March Schedule

Date WoW Lesson

March 1 Cooperation Read Across America Week

March 8 Fairness Exceptional Children’s Week/Fitting in

March 15 Cheerfulness Teen Tech Week/Net Cetera and Online Safety

March 22 Motivation Butterfly Project

March 29 Determination Human Knot

TOLERANCE

Word of the Month

TOLERANCE means respecting the individual differences, views, and beliefs of other people.

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Word of the Week

Cooperation means working together for a common purpose.

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Read Across America Day!

Dr. Seuss’s contributions to children’s literature are immense.

Today we celebrate his contribution to children’s literacy

Read a work by Dr. Seuss and discuss the social implication/lesson her presents in that work

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TOLERANCE 3/8

Word of the Week

Fairness means equal treatment of behavior and viewpoints of others.

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Exceptional Children’s Week: Fitting In

Ask: Why do people treat those who are different unkindly?

Show this clip (1.5 minute) Ask: Have people ever looked down on

you because of how you looked or acted? Have you ever treated someone unkindly

because of how they looked or acted? You see someone you don’t know being

picked on by three people who are bigger and stronger than you are. What do you do?

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COMMITMENT

Word of the Month

COMMITMENT is the obligation or pledge to carry out some action or to support some policy or person.

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Word of the Week

Cheerfulness means being in pleasant spirits.

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Online Safety – Teen Tech Week Commit yourself and others to safety,

observe online safety and “netiquette”

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The survey says:Youth Internet Safety Survey (2005)

91% of youths had home Internet access 49% used Internet 5 days a week 34% used Internet to email, chat, IM

people they DID NOT KNOW in person 30% visited online chat rooms 34% claimed they were unwillingly

exposed to sexual material on Internet 9% claimed to have been harassed online 28% claimed they made rude or nasty

comments about others online

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BrainPOP

View the Online Safety BrainPOP movie, click here (4 min 45 sec.)

Complete the BrainPOP Activity, “Safe/Not Safe” for Online Safety movie as a class

Complete the BrainPOP Quiz as a class

Distribute Net Cetera booklet and bookmark to take home and discuss with parents.

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Word of the Week

Motivation means the desire to move towards a goal.

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Butterfly ProjectThe Butterfly

The last, the very last,

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.

Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing

against a white stone....

Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitz on Sept. 29, 1944.

Such, such a yellow

Is carried lightly ’way up high.

It went away I’m sure because it wished to

kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,

Penned up inside this ghetto.

But I have found what I love here.

The dandelions call to me

And the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last

one.

Butterflies don’t live in here,

in the ghetto.  

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The Explanation

1.5 million innocent children perished in the Holocaust In an effort to remember them, Holocaust Museum

Houston is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies. The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking

exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2013, for all to remember. The Museum has already collected an estimated 400,000 butterflies.

Everyone will create a butterfly in the coming weeks and write a poem in memory of the innocent children.

Go to the media center website and click on the I Never Saw Another Butterfly book to see examples from other children

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COMMITMENT 3/29

Word of the Week

Determination means the inner strength to pursue a goal or task; will power.

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Human Knot

GOAL Work together to move toward a determined goal

CHALLENGE Form groups of 4-6 students Each group make a circle Each person grabs hands with two different

people across the circle Each group must untangle itself WITHOUT

letting go of any hands REFLECT

How difficult/easy? What strategies were tried?

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