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When we return in January, we will spend the next 6 weeks of reviewing the standards and concepts that were taught in the previous 6 Domains.
You may use the CKLA previous domains and Discovery Education to help review those concepts.  Remember, DE has lesson plans, videos, graphic organizers, and any other materials you may need to help teach the lesson.
Not only is DE an awesome tool to use for ELA, but there are materials to help support all of the learning areas.  Please make DE a go to resource to help with planning and learning when we begin the new year.

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In January, continue to finish up Unit 3.  Use the first week of January as a Pausing Point.  This will help to tie up any loose ends before moving on to Unit 4.
Please refer to previous Padlets for supporting resources from Dr. Parker.
Dr. Parker's next scheduled coaching date is 1/12/21.  Please make sure this date is on your calendar!

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I have given the team orange folders with The Snowy Day lesson plan with activities.  Mrs. Baartz has found a virtual copy of the story that reads the book aloud for the students.  Please refer to the link below.

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The Snowy Day Read-aloud, an animated story

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Ezra Jack Keats's classic story, with animation by Jay Boucher and narration and sound by Napoleon Maddox.

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Article on the importance and significance of The Snowy Day in America during the 1960's.

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Article on the importance and significance of The Snowy Day in America during the 1960's.

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One morning many years ago, a little boy in Brooklyn named Peter woke up to an amazing sight: fresh snow.

Peter is the hero of the classic children's book by Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day, which turns 50 this year. Peter has a red snowsuit, a stick just right for knocking snow off of trees, and a snowball in his pocket. And, though this is never mentioned in the text, Peter is African-American.

"It wasn't important. It wasn't the point," Deborah Pope tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. Pope is the executive director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.

"The point is that this is a beautiful book about a child's encounter with snow, and the wonder of it," Pope says. Peter was among the first non-caricatured African-Americans to be featured in a major children's book. But Pope says Keats - who was white - wasn't necessarily trying to make a statement about race when he created Peter.

"He said, well, all the books he had ever illustrated, there had never been a child of color, and they're out there - they should be in the books, too," Pope says. "But was he trying to make a cause book, was he trying to make a point? No."

That approach earned Keats a lot of criticism from civil rights leaders who felt he had not gone far enough. "They were worried," Pope says. "This was a time when the African-American community was fighting for a place at the table, was fighting to be heard ... and in the past, when white authors had written about black characters, it had not done well. It was not good."

But The Snowy Da y became a huge hit. It won the Caldecott Medal, given to outstanding picture books. It was embraced by parents, teachers and children of all colors - and eventually the criticism subsided.

"It was no longer necessary that the book say, 'I am an African-American child going out into the snow today,' " Pope says. "They realized that you don't put a color on a child's experience of the snow."

Keats received thousands of fan letters from children, featuring their own versions of his deceptively simple collage illustrations. Even children in places like decidedly un-snowy Florida could relate to Peter's adventures. But one of the most touching reports came from a teacher whose students had read The Snowy Day.

"There was a teacher [who] wrote in to Ezra, saying, 'The kids in my class, for the first time, are using brown crayons to draw themselves.' " Pope says. "These are African-American children. Before this, they drew themselves with pink crayons. But now, they can see themselves."

Keats' Inspiration

In 1940, Life magazine published a short photo essay focused on a little boy in Liberty County, Ga., who was about to undergo a blood test. Keats was struck by the sweet images of the child, and cut the group of photographs out of the magazine. That little boy was the inspiration for Keats' character Peter, the African-American protagonist of The Snowy Day and six books that followed.

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'The Snowy Day': Breaking Color Barriers, Quietly

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The classic children's book by Ezra Jack Keats turns 50 this year. When it came out in 1962, it was one of the first major kids' books to feature a non-caricatured black protagonist. It became a huge hit, and was embraced by parents, teachers and children of all colors.

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Module 5 will be the opening Module in January.  This module will focus on the Arrow Way, continuation of using Tape Diagrams, etc.
Continue to embed the learning of place value.  As the students progress, they will need to have a firm understanding of place value.

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Place Value: Ones and Tens | Math for Grade 2 | Kids Academy

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Ride along next to Rob as he drives through the country side learning about place value in Numberock's most popular song. In his journey through the pear orchard he'll discover that ten ones make ten, ten tens make one hundred, and ten hundreds make one thousand.

Then he undertakes an epic bike ride - 100 miles! Holy Moly! As his trip nears its end, he discovers that even after the thousand's place, the base ten pattern he has discovered has no end; a truth that draws him into quiet contemplation.

Place Value Lyrics:

Picking pears, I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
that's all that fit inside the ones place value line.
So I picked another pear and made a group of ten.
They fit into a bag perfectly even.
20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90:
I had to keep picking pears - a hunger I had to feed -
so I picked another ten and that led
to one group of one hundred.
(A pear bonked me on the head and I said...)

CHORUS:
Ten ones make ten.
Ten groups of ten are one hundred.
Ten hundreds make one thousand;
the pattern never ends.

I rode my bike one whole mile,
then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and in a little while,
another mile made one group of ten.
A little voice inside my head said,
"Keep going I know you can!"
20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90:
I never knew I had so many miles inside me!
The end of my trip was coming up ahead;
I rode ten more miles and reached one hundred.
(Then that little voice inside my head said...)

After the bell rang at eight o'clock,
I started playing with my base ten blocks.
I stacked up nine and then one more made ten,
and then ten tens equaled one hundred.
200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900:
another hundred wouldn't fit in the hundred's space...
I had to write one group in the thousands place!
(And then I played the air bass.)

Ten groups of one thousand equal ten thousand.
Ten ten thousands make one hundred thousand.
And ten of those make one million,
and the pattern has no end.

Learn More

This song targets TEKS and Common Core place value standards from 1st Grade - 3rd Grade. Look into the relevant standards (1st Grade) here and (2nd Grade) here, or dig deeper into place value and our base-ten systems origins here.

If you are interested in getting ideas on how to plan a robust standards-aligned place value lesson, we recommend checking out Instructure's recommendations for common core standards 1.NBT.2, and 2.NBT.1 . These pages help break down standard language, lay out the grade-appropriate level of rigor for each concept, and offer a variety of suggestions for activities (lesson seeds) that help students achieve their learning targets

To continue browsing Numberock's math video content library, click here. To gain access to Numberock's growing library of premium content, click here.

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NUMBEROCK Place Value Song | 1st-3rd Grade Video

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Ride and sing along with Rob as he drives through the countryside picking pears while learning about place value to 1,000.

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Place Value Video with the house concept

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Place Value Video with the house concept

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Learn about Place Value at Math Playground.com!

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Please share with your families!

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Refresher Video on teaching The Arrow Way

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Refresher Video on teaching The Arrow Way

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Good To Know
Special | 2m 20s

Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Now, he solves for an unknown in any position. This video addresses Common Core Grade 2 Standard Operations & Algebraic Thinking: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.

Aired: 03/01/17

Rating: NR

Problems Playing Video? Report a Problem |

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Good To Know | Tape Diagrams: 2-Digit Addition and Subtraction | Grade 2

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Good To Know Special | 2m 20s Your child continues to use tape diagrams as a visual tool to solve word problems. Now, he solves for an unknown in any position. This video addresses Common Core Grade 2 Standard Operations & Algebraic Thinking: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.

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Whew! 2020 was a year!  Since 2021 is a brand new year, what are some exciting goals do you have set for yourself and your students?  The new year is a perfect time to refocus and set some amazing goals!
Let's make setting new goals and welcoming in a new year exciting for our students!
Below are some ideas: