Next week (9/21-9/25) and the week after (9/28-10/2) is Start With Hello Weekwithin South Orangetown. We will be celebrating two weeks to ensure all students will be able to participate during their week of in person learning (same activities for both weeks).
Each day there will be a school spirit theme that students and staff can participate in to promote inclusion and to show support for students who are showing signs of loneliness or social isolation. Teachers will be having discussions during morning meetings to reinforce the importance of being kind and including others.
Diversity is the range of differences in people, places or things. There are many aspects of humans that make us different and diverse.
Some examples of diversity include: whether we are male or female, our age, where we live, where we are from, which religion we practice, the types of food we eat, the color of our skin, our ethnicity, the languages we speak, and whether or not we have a disability.
Community Project:
Talk to your family about your ancestors, heritage, and traditions.
Print this “I am from” worksheet or create your own.
Write, draw, print pictures of where you are form and the traditions you have.
Upload your picture or create a video with your form and share with our community.
For the month of May our character education word is Patriotism. Patriotism is having pride, respect and love for your country. One way we can show respect for our country is to honor our heroes who have served in the military. This month we encourage students to write a thank you letter, draw a picture, or create a card for a veteran thanking them for their service. When you are finished, take a picture of what you created and upload it to Ms. Mueller’s google classroom or you/your parent can email it to me at smueller@socsd.org
I will make a slideshow of all the beautiful cards, letters, & pictures created to send to our veterans. For bonus points, you can send in a picture of yourself with an American flag or at a memorial site! Please submit by May 29th!
Overview: Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering
Communities Support One Another to Make Change (passion)
Overview: Passion is a strong and barely controllable emotion; something you really care about RULER Emotion Words: motivated, inspired, proud
How do we find our passion?
Myron Uhlberg wrote Dad,Jackie, and me and it is our book of the month. This story of a young boy and his hearing-impaired father shows how their love of baseball—and their admiration for the newest player for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson—brings them closer together. As their shared passion in the great American pastime helps to deepen the relationship between father and son, it also deepens their understanding and acceptance of the differences between people.
