PE Testing Info: https://henrico.schoology.com/course/2990968153/materials Next week Mrs. Lucas will review and then the 5th grade PE test will take place the first week in May.

Be sure to return middle school course recommendation forms either in person or via email to Mrs. Sitter (jlsitter@henrico.k12.va.us).

Summer Academy

Summer Academy is open to ALL students.  Registration begins April 12. Information was sent home on March 30th via school messenger, posted to our school website, with in –person students, and available at Instructional Resource Material pick up.  See https://henricoschools.us/summer-academy/ for more information!

We had a great week!  We enjoyed celebrating library month and Earth Day with some fun activities.  This week we will continue our celebration of library month and poetry month.  Be sure to click on this link (Celebrate Library Month Activities) to join in the fun school activities planned for this week!

Dates to Remember:

4/27 – Electricity Quiz

4/29 – Area, Perimeter, and Volume Test

4/30 – Word Trek Lesson 27 Quizzes

5/5 – Southwest Region Test

5/6 – Solar System Quiz

5/13 –  Student Holiday

MATH

We will wrap up our unit on area, perimeter, and volume of squares, rectangles, and triangles this week.   A test on this material will be on Thursday, April 29th.  Be sure to refer to the student resource folder and the portaportal sites to review these concepts.  Your student should also have notes in their notebooks.   We will begin learning about the various units of measurement utilizing the metric system.

READING

April is Poetry Month.  To celebrate we have been learning about and writing various forms of poetry.  Be sure to find your favorite poem to share on Thursday, for the chance to win a prize from the GAES library on Poetry in your Pocket Day.  Vocabulary A-Z is a great resource to prepare for the spelling and vocabulary quizzes.  Please encourage your student to use this resource when studying.  We have started our new novel study, The Phantom Tollbooth.  This book is filled with so much word play!  It is a fun story of a boy who travels to Lands Beyond.  It’s a fun book to read!  We will review inferencing and continue with poetry comprehension.

SCIENCE

We will wrap up our unit on electricity with a quiz on Tuesday, April 27th.  Students should use the notes and study guides in the student resources folder, as well as the fun review sites on the portaportal to prepare for the quiz.   Your student should also have notes in their notebook.  Next, we will explore the solar system.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We will complete our study of the Southwest Region in social studies this week.  Students will be provided a study guide to complete that will help them to prepare for the test.  The completed study guide will be due on May 4th and the test will be on May 5th.

PE Testing Info: https://henrico.schoology.com/course/2990968153/materials

Be sure to return middle school course recommendation forms either in person or via email to Mrs. Sitter (jlsitter@henrico.k12.va.us).

Summer Academy

Summer Academy is open to ALL students. Registration begins April 12. Information was sent home on March 30th via school messenger, posted to our school website, with in –person students, and available at Instructional Resource Material pick up. See https://henricoschools.us/summer-academy/ for more information!

Next week we will be celebrating Library Month! Click on this link (Celebrate Library Month Activities) to join in the fun!

I hope you all had a relaxing, fun-filled Spring Break!  I enjoyed hearing about all of the adventures that students had on Monday!

It’s difficult to believe, but we are in the final stretch, the last nine weeks of fifth grade!  While summer is beckoning, we still have lots of important material to cover before we are ready to send our students off to summer and middle school.  Please continue to impress upon your child the importance of completing classwork assignments and homework as well as staying focused and attentive during instruction.

Next Wednesday, the library will be hosting two virtual sessions on embryology – a.k.a.- Mrs. Harris is hatching chick eggs again this year.  During this optional virtual session, Mrs. Carter Humphreys from the Virginia Cooperative Extension/Henrico 4-H liaison will lead these fun and informative sessions.  Mrs. Humphreys is a former educator and a great public speaker.

K-2 students can join the Library Teams link on Wednesday April 21 at 1pm

3-5 students can join the Library Teams link (Mrs. Harris’ Teams Link)  Wednesday April 21st at 1:40

Dates to Remember:

4/19 – Energy, Force, and Motion Quiz

4/20 – Southwest Region States and Capitals Quiz

4/23 – Word Trek Lesson 26 Quizzes

4/27 – Electricity Quiz

4/29 – Math Area, Perimeter, and Volume Test

MATH

We will be learning about area, perimeter, and volume of squares, rectangles, and triangles this week.  Your student should have notes in their notebook for these.  Be sure to also refer to the student resource folder and the portaportal sites to review these concepts.  A test on this material will be on Thursday, April 29th.

