Week of February 3, 2020 - TK & Kindergarten - 100th Day of School
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The Very Kind Rich Lady and Her One Hundred Dogs, by Chinlun Lee
The very kind rich lady cares for 100 lucky dogs!
Video Will Zero the Hero visit Grand View on the 100th Day?
Activity Dog name coloring sheet
The very kind rich lady cares for 100 lucky dogs!
Video Will Zero the Hero visit Grand View on the 100th Day?
Activity Dog name coloring sheet
Week of February 3, 2020 - First Grade
Black History is American History
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Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story, by Ruby Bridges
In 1960 Ruby Bridges became a pioneer in school integration at the age of six, when she was chosen to spend her first-grade year in what had formerly been an all-white elementary school.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
In 1960 Ruby Bridges became a pioneer in school integration at the age of six, when she was chosen to spend her first-grade year in what had formerly been an all-white elementary school.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
Week of February 3, 2020 - Second Grade
Black History is American History
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Video Rosa Parks Discovery Education (password protected)
Rosa Parks, by Lisbeth Kaiser
A brief biography of Rosa Parks, African American civil rights activist.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
Rosa Parks, by Lisbeth Kaiser
A brief biography of Rosa Parks, African American civil rights activist.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
Week of February 3, 2020 - Third Grade
Black History is American History
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White Socks Only, by Evelyn Coleman
Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi, and how her naive assumption about a sign earned her a whipping from an angry man.
The Other Side, by Jacqueline Woodson
Though a literal and figurative fence segregates a town, two girls find a way to overcome the separation and become playmates at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era and Freedom Summer.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi, and how her naive assumption about a sign earned her a whipping from an angry man.
The Other Side, by Jacqueline Woodson
Though a literal and figurative fence segregates a town, two girls find a way to overcome the separation and become playmates at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era and Freedom Summer.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
Week of February 3, 2020 - Fourth Grade
Black History is American History
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Light in the Darkness, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.
Words Set Me Free, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
A biography of the early life of Frederick Douglass, one of the first leaders of the antislavery movement. Discusses how he spent his childhood as a slave on a plantation, was sold at the age of eight to Hugh and Sophia Auld in Baltimore, and explains that learning to read was the key to his freedom.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.
Words Set Me Free, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
A biography of the early life of Frederick Douglass, one of the first leaders of the antislavery movement. Discusses how he spent his childhood as a slave on a plantation, was sold at the age of eight to Hugh and Sophia Auld in Baltimore, and explains that learning to read was the key to his freedom.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
Week of February 3, 2020 - Fifth Grade
Black History is American History
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Henry's Freedom Box, by Ellen Levine
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave (c1815-1897) escaped to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate to Philadelphia.
Henry Climbs a Mountain, by D.B. Johnson
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), refused to pay taxes to a state that allowed slavery and was arrested in 1846. The endnote explains that Thoreau assisted slaves in fleeing to Canada, and that both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were inspired by Thoreau's writings about peaceful civil disobedience.
Video Greensboro Four Woolworth's Lunch Counter AwesomeStories.com February 1, 1960, four black college students sat a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. Their peaceful protest inspired other people to organize sit-ins throughout the South.
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Four young men who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of peaceful protest and dared to sit at a "whites only" lunch counter.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave (c1815-1897) escaped to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate to Philadelphia.
Henry Climbs a Mountain, by D.B. Johnson
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), refused to pay taxes to a state that allowed slavery and was arrested in 1846. The endnote explains that Thoreau assisted slaves in fleeing to Canada, and that both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were inspired by Thoreau's writings about peaceful civil disobedience.
Video Greensboro Four Woolworth's Lunch Counter AwesomeStories.com February 1, 1960, four black college students sat a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. Their peaceful protest inspired other people to organize sit-ins throughout the South.
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Four young men who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of peaceful protest and dared to sit at a "whites only" lunch counter.
Activity Have courage and be kind coloring sheet
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