March Schedule DateWoWLesson March 1CooperationRead Across America Week March 8FairnessExceptional Children’s Week/Fitting in March 15CheerfulnessTeen Tech Week/Net Cetera and Online Safety March 22MotivationButterfly Project March 29DeterminationHuman Knot

TOLERANCE Word of the Month TOLERANCE means respecting the individual differences, views, and beliefs of other people. 3/1 Slide 1 of 3

TOLERANCE 3/1 Word of the Week Cooperation means working together for a common purpose. Slide 2 of 3

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 3/1 Slide 3 of 3

TOLERANCE 3/8 Word of the Week Fairness means equal treatment of behavior and viewpoints of others. Slide 1 of 2

Exceptional Children’s Week: Fitting In  Ask: Why do people treat those who are different unkindly?  Show this clip (1.5 minute)this clip  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? 3/8 Slide 2 of 2

COMMITMENT Word of the Month COMMITMENT is the obligation or pledge to carry out some action or to support some policy or person. 3/15 Slide 1 of 5

COMMITMENT 3/15 Word of the Week Cheerfulness means being in pleasant spirits. Slide 2 of 5

Online Safety – Teen Tech Week  Commit yourself and others to safety, observe online safety and “netiquette” 3/15 Slide 3 of 5

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 , 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 3/15 Slide 4 of 5

BrainPOP  View the Online Safety BrainPOP movie, click here (4 min 45 sec.)click here  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. 3/15 Slide 5 of 5

COMMITMENT 3/22 Word of the Week Motivation means the desire to move towards a goal. Slide 1 of 3

Butterfly Project The 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, Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, Died in Aushchwitz on Sept. 29, 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. 3/22 Slide 2 of 3

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 childrenthe media center website 3/22 Slide 3 of 3

COMMITMENT 3/29 Word of the Week Determination means the inner strength to pursue a goal or task; will power. Slide 1 of 2

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? 3/29 Slide 2 of 2