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Monthly Snapshot
AUGUST
Operation Respect (order anytime)
Operation Respect is a great resource for starting the new school year! Teachers may use it to help students brush up social skills that are necessary to contribute to a productive learning environment. Materials include a tabloid and take-home piece for each student and a teacher's guide. To order the materials, call 256-4299 or e-mail nie@GJSentinel.com.
SEPTEMBER
The Great Manatee Rescue
Sept. 2-Oct. 7
(12-chapter serial story; two chapters each Tuesday)
Grades 3-6 or read-aloud for all ages
This exciting, educational story has it all: drama, suspense, warmth and great characters. When eleven-year-old Ali moves to Florida, she has a difficult time making friends at her new school and adjusting to a different environment. That is, until she meets some unique inhabitants of her neighborhood--a mother manatee and her baby!
VOTE 2008: Election Scrapbook
Tuesday, Sept. 16
This tabloid will help students gather information, collect thoughts and get organized to learn about the elections. To order additional student copies, call 256-4299 or e-mail nie@GJSentinel.com.
OCTOBER
48 Hours
Oct. 14-Dec. 16 (10-chapter serial story on Tuesdays)
Grades 4 and up
48 Hours follows the story of a brother and sister who help their parents' team make a 7-minute film for a national competition. The production of the movie must take only 48 hours. The 48 Hour Film Project is an actual event; this year filmmakers in more than 60 cities around the world are taking on this challenge.
48 Hours easily lends itself to a Readers' Theater experience for students! Each chapter will have tips and a list of characters for turning the chapter into a Readers' Theater activity.
Red Ribbon Week
Oct. 20-24 (daily feature M-F this week)
Majority Rules, Most Kids Don't Use Drugs
Most of us have something in our lives that's important enough to stand between us and drugs. This daily content for Red Ribbon Week features many of the personal "anti-drugs" that we really care about and want to share with others: our stories, our art, our poetry, our photography and our voices.
NOVEMBER
sitesALIVE!
Nov. 12-Feb. 18 (15-part series on Wednesdays)
Follow the journey of veteran seaman Rich Wilson as he sails solo around the world, starting and finishing in France. This 15-week series connects students to learning adventures at sea and provides interactive tools that encourage students to learn about real-world issues while focusing on important academic concepts.
Geography Awareness Week
Nov. 17-21 (daily feature, M-F this week)
The National Geographic Society and NIE will provide geography activities this week. The theme is Mapping the Americas, which will focus on how maps in different media can be used in schools for learning and fun.
JANUARY
Conflict Resolution
Jan. 8-Feb. 12 (6-part series on Thursdays)
This is a good time of year to review positive conflict-resolving strategies with students. This weekly feature examines many aspects of conflict. We experience it often in our everyday lives and probably have many feelings about it. Here's help dealing with it, in each of us and in the classroom.
Tommy and the Guttersnipe
Jan. 13-March 3 (eight chapters on Tuesdays)
Grades 3 and up
This story highlights the plight of the working poor and homeless children in 19th century New York City. Determined to help his mother provide for their family, young Tommy becomes a newsboy and helps solve a series of arson crimes.
MARCH
NIE Week Celebration
March 2-6 (one-time order of ABC's of NIE available after March 1)
Learn more about newspapers. There will be newspaper activities in
The Daily Sentinel. Look for the ever-popular ABC's of NIE.
Passports to the Past (written by our youth)
March 17-May 5
Grades 4 and up
Learn about people who have shaped U.S. history with this 8-part series. Meet a different historical figure each week, researched and presented in first-person by local students. Each week students may answer questions in their own passports. Student passports may be ordered by calling 256-4299 or by e-mailing nie@GJSentinel.com anytime after Feb. 23.
APRIL
Students will submit letters of appreciation to teachers for publication
in The Daily Sentinel during Teacher Appreciation Week in May.
MAY
Teacher Appreciation Week
May 4-8 (daily feature, M-F this week)
Many students will see their letters of appreciation in print this week.
Daily Snapshot
MONDAYS
Homework Page
■Student of the Week
Sept.-May
■Articles highlighting students
■Student Reporters-Kids Voting Program
Sept.-Nov.
■Articles written about the elections by student reporters
■Student Perspectives
Year-round
■Students' opinions about issues in the news
TUESDAYS
Serialized Stories
The Great Manatee Rescue
Sept. 2-Oct. 7 (12 chapters; two chapters each week)
Grades 3-6, read-aloud for all ages
(See September for description.)
48 Hours
Oct. 14-Dec. 16 (ten chapters)
Grades 4 and up
(See October for description.)
Tommy and the Guttersnipe
Jan. 13-March 3 (eight chapters)
Grades 3 and up
(See January for description.)
Passports to the Past (written by local youth)
March 17-May 5
Grades 4 and up
(See March for description.)
WEDNESDAYS
sitesALIVE!
Nov. 12-Feb. 18
(See November for description.)
THURSDAYS
Mini-Page
Year-round
A full page of articles and activities written for elementary students
Conflict Resolution
Jan. 8-Feb. 12 (6-part series)
(See January for description.)
FRIDAYS
Teen Newsbreak
Sept.-May
An education feature of news quizzes, debates and activities that makes current events understandable and relevant to teens' lives
Out and About
Year-round
Includes local entertainment, weekly schedule of local events, movie reviews, TV schedule and more
Special Order Snapshot
■Operation Respect (order anytime)
■Election Scrapbook (order anytime; available on Sept. 16)
■Student passports for Passports to the Past
(order anytime; available after Feb. 22)
■ABC's of NIE (order anytime; available after March 1)
Go to www.GJSentinel.com/nie:
■Order newspapers for your class
■Access lesson plans
■Receive weekly geography quizzes
■Check the Front Page Talking Points for current events
The Daily Sentinel
NIE (Newspapers in Education Program)
Marti McNamee and Debra Dobbins
(ph) 970-256-4299, (fax) 970-241-6860
nie@GJSentinel.com
Step onto any school campus and you'll feel its energy. Each school is turbocharged with the power of young minds, bodies, hearts and spirits.
Here on the Western Slope, young citizens are honing and testing their skills to take on a rapidly changing world. Largely thanks to technology, they are in the midst of the most profound seismic shift the world has ever seen.
Perhaps no time in our history has it been more important to know what our youth are thinking, feeling and expressing.
The Sentinel is proud to spotlight some of their endeavors. Read on to see how some thoroughly modern students are helping learners of all ages connect with notable figures of the past.
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