Happy Friday! Weekly Update for week of 01-25-16

·      This is a GREAT link that covers historical content in a “kid friendly” format.  Feel free to check it out!

·      http://www.hulu.com/kids-animated-history-with-pipo

·      We absolutely LOVED reading about Anansi the tricky spider this week!  I would love a class library of them to continue to read from and to use for next year! If you would like to donate to our content library it would be greatly appreciated!

·      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/anansi-and-the-talking-melon-eric-a-kimmel/1103558198?ean=9780823411672

·      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/anansi-and-the-moss-covered-rock-eric-a-kimmel/1100587458?ean=9780823407989

·      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/anansi-and-the-magic-stick-eric-a-kimmel/1100051448?ean=9780823417636

·      We are in need of large Elmer’s glue sticks; they are like gold around here!

·      Math packet: I have sent home directions and a few pages of practice using the making 10 strategy. The packet can be completed optionally within the next week! 
-100th day of school!!!! We will reach 100 days on January 29th, I would like to make a 100th day trail mix.  If you could send to school 100 pieces of a snack we can combine and make a sweet treat for the day.  Please no nuts. 

·  Get lots of rest, vitamins, and stay healthy families!

History

Onto our next tribe, the Incas! A unit assessment will take place towards the end of next week.  A study guide will be reviewed and sent home on Wednesday prior to the test. 

Science

We love space! The students have leaned about the center of our solar system, the sun, we will continue with stars and constellations next week.  The students will have a chance to make their own constellation! 

Math

We are well into adding and onto subtracting within 40.  Using 2 digit numbers and making 10 to help us solve.  We will continue to work on these skills next week, with an assessment to check for understanding at the end of the week.  Here is a video from Khan Academy (AMAZING RESOURCE), please use to help with understanding at home! https://www.khanacademy.org/math/early-math/cc-early-math-add-sub-20/cc-early-math-add-20/v/adding-within-20

Literature

Again, Anansi was so fun! Next week we will focus on main idea and details using short texts. We will also be writing our first 5-sentence paragraph.  Students will be introduced to paragraph structure, sentence starters, and as a class composing our first 5 sentence paragraph!  I look forward to starting the writing process with our almost 2^nd graders!

1A rocks! 

Making Ten Strategy