For the past nine years, the Washington Post sponsors a contest for its readers. Readers create a diorama of a famous scene in history or in current events. The one rule is that all the characters in the diorama must be played by Peeps. For the past two years, Cottage Lane held its own Sweet Peeps History Contest and the entries were fantastic! Not only do I love Peeps, I also love seeing everyone’s creativity. So of course…I am sponsoring:

• TZE's 1st Peeps in History Contest &
• CLE's 3rd Annual Peeps in History Contest.

You can be inspired here or here with past entries. Visit Mrs. McBride's blog post, Peeps in History Challenge, for more detailed information!

Good Luck Peeps!

Today is March 2nd, Dr. Seuss’s birthday!

Watch Dr. Seuss’s most famous book The Cat in the Hat!

Play the Dr Seuss Day Hangman Game Try to guess the title of the Dr. Seuss book

Click here to play other Dr. Seuss Games

Respect is a positive feeling toward others. Through the character education program at TZE, students gathered at the assembly and identified how to earn respect and be respectful of others. Alexis O’Neill’s book, The Recess Queen, shows us how even bossy kids aren’t always as tough as they try to appear. Often, they just want attention or respect, and they don’t know any other way to get it. The truth is that most people would rather be liked than be feared.

How will you show respect at TZE, at home and in your community?

Congratulations to Stephen, Jordan, Shayan and Matthew who won Dr. Lee’s Word Jumble challenge last month! The winners received a special pizza lunch with Dr. Lee. Congratulations boys!

For the next two months, the TZE’s Character Education Program will focus on CARING. Caring is displaying kindness and concern for others. We will teach, encourage and experience simple acts of caring. The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills is a wonderful example of how people need each other.

Today start our own “Rag Coat” with events from your life. Every time you care for others or witness others care, write down the event and color this section on the coat.

How do they do it – Coal Mining & Tennessee Coal Mining After watching the two videos on coal mining, post a comment about something you learned.

It is “SNOW” secret, you are unique. Accepting others for who they are and even ourselves for that matter is a great quality. We need to celebrate our uniqueness as well as others. Consider participating in this month’s Snow-person Challenge. Create a snowman or snow-woman from a recycled bottle and decorate the bottle showing your uniqueness. Visit Mrs. McBride’s blog for details by clicking, Snow-person Challenge.

All entries are due Tuesday, January 20th.
Have fun sharing you!

Congratulations to Gabriel, Isabella, Nicole, Ryan, Ava and Milena who participated in our TZE singers concert today! Excellent job by everyone!!

Use the link to access turtle graphics!

https://blockly-games.appspot.com/turtle?lang=en

“The Hour of Code is designed to demystify code and show that computer science is not rocket-science, anybody can learn the basics,” said Hadi Partovi, founder and CEO of Code.org. “In one week last year, 15 million students tried an Hour of Code. Now we’re aiming for 100 million worldwide to prove that the demand for relevant 21st century computer science education crosses all borders and knows no boundaries.”

So many choices:

• Tynker
• Lightbot
• Winter Wonderland
• Code.org Courses

Visit Mrs. McBride’s post for videos and links. No matter what your choice of activities for the “Hour Of Code” use this opportunity to learn the basics of coding. It’s your future!

Be inspired by the paper bag. Black Friday usually marks the start of holiday shopping. This year many stores are opening on Thursday. Here is an opportunity to “Respect the Turkey,” “Save the Earth” and design a gift by participating in the Paper Bag Challenge. Please visit Mrs. McBride’s website for additional information – The Paper Bag Challenge 2014.