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March Schedule. TOLERANCE. 3/1. Slide 1 of 3. Word of the Month TOLERANCE means respecting the individual differences, views, and beliefs of other people. . TOLERANCE. 3/1. Slide 2 of 3 . Word of the Week Cooperation means working together for a common purpose. .
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TOLERANCE 3/1 Slide 1 of 3 Word of the Month TOLERANCE means respecting the individual differences, views, and beliefs of other people.
TOLERANCE 3/1 Slide 2 of 3 Word of the Week Cooperation means working together for a common purpose.
Read Across America Day! 3/1 Slide 3 of 3 • Dr. Seuss’s contributions to children’s literature are immense. • Today we celebrate his contribution to children’s literacy • Read a work by Dr. Seuss and discuss the social implication/lesson her presents in that work
TOLERANCE 3/8 Slide 1 of 2 Word of the Week Fairness means equal treatment of behavior and viewpoints of others.
3/8 Exceptional Children’s Week: Fitting In Slide 2 of 2 • Ask: Why do people treat those who are different unkindly? • Show this clip (1.5 minute) • Ask: Have people ever looked down on you because of how you looked or acted? • Have you ever treated someone unkindly because of how they looked or acted? • You see someone you don’t know being picked on by three people who are bigger and stronger than you are. What do you do?
COMMITMENT 3/15 Slide 1 of 5 Word of the Month COMMITMENT is the obligation or pledge to carry out some action or to support some policy or person.
COMMITMENT 3/15 Slide 2 of 5 Word of the Week Cheerfulness means being in pleasant spirits.
Online Safety – Teen Tech Week 3/15 Slide 3 of 5 • Commit yourself and others to safety, observe online safety and “netiquette”
The survey says:Youth Internet Safety Survey (2005) 3/15 Slide 4 of 5 • 91% of youths had home Internet access • 49% used Internet 5 days a week • 34% used Internet to email, chat, IM people they DID NOT KNOW in person • 30% visited online chat rooms • 34% claimed they were unwillingly exposed to sexual material on Internet • 9% claimed to have been harassed online • 28% claimed they made rude or nasty comments about others online
BrainPOP 3/15 Slide 5 of 5 • View the Online Safety BrainPOP movie, click here (4 min 45 sec.) • Complete the BrainPOP Activity, “Safe/Not Safe” for Online Safety movie as a class • Complete the BrainPOP Quiz as a class • Distribute Net Cetera booklet and bookmark to take home and discuss with parents.
COMMITMENT 3/22 Slide 1 of 3 Word of the Week Motivation means the desire to move towards a goal.
Butterfly Project 3/22 Slide 2 of 3 The Butterfly The last, the very last, So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow. Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing against a white stone.... For seven weeks I’ve lived in here, Penned up inside this ghetto. But I have found what I love here. The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut branches in the court. Only I never saw another butterfly. Such, such a yellow Is carried lightly ’way up high. It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye. That butterfly was the last one. Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto. • Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitz on Sept. 29, 1944.
The Explanation 3/22 Slide 3 of 3 • 1.5 million innocent children perished in the Holocaust • In an effort to remember them, Holocaust Museum Houston is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies. • The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2013, for all to remember. The Museum has already collected an estimated 400,000 butterflies. • Everyone will create a butterfly in the coming weeks and write a poem in memory of the innocent children. • Go to the media center website and click on the I Never Saw Another Butterfly book to see examples from other children
COMMITMENT 3/29 Slide 1 of 2 Word of the Week Determination means the inner strength to pursue a goal or task; will power.
Human Knot 3/29 Slide 2 of 2 • GOAL • Work together to move toward a determined goal • CHALLENGE • Form groups of 4-6 students • Each group make a circle • Each person grabs hands with two different people across the circle • Each group must untangle itself WITHOUT letting go of any hands • REFLECT • How difficult/easy? • What strategies were tried?