YEARBOOKS are on sale!!! Get yours for $20.00 (cash or check made out to GES!) Being on the yearbook committee has been such a privilege and I (Mrs. Routson) am more than pleased at how they turned out! Please consider purchasing one! We have had a great time autographing each other’s this week 
Show some school spirit!
Our supplies are running LOW – if you are able we are in desperate need of glue sticks and pencils to finish out the remainder of the year! Thank you!!!
Mrs. Webb will be teaching Monday-Wednesday and Mrs. Routson will be teaching Thursday-Friday. Please email us both with questions/concerns.
We will continue to reinforce and recognize students who follow “The 7 Habits of Happy Kids”.
1) Be Proactive 2) Begin with the End in Mind 3) Put First Things First 4) Think Win-Win 5) Seek First to Understand and Then to Be Understood 6) Synergize 7) Sharpen the Saw Also, please encourage your child to strive for a blue, purple or PINK day! All students who achieve PINK will get a prize on Fridays! We can still use donations for our prize box! Thanks to those who have sent some in!
*Mrs. Routson/Mrs. Webb’s Reading Group: We will be reading chapter 3 this week of “Frog and Toad Together” and doing comprehension activities with the story. We will be doing Earth Day activities the rest of our L.A. block including: making an Earth Day Book, making a Reduce, Reuse, Recycle mobile, researching Earthworms, making an Earthworm craft with a chart about them, writing about Earthworms, researching the Earth and Earthworms, and reading stories related to Earth Day! We will have a cold read practice on Thursday. It’s going to be a fun week!
Grammar – We will review adjectives and the Adjective Quiz will be Thursday, April 25th.
Fundations – We will review on Monday and Test Unit 6 on Tuesday! Please check the spiral notebook on Monday night for materials covered (very similar to the homework)!
Math: We will continue our unit on Shapes this week. We will introduce solid figures (3-dimensional shapes) and relate them to plane shapes (2-dimensional). Vocabulary will be especially important during this unit, so please review these terms with your child nightly. Terms to know this week: Solid Figures (3D shapes or shapes with depth) base (the bottom flat surface of a solid object), edge (the line where 2 faces meet), face (flat surface that makes up a solid figure), sphere (solid figure that is curved with no face, base, or vertices), cylinder (solid figure with 2 flat circular faces, 0 edges, 0 vertices) cube (solid figure with 6 flat square faces, 8 vertices, 12 edges), cone (solid shape with 1 flat round face, 0 edges, 1 vertex) rectangular prism (solid figure with 6 flat rectangular faces, 8 vertices, 12 edges) pyramid (solid figure with 1 square base and 4 triangular faces – 5 faces in all, 5 vertices, 8 edges). Homework will be assigned Monday – Thursday this week. PLEASE REVIEW THESE TERMS WITH YOUR CHILD!
Science/SS: Our students will continue to visit Ms. Gooding! Please visit her blogs and check agendas for her news. http://blogs.glnd.k12.va.us/agooding/
Our Encore Schedule: Monday – Music, Tuesday – Art, Wednesday – P.E., Thursday – Library, Friday – P.E.
Please visit www.portaportal.com/mowebb to access some online games!
Mark your calendars!!!:
April 25 – PTA meeting and Talent Show! 6:00! Can’t wait to see our students perform!
April 26 – Early Dismissal of 1:00 p.m.
May 2 – Dairy Day at GES!
May 6 – Teacher Appreciation Week
May 8 – PALS testing begins
May 20 – MP Testing begins
May 22 – 2nd Grade Economics Fair
May 27 – School closed for Memorial Day
May 28 – Field Day
May 29 – Honor Roll Assembly
May 30 – End of Year Picnic – be on the lookout for more information!
May 31 – Last day of 2nd grade!!!