I'm fortunate to be part of a school that strives for excellence. We meet students' needs with rigorous teaching strategies, and we expect only the best from our students.
My school is proud to be a Leader in Me school that works on taking the 7 Habits of author Steven Covey, making them age-appropriate, and working them into our school campus so that students begin to see their campus as a way to show leadership.
Leader in Me is not a curriculum, but rather a way of doing life on the school campus through awareness of how we learn and grow, and how we speak and treat one another.
Students learn the habit of solving conflicts, and then they become conflict managers. This is just one way the Leader in Me program looks on our campus. Students take the 7 Habits that are taught to them and begin to think of ways they can take ownership of their campus through leadership. Whether it's a 5th grader helping a 1st grader to read, students setting goals and overcoming academic obstacles, or students seeing a need to clean their campus, these are all ways that the 7 Habits teach students to lead.
My Project
I am requesting books that will be used for a classroom research project for when studying our reading unit on Government. I have a pennant that students use to fill out, while they research. After students use the book to do their research, they fill out the pennant, and then present to their classmates. This school year, we invited parents to watch us present. These books will provide some great visuals to support their research and drawing of their project. Students learn so much through this project and are able to display their pennants at Open House. I have also requested books for our animal adaption research project, such as: Ocean Animal Adaptations and Rain Forest Animal Adaptations. We create Google reports on these animal adaptations. I have also requested some books for our Weather and Climate research project, such as Surviving Tsunamis and Surviving Hurricanes. These books help with learning about STEM, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics with offering for all with special needs and character education.
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