Helloooo snow!

Due to last week's snow days, the spelling quiz will be postponed until Friday, February 11th. Students began creating their lists on Friday, copies will be home by Tuesday, February 1st. Thank you for your flexibility!

Monday,January 31st will be our field trip to the ESSL! This is such a wonderful field trip, the teachers at this site are so knowledgable and thorough. They combine the right amount of education and entertainment to get the students super-engaged in their learning. We will be eating lunch at the ESSL, so please be sure your son/daughter packs a disposable lunch (unless you planned to have him/her purchase a bagged lunch from the cafeteria before we leave). Super excited!

This week in math we will be continuing our unit on data collection - reviewing and extending knowledge of various graphs and plotting systems.

Last week in writing, students began creating "Who am I?" riddles. The primary purpose of this writing exercise is to encourage students to develop their descriptive writing skills. I hope to have these finalized by the end of the week. Our next writing project will be persuasive writing! Students will have the opportunity to formulate and defend their opinions on relevant topics! Students will be reading two different articles from the KidsPost and responding to these articles in writing. One of the best ways for students to make the connection between speaking and writing is to provide them with the opportunity to discuss their opinion. Students will have this opportunity to discuss their opinions during class, but I highly encourage you to discuss them at home as well! Below are the links for the articles the students will be reading. Please read them together and discuss at home - enjoy!!

Thank you so much for your continued support and communication - have a great week!

:) KM

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