Good afternoon!

We started the week with snow, followed by a snow day and now some warmer weather.  You just have to love winter in New England.   We continue to learn about fractions in math and this unit will last several weeks.   The fraction poster will be due at the beginning of March, stay tuned for more specific dates. Our earth science unit was put on hold at the beginning of the week but we are back at it, learning about erosion and weathering. When the earth science unit is finished, we will continue our travels around the northeast.  Saving Winslow continues to be popular with students and Sharon Creech, the author, replied to one of our tweets.  Check it out.  We are writing essays about dogs, rap poems and focusing on the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning format in content area writing. We read and listen to picture books by African American authors and illustrators all year long, but we are focusing more specifically on these books in February  to celebrate Black History month and World Read Aloud Day which was this past Wednesday.  

Have a great weekend!  One more week until vacation!  Bonus points if you know the movie reference in Mrs. A’s Bitmoji!