Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading. All this week, children at William O. Schaefer will celebrate the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss!
Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote 46 children’s books, among them, The Cat in the Hatand Green Eggs and Ham. Did you know his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected 29 times before finding a publisher! He sure had perseverance!
Motivating children to read is an important factor in student achievement and creating lifelong successful readers. Research has shown that children who are motivated and spend more time reading do better in school. So…Hats Off To Reading!
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 Meby Lauren Child
Pigstyby Mark Teague
What If Everybody Did That?by Ellen Javernick
The Paperboyby 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
2017 Chinese New Year falls on January 28th. It is the Year of the Rooster according to Chinese zodiac. Celebrating the Spring Festival is a great way to experience traditional Chinese folk customs! Chinese New Year has more than 4,000 years of history!
Before the Spring Festival, every family will have a thorough house cleanup and go shopping for festival items. The spring couplets, Fu Character, and the animal paper cut are hung for decoration. Also, new clothes must be bought, especially for children. At the reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve, people from north will eat dumplings and people from the south will eat Niangao (glutinous rice cake). Red Envelopes are given to kids and elders to share the blessing.
Celebrate the year of the monkey during your morning meeting! Learn how to correctly speak a New Year Greeting in Chinese.
In the video below you will learn all about the traditions and legends that make Chinese New Year the most exciting time of the year in Chinese culture. Join the celebration at http://www.celebratecny.com
Read: Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn, Cornelius Van Wright (Illustrator), Ying-Hwa Hu (Illustrator)
Detailed descriptions of the sights and sounds of the Chinese New Year celebration! Sam receives four bright red envelopes decorated with shiny gold emblems as part of the traditional Chinese New Year celebration, each containing a dollar. He accompanies his mother through Chinatown and realizes that the “lucky money” won’t buy as much as he had hoped. His mood is further sobered after an encounter with a man he stumbles upon in the street. He nobly, though not surprisingly, concludes that his four dollars would be best spent on the barefoot stranger.
Below is a Google Slide show of Sam and the Lucky Money.
Imagine working for one of the largest manufacturers of fortune cookies! What fortune(s) would you write? Watch the video below and actually make paper fortune cookies for your friends and family!
Today our class visited Mrs. Yelin’s class during Reading Workshop. We shared our non fiction books with her class. The children were excited to teach each other about a non fiction topic that they had learned about.
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
