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Self-Discipline |
Word of the Month
October |
| Definition and Color |
Training and control of one's self and one's behavior, usually for
personal improvement. Color: Orange
Holiday: Columbus Day, Halloween Why
did Columbus have to have self-discipline to navigate to the new world?
Why should we practice self-discipline on Halloween? |
| Teaching Strategies from KDE |
While character education is not mandatory, this web site offers
additional instructional tools for teachers which could be used with their
existing curriculum. The purpose of this web site is for teachers to use
it to blend Character Education related teaching strategies into their
curriculum rather than creating a separate add-on curriculum. Decisions
about how to incorporate character education into the daily classroom
curriculum are local decisions best made by teachers, administrators,
school board members and parents at the school site. The links below will
help teachers find strategies on the word of the month on a level best
suited to the class they teach.
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| Suggested Reading |
A Chair for My Mother (Vera Williams)
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Virginia Lee Burton)
The Little Red Hen
Tillie and the Wall (Leo Lionni)
The Three Little Pigs
The Tortoise and the Hare
I Can’t Said the Ant
The Value of Discipline
What Does it Mean? Angry
What Does it Mean? Afraid
Miss Nelson is Missing
The Little Engine that Could
Stories about Valley Forge
The Wild Swans (Hans Christian Andersen)
Peppe the Lamplighter (Elisa Bartone)
The Ten Mile Day: The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad (Mary Ann
Fraser)
Hidden in the Sand (Margaret Hodges)
John Henry: An American Legend (Ezra Jack Keats)
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Eleanor Coerr)
Seven Ravens (Grimm)
Knots on a Counting Rope (Bill Martin and John Archambault)
Seven Ravens (Grimm)
Least of All (Carol Purdy)
The Incredible Journey (Shelia Burnford)
Hatchet (Gary Paulson)
The Trumpet of the Swan (E.B. White)
Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal (Joan Blos)
Adam of the Road (Elizabeth Janet Gray)
Lyddie (Katherine Paterson)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rauls)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)
Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse)
Call of the Wild (Jack London)
So Far From the Bamboo Grove (Yoko Kawishima Watkins)
Up from Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
All Quite on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
The Miracle Worker (William Gibson)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) |
| Family Activities |
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Work with your
children to help them set high goals and reach them, one
achievable step at a time.
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Discuss
difficult situations for your family and discuss how you can
work through them.
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Show your
children that if money is saved, something expensive can be
purchased; this could be done by saving part of their allowance
and combining it with money earned from recycling so that they
can purchase a toy or other item.
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Periodically,
take your children to the bank with you and purchase a US
Savings Bond for them. This might be a good birthday present.
Explain to them that by purchasing a bond, they are helping
other people today and that they will get more money in the end.
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Help your
children with their homework, make sure that they do it and help
them to understand it.
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When you set
rules for your children, stick to them, especially if your
children keep breaking them. If you do not persevere, they will
disobey rules that are designed to help and protect them.
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| Suggested Movies |
Forrest Gump
- PG
October Sky - PG
Simon Birch - PG
Hoosiers - PG
Rudy
- PG
Remember the Titans - PG
Apollo 13 - PG
The Miracle Worker |