY G. BV which stands for Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet
Papa John’s teacher delivery night 4/12-
-100% of the tips go directly to GAES!
-20% of sales comes back to our school!
-Family members and friends outside of the GAES community can order as well. Delivery will not be an option, but “pick-up” certainly is!
-We will do our best! Please be flexible with your expectations for precise delivery time.
Which Glen Allen staff member will show up at your door?????
MATH
Monday, March 25th is the circles test. Your student has lots of notes in their notebooks and a study guide. They can also use the resources on this blog to help prepare for this test. This week we will work with area, perimeter, and volume. The students already know how to find the area and perimeter of quadrilaterals and triangles so the new focus is volume. There will be a test on this information on Monday, April 15th. We will also work with a quadrant coordinate plane this week. The students will do fun pictures and a map activity using positive and negative coordinates. Weekly Math (blue Sunshine Math) is due on Thursday, March 28th.
LANGUAGE ARTS
There is no Word Trek this week due to our poetry Socratic Seminar that Mrs. Nevetral is presenting. The students have received the poems they will be discussing and the assignment they need to complete in order to be prepared. Completion of this assignment by Wednesday morning is required to participate in the seminar. This is going to be fun! The students are doing a fantastic job on their Book Clubs. They have been given a due date of the week we get back from Spring Break. If your student is behind they may be completing some of it from home. They can use their Google drive to work with their teammates. We will be focused on text structures, analyzing poetry, comprehending nonfiction using stop and jot note taking strategies, figurative language, and summarizing this week.
SCIENCE
We will continue with sound this week. The test for our Sound unit is Thursday, March 28th. The students have notes and a study guide to help prepare for this test. The students received paperwork for their Sound Project last week. This project is due on Friday, April 12th. Please let me know if you have any questions. This week we will also begin our Light Unit (5.3). The students will discover how light travels, the definitions of translucent, opaque, and transparent, as well as the difference between concave and convex. This is a super interesting unit!
SOCIAL STUDIES
The students are working hard on their Midwest commercials. I can’t wait to see the final projects. Mr. C. is coming on Thursday, April 11th to help us with green screens, filming, and editing. This is going to be amazing! The test for the Midwest will be given on Tuesday, March 26th. The students have lots of notes and a study guide to use while preparing for this test. Our next region is the Southwest!
IMPORTANT DATES
3/25 – Circles Test
3/25 – Activity Log due to Mrs. Lucas
3/26 – Midwest Region Test
3/28 – Sound and Light Test
3/28 – Virginia Historical Society Field Trip
3/29 – End of the third nine weeks
3/29 – Half day for students
4/1 – Spring Break
4/11 – Reading MAPS Test
4/12 – Sound Project due
4/12 – PTA Silent Auction
4/18 – Math MAPS Test
4/18 – Papa John’s Night
4/19 – Half day for students
4/26 – Field Day