Close Call: An Addition Card Game   From: |http://www.education.com/activity/article/close-call/ 1/7/2015  What You Need: • Deck of playing cards • Paper • Pencil • 2 or more players  What You Do:  1. The dealer shuffles the deck and deals 4 cards to each player, who turns them face up. 2. Players try to rearrange their cards and make number pairs that when added together come close to 100. For example, the cards 5, 1, 4, 9, can be arranged to create two larger numbers: 51 and 49. When added together 51 and 49 equal 100. 3. When everyone's ready, they should share their final numbers.   Whoever is closest to 100 wins a point . The player with the most points at the end wins.   By Ellen Dean and William L. Gaslin, Charles Lund, & Martin M. Gaslin

Hope everyone had a nice break! Just wanted to wish you and your family all the best in 2015! Some of the new things we'll be learning about this term include: Magnets:Science Adding and subtracting larger numbers: Math Personal Narratives: Writing Just wanted to say a special "Thank you" to any students who contributeed on my behalf to our World Vision campaign at Christmas. I loved that gift!  I am so lucky to have such a bunch of great kids!

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Here are all the baggie games we play:Tens Go Fish (Go Fish making pairs of tens)Rainbow Tens ( Use cards, uncover two,fill pairs of tens that you can make, on Rainbow chart) Turnover (War) Each person turns over a card, call out what the two cards add up to)Tens Dice Game(5 dice) Roll as many pairs that make ten in one roll, tally, First to 5 points wins)Concentration (Turn over 2 cards at a time. Try to make pairs of 10, three rows of six, one row of four)Leapfrog ( Use dice, roll and land on 9 first)  

Check out these adventures to get practice using maps:http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive...