1. Quick Programming Ideas

Make Way For Duckling

After I read the book Make Way For Duckings to the children I would talk about the rhyming words of the ducklings names. Then we would talk about how the duckling came out of the egg and elaborate the stages of the life cycle. The activity with the children would be making a picture of the ducklings with Mr. and Mrs.  Mallard swimming. I found in the party supplies at Hobby Lobby stores on the Baby Shower section they have yellow ducks for cupcake toppers. I cut them in the middle and take out the tooth pick and use booth side to make my picture of the eight ducklings and the adult mallard ducks with the kids hand using tempera paint. Tempera paint does not have to be used if you found it to be very messy it can also be drawn to the paper or traced. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_75swunmSL0

Programming Contest 1

Superhero book reads Challenge

Planning:  On contest the librarian has to make sure to have enough superhero books for the entire school if you want to challenge the student body. It can also be done for only 2^nd - 5^th grade students. This Contest can be done in October. The contest can run for two weeks or for the month. Address to the students to return the books back to the library as soon as they finish thereby there will always be circulating for those who take on the challenge. Make Superhero displays inside and outside the library for encouragement and advertisement. Have a separate Superhero book log for each student who is participating so they can see how many books the student has read throughout the week. The prize can be free Marvel book series with their favorite superhero cape or a free movie ticket and DVD of a Superhero movie. If possible the student for every ten superhero books read they can get a superhero cut out by which they can collect all the superheroes during the contest. 

Promotion: Make posters of superheroes stating the rules and the starting and ending date of the contest. Identify the prize for the student who reads the most Superhero books.  Their picture will be posted on the school website. Stress on the posters that the winner will be the one who reads the most Superhero books ONLY. Make sure it is being announced on the intercom on a daily basis for encouragements and reminder. They can read books found in the public library and bought in the books stores.

Preparations: Have the superhero books set apart from other books on display. Have posters promoting the book challenge posted around the school and flyers taken home for parents to help their son/daughter with the contest. Make sure you stress to each student to return the book as soon as they have finish reading it. Have announcements already made and waiting for the duration of the contest. Have copies of different superheroes cut outs to give as they read ten books. Make sure the librarian keeps up with the circulation of the superhero books that way the student will have a variety to read and not have to waste time waiting for a book because they are still sitting to be put out on shelf. 

Procedures: Students must sign up at the library and must understand the rules before starting reading. The computer must display how many books are read and be logged on a separate paper to verify every milestone reached. At the end of the contest the librarian will announced over the intercom for the entire student body to hear the student who has won and his/ her prize.

Payoff: The winner will receive either a series of Marvel books and their superhero cape or a superhero movie ticket and DVD.

Resources found in Teacher pay teachers and on Pintress.
Capes are found at Amazon.com.

Michael Gurian on How to Get Boys Reading More

Mean girls bully video for my school

Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy by Emily Bazelon

Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Bazelon, E.( 2013).Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. Random House .New York.

The author starts the book with three school age students who were bullied and one was a bully at different school in America. She gives a picture of how difficult it is to be a teenager growing up in today’s schools. She gives us a glimpse of what happens when adults with well-meaning hearts try to solve a problem as she demonstrates the consequences of each story in the child’s life. : an African-American girl, Monique McClain, who was target by some girls at her school in Connecticut,  switched schools after experiencing depression and found happiness; a gay student from New York, Jacob Lasher, who had to deal with prejudice ; and Phoebe Prince, an Irish girl from Massachusetts, who was bullied appallingly to end up committing suicide. She gives to parents how they can intervene on behave of their child, what schools can make a difference in students and what can turn in as people and social agencies come together for the better of the child’s life. On the life of the girls who committed suicide she gives a clear view of how she had being changed from a school and was taking antidepressants but stayed of it for five weeks before taking her life. But a life like this can be turned around be helped as she has shown from George Sugai who deeply believes that positive rewards for positive social skills can be more effective than punishment for the kids who are the bullies. That has proven to change his school and his students. She also looks into Facebook how they are trying to also bring a stop to this but that some kids are giving up their privacy by being part of Facebook. She explains why she does not believe that violent video games, obscene music, absentee parents, and social media is the true cause of bullying. She does come to understand that it’s not one thing that is causing this negative behavior but an element of different things that contribute it each with its own specific combinations that can bring this to an individual life. 

There are several books that can all so help with the bulling they are found in Amazon and the lesson plans found in Teachers pay Teachers website; 

Bullying can cause hurt feelings, tears, and emotional scars. This pack helps define the many different types of bullying as well as how to handle it in different situations. 

