Hello everyone. I hope you had a nice weekend and are warming up from this winter blast that arrived last night. This week is spirit week!

Today-Sports Day

Tuesday-Twin Day

Wednesday-Crazy Hair Day

Thursday – Pajama Day (My favorite!)

Friday- Nowlin School Spirit day( wear Nowlin shirts, hoodies or blue and white clothing)

Valentines grams are due back to the classroom teacher no later than this Wednesday.

A permission slip will be coming home for 3rd and 4th to go see the orchestra play at the Ford Performing Arts Center. There is no cost. These are due back by Friday.

This week: We are focusing on the /el/ chunk- channel pixel chapel flannel panel tunnel vessel snorkel travel unravel

Content words: divisor, dividend, quotient, remainder, division

Math- 3rd- We are continuing to work on modeling fractions and will begin looking at equivalent fractions.

4th- We are going to be creating numbers utilizing place value clues and then solving problems with them. These multi-step problems will begin to prepare them for the rigor expected on future testing.

Science-We will be constructing models to show plate tectonics and how they move to cause landforms and earthquakes.

3rd-Mrs. Parana

Social Studies- We are still learning about the branches of government and why we have the government divided this way.

Writing-We are going to begin reading a non-fiction book about the worst blizzard in US history and the students will be writing a journal from the point of view of a someone going through the blizzard. We are going to be focusing on the voice they use to reflect the time period.

Reading- Our biggest focus for the next few week is pulling details directly from a text to support a reading strategy. Our current strategy is main idea and they need to be able to quote from the text to tell me how they arrived at the main idea.

Report cards came home Friday along with NWEA. If you have questions or would like to go over any of it, please let me know.

Have a great week!