“Who knew that positioning a word in one continuous ring would make it so tricky to read? The challenge in WordARound is to quickly figure out where the word starts and be the first to shout it out before your friends do. It might sound simple, but you’ll find yourself baffled. This quick-action family game gets better with the more players that play. Go ahead play a round at your next party or family game night!”
Try one or all of these online puzzle games:
Patriotism is the word of the month for our Character Education program. On May 17th we will come together as a school community and wear red, white and blue.
Patriotism is the quality of being supportive for one’s country. One way to show devotion to our country is to honor and respect the American flag. Pam Ryan’s The Flag We Love reminds us of our country’s ideals.
Ronald Reagan said, “If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.” Another way to show your patriotism is to honor our service men and women. Vetiquette is a character education program that teaches children the importance of showing gratitude for our veterans and particularly for gold star families (families that have lost an immediate family member in service to our country). Here are additional biographies of some true American Heroes – Vetiquette 2019.
A Blue Star Family Member is someone who has an immediate family member serving now. (Immediate family member means a parent, child or sibling)
A Gold Star Family member is someone who had an immediate family member die while serving our country.
Celebrating holidays like Labor Day, Patriot Day, Independence Day and Flag Day are ways to show Patriotism. Memorial Day is this month and is an important holiday to show patriotism. Here’s more.
It is time to get those creative juices going again! Mrs. McBride is offering another opportunity to put your skills to work and show your spirit. Find out more details for this month’s challenge here – The Patriotism Challenge.
The Family Fun Game of Visual Perception is an excellent way to improve your visual problem solving skills.The object of the game is to identify a “set” of three cards from twelve cards laid out on the table.Each card has four features/attributes: symbols, colors, number, and shading. A set consists of three cards in which each of the card’s features, looked at one-by-one, are the same on each card, or, are different on each card. Log onto www.setgame.com for more details.
Terri Eichholz offers another Digital Breakout called “Scholastic Beasts” which is the 4th one in her series. Here is the scenario: These 4 school friends enjoy challenging each other with puzzles. When Terry Bull won 4 free tickets to the Imagine Unicorns Concert, the friends thought it would be fun to put the tickets in a lock box and each add their own secret combination to see if they could collaborate to open the box by the weekend. Can you help the friends? Can you solve the digital breakout, Scholastic Beasts?
Don’t forget to try – Eicholz’ Feebo, Not Chee
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April is blue for respect.Respect is to show polite regard and consideration. Respect is a feeling of admiring someone or something that is good, valuable, and important and should be treated a certain way. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect.
Cottage Lane’s book of the month, Pinduli, is a surprising story about self-image, self-acceptance, and treating others with respect. After reading, sharing and discussing this special book you will realize how a few tiny words – bad or good – can create something enormous!
Do you think that by hurting someone else’s feelings it made the animals who made Pinduli feel bad, feel better about themselves?
Additional Resources:
This month please practice respect toward others, adults and the Earth!
It is time to get those creative juices going again! Mrs. McBride is offering another opportunity to put your skills to work. Find out more details for this month’s challenge here – The Gummy Bear Challenge.
Breakout EDU brings gaming to our classroom. Breakout sessions present players with a challenge that encourages teamwork, problem solving, critical thinking, and troubleshooting.
The Spyder Heist challenge includes graphing, patterning, converting, and critical reading.
Let’s continue using these skills when solving mysteries, logic puzzles, riddles and online Breakout sessions.
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On Tuesday and Friday, please wear blue. As a school community, we are going to show our support for Autism Awareness and our monthly assembly, Respect! This is a great time to show respect for others and others diagnosed with Autism.
What else can you do? Please visit Mrs. McBride’s website for further details – Blue for Autism.
March 21st is World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD.) “It is a global awareness day which has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012. Down Syndrome International (DSI) encourages friends all over the world to raise awareness of what Down Syndrome is, what it means to have Down syndrome, and how people with Down Syndrome play a vital role in our lives and communities.”
Rock Your Socks tomorrow March 21st to show your support. Visit Mrs. McBride’s website for more information.