Bullying Definition Posters
• What is Bullying? poster set (includes definitions and examples for: bullying, tattling, telling, reporting, kindness)
• Types of Bully poster set (includes: exclusion, cyber, physical, social, verbal)
• 3 non bullying posters
• 8 inspirational quote posters

Reading Passages and Printables on What Bullying Looks Like and How to Stop It
• What is Bullying? reading comprehension passage and questions
• Is it Bullying? 
• Who's Involved?
• Be More Than a Bystander
• Why Do People Bully?
• Face It!
• How Do You Feel? (using two real pictures)

Role Playing Activities So Students Can Practice What They've Learned
• 12 Buddy and Bully task cards 
• Buddy and Bully response sheet
• 24 bullying role play cards and die

All of the activities in this pack can also be used without the book!

Bullying Activities:
- Friendship Bullying Survey
- Put Ups and Put Downs
- I Spy Friendship Bullying
- My Book of Helpers
- My Bully Busting Book
- 6 Role Plays

Rationale:
Friendship Bullying or relational aggression is defined by the National Association of School Psychologists as “harm within relationships that is caused by covert bullying or manipulation.” 

Relational aggression (RA) can be difficult to spot. Students in grades 2nd-5th tend to view RA as a “friendship problem” rather than as a type of bullying. It is important to teach students the difference between relational aggression and friendship problems. 

Students experiencing RA need to be able to:
Identify when their friends are not acting like a friend.
Know that they do not need to put up with unfriendly behavior.
Execute strategies to combat aggressive behavior.

Empathy, Bullying, Self Esteem Lessons: 4-Weeks of Invaluable Health Lessons!

★This “Empathy, Violence, Self-Esteem, Bullying, Values Unit” is the perfect Health unit to help your students connect as a group, learn to respect differences, learn to get to know people for who they really are, and to realize almost everyone has hardships to overcome!

★Help your students build self-esteem and work on one of the greatest relationship skills-EMPATHY! 

★Help your students see the value of empathy, the power of words for good or bad, and the incredible difference each student can make by supporting the victims of bullying and teasing. 

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***What sets this curriculum apart from others is that***: 

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Highly organized, step-by-step teacher directions follow daily PowerPoints and tell you exactly to say!! 

Passenger by Bracken, A.

NYT Bestseller list (chapter books for 10+) from January-May 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/02/07/young-adult-hardcover/?_r=0

Bracken, A. (January, 2016) .Passenger. Disney Hyperion Bracken Better World Books .Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.

Etta Spencer a violin prodigy is sent 100 years back to a ship owned by Nicholas Carter who was assigned to get Etta and deliver her to the Ironwoods, a powerful family living in the colonies. They have retrieved her only to send her back to return a stolen object of great fortune, the priceless astrolabe. She's performing in the Metropolitan in New York, where her mother works, when she is suddenly whisked away in time, accompanied by a strange girl. Sophia Ironwood, the girl, is a traveler too just like Etta. Sophia's grandfather, the Grand Master and head of the Ironwood family, has had Etta brought back in time because he wants her to find something that he says her mother stole from him. If she brings it back, he'll let her and her mother go. But Etta - and Nicholas Carter, who hijacked the ship that Etta had to be on to get to Grandfather Ironwood, won't let Ironwood get away with it so easily. Nicholas and Etta will travel between continents and time to find the missing object before anyone else does. Together she and Nicolas will travel on the look for clues left by the mysterious robber in order to save Etta's mother. It comes to be the clues that Etta's mother left her over time. The clues take them too many places, and Nicholas and Etta get to know each other. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home. Nick and Etta is an interracial couple and at first Nick starts to notice his feelings for Etta he immediately puts himself into check because as a white woman, she’s off limits to him. Nick being involved with Etta could put their lives in jeopardy. Etta’s mom tried to kill her but then Sophia shows up and we find out she went against grandfather’s orders and is trying to take over. The reappearance of a character thought dead, more on the ‘wrinkles’ of time and the war between the Thorns and Ironwoods. Etta is going to have to make some tough decisions regarding her mother, Rose Linden, and what she feels for Nicholas.

Teachers pay Teachers website on the subject of time travel lesson plans for the book;

Time Travelers: The Colonial X Factor Grades 9-12

Conjecture, If-Then logic, SWOT analysis, and persuasive writing skills are honed in this unit. Research, analysis, and speculation will be a driving factor in this interesting unit. Students will examine today’s innovations and choose one that could benefit society much earlier as the students time-travel to deliver this information to someone in the colonial period. 8-10 week Project Based Learning Unit.

HISTORY QUESTERS Colonies Trek- a historical time traveling adventure

Time travel — Braxton Morgan had never heard of a secret app for that. But his suspicions, ignited by some pretty weird goings–on in his new history class, were confirmed by a click on Ms. McQuester’s electronic Q–Pad. With little warning, Braxton spirals back in time to the settlement of the 13 English colonies as the newest member of the History Questers Team. It seems that his teacher meant it literally when she said she preferred hands–on history lessons. On their trek through the Colonial Period the team meets some important people from the past, like Pocahontas and Benjamin Franklin, and becomes involved in real historical events—way more involved than they want their teacher to know.

PASSENGER by Alexandra Bracken