LANGUAGE ARTS

We finished Esperanza Rising!  It is such a beautifully written book!  There will be an open book test on Tuesday.  If you are a virtual student please have this book as well as Running Out of Time, if you haven’t turned it in yet, in a plastic bag on your porch ready for me or another classmate to pick up on Wednesday afternoon.  Our next novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, will be delivered to our virtual students on Wednesday as well.  We will be reviewing point of view and other skills as we prepared for end of the year testing.  We will also continue writing poetry with a diamante, haiku, and limerick.

SCIENCE

We will wrap up our unit on energy, force, and motion in science this week.  A quiz on these topics is scheduled for Monday, April 19th.  Your student should have notes in their notebook.  Be sure to alse utilize the notes and study guides in the student resources folder, as well as the fun review sites on portaportal to prepare for the quiz.  We will then begin learning all about static electricity, circuits, and current electricity.

SOCIAL STUDIES

The Southwest Region will continue to be our focus in Social Studies.  We will be learning all about the climate, natural resources, significant landmarks, and economic opportunities of the region.  A quiz on the map location of the four Southwest states and the capital of each state will be on Tuesday, April 20th.  The quiz will also incorporate states and capitals from previous regions studied (Southeast, Northeast, and Midwest) so students should review the states and capitals of those regions as well.  The “Tour the States” song on the portaportal site is a great way to do this!

Yearbook orders have been extended!

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Don’t forget to send your school activity, learning adventures, or spirit day photos to gaesyearbook@gmail.com. If you are not participating in the Strawbridge Fall picture days, please send a headshot photo with your student name, teacher, and grade this week!

We had a fantastic week in fifth grade! Students were busy as they demonstrated what they had learned as we wrapped up many units at the close of the third quarter. We really enjoyed our special visit from Camille Schrier, Miss America 2020 on Friday! She demonstrated some phenomenal experiments and explained how she developed and cultivated a love for science. It was the perfect way to end the week and the day before Spring Break.

We wish you all a safe, happy, and relaxing Spring Break! We look forward to seeing everyone on April 12 ready to begin the fourth and final quarter of fifth grade.

Dates to Remember:

4/5 – 4/9 Spring Break

4/12 –  PTA Spirit Night at Jimmy Johns

4/15 –  Transformations Test

4/16 – Word Trek Lesson 25 Quizzes

4/19 – Force and Motion Quiz

4/20 – Southwest Region States and Capitals Quiz

MATH

We will continue to learn about transformations and congruency with geometric figures this week.  Then we will review geometric shape vocabulary and move into area and perimeter of shapes at the end of the week.  There will be a test on transformation on Thursday, April 15.

LANGUAGE ARTS

This week we will begin to review previously taught skills of recognizing the main idea and supporting details within a text as well as point of view and fact and opinion.  The students will also begin a group project called Appetizing Adjective Menu.  The students will create a restaurant menu using lots of adjectives to describe their dishes.  This is such a fun project!  We will have Word Trek this week.  Please encourage your student to go on Vocabulary A-Z for practice with their words.  April is Poetry Month!  The students will have the opportunity to utilize what they have learned about figurative language in creating a variety of different forms of poetry in the coming weeks.

SCIENCE

We are moving into force and motion in science this week.  Students will learn about kinetic and potential energy and understand how friction, force, speed, and position affect energy.  A quiz on force and motion is scheduled for Monday, April 19th.  The students will have notes in their notebooks and should also be using the notes and study guides in the student resources folder as well as the review sites on portaportal to prepare for the quiz.

SOCIAL STUDIES

It’s all about the Southwest Region in Social Studies this week.  We will learn the location of the four states that make up this region and the capital of each state.  Then we will move into the climate, natural resources, significant landmarks and economic opportunities of this region.  A quiz on the map location of the states and the states matched with their capitals will be on Tuesday, April 20th.