Be responsible! Responsibility is being accountable for your own actions.

Assembly Read Aloud:
But It’s Not My Fault! by Julia Cook

My name is Norman David Edwards… but everybody calls me Noodle. Sometimes things happen to me that get me into trouble. But it’s not my fault! This first book in the new Responsible Me! Series, follows Noodle through a very rough day at school. It just isn’t his fault that his brother’s game ran late and he didn’t finish his homework. Or that his mom forgot to remind him to turn in his library book. Or that Mary Gold got in his airspace and hit his arm with her head…

Students will join Noodle on his journey as he learns not to blame others or try to find fault, but instead practices accepting responsibility, and turns his very rough day into a very good NEW day!

Books:

• Pigsty by Mark Teague
• I Just Forgot by Mercer Mayer
• Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie by Laura Rankin
• The Way I Act by Steve Metzger
• Lucy Goosey Takes Responsibility by Katherine Ciriello Clark
• The Worst Day of my Life Ever! by Julia Cook and Kelsey De Weerd
• I Am Responsible! by David Parker
• I Tell the Truth! by David Parker

Read Aloud YouTube Videos:

Charlie and Lola:It Wasn’t Me by Lauren Child

Pigsty by Mark Teague

What If Everybody Did That? by Ellen Javernick

The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey

Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie by Laura Rankin

The Emperor’s Egg by Erin Boone

The Way I Act by Steve Metzger

The Worst Day of my Life Ever! by Julia Cook and Kelsey De Weerd

Rockland County is promoting reading for pleasure. The more we read aloud to our students and the more they read by themselves, the more experience they’ll have of the world through the things they encounter in books.

Last week Mrs. Luke’s class visited our class during Reading Workshop. We shared our non fiction books with her class. The children were excited to teach each other about a topic.

Be Positive! Optimism is the ability to remain hopeful and confident about the future or successful outcome of something.
Assembly Read Aloud:
Pete the Cat I Like My White Shoes by Eric Litwin

Books with Optimism Theme:

Be Positive! A Book about Optimism by Cheri Meiners	Wanda’s Roses by Pat Brisson	Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin	When Pigs Fly by Valerie Coulman
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Kraus	Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen by Cari Best	The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper	I Think, I Am by Louise Hay

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Our class had a Winter Writing Celebration today.  We celebrated by sharing our How To… stories using a Chromebook   We made a winter craft and had a delicious treat and hot chocolate on this first day of winter.  A great time was had by all!

WOS participated in a community service activity this month of donating “Blizzard Boxes” of food items to Meals on Wheels.