Word of the Month
JULY

**Please review the following suggestions for content and appropriateness to your child and/or student/s**

Suggested Reading:
The Divide (Michael Bedard; illustrated by Emily Arnold)
If I forget, You Remember (Carol Lynch Williams)
Miss Nelson is Missing
The Alfred Summer
The Value of Sharing and the Story of the Mayo Brothers
I Claudius

Suggest Film:
Apollo 13 rated PG-13
Remember the Titans rated PG-13


Suggested Songs:
I’m Different

Family Activity:

• Help put up the decorations for the holidays.

• Talk about how your family had adapted to different changes.

• Take this chance to make a list of things your family does together and discuss ways to make them more enjoyable.

Class Activity:

• Discuss how important cooperation is in your students’ daily lives. Good topics of discussion include the workings of a sports team.

• Talk about when the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock and how they had to adapt to their new country. 

• Talk about the first Thanksgiving and how the Native Americans and Pilgrims had to adapt to each other and sharing the land.

• Have your students put on short skits showing people cooperating to deal with a major change.

• Discuss how as students, they adjust to change every school year.

High School Activity:

• Discuss why the willingness to change is essential for a democratic government and society to function.

• Discuss why adaptability is essential for a business to function.

• Under what circumstances is it wrong for a person to adapt to cooperate with another person or an organization.

Quotes:

“Help one another, listen to one another, and love one another.”
        -Anonymous

“United we are strong; united we will win.”
        -Slogan on an Allied poster during the Second World War

“United we stand, divided we fall.”
        -Kentucky’s state motto

“He must learn to cooperate...to obey my orders without question.”
        -Prime Minister Jim Hacker in the BBC comedy program Yes,             Prime Minister

“We must indeed all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
        -Benjamin Franklin

“Like the body is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.”
        -Hindu proverb

"A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.”
        -Thomas Jefferson

"We are all angels with only one wing. We can only fly while embracing each other.”
        -Luciano De Crescenzo

Perform a Random Act of Kindness Each Day