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Week of March 3, 2025 | TK | SEL Week | Celebrating Dr. Seuss
Rotary Club Volunteers Read to Students in the Library
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Social Emotional Learning Week
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework, and we are privileged to welcome volunteers from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club to read read to our students and talk about making good choices and doing the right thing.
Ten Apples Up On Top! by Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg)
A lion, tiger, and dog are balancing ten apples on their heads when two irritable bears start to chase them.
Crafty Connection Cat in the Hat coloring sheet
Website Seussville
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework, and we are privileged to welcome volunteers from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club to read read to our students and talk about making good choices and doing the right thing.
Ten Apples Up On Top! by Dr. Seuss (writing as Theo. LeSieg)
A lion, tiger, and dog are balancing ten apples on their heads when two irritable bears start to chase them.
Crafty Connection Cat in the Hat coloring sheet
Website Seussville
Week of March 3, 2025 | Kindergarten | SEL Week | Dr. Seuss
Rotary Club Volunteers Read to Students in the Library
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Social Emotional Learning Week
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework, and we are privileged to welcome volunteers from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club to read read to our students and talk about making good choices and doing the right thing.
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading.
Crafty Connection Cat in the Hat coloring sheet
Website Seussville
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework, and we are privileged to welcome volunteers from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club to read read to our students and talk about making good choices and doing the right thing.
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading.
Crafty Connection Cat in the Hat coloring sheet
Website Seussville
Week of March 3, 2025 | First Grade | SEL Week | Dr. Seuss
Rotary Club Volunteers Read to Students in the Library
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Social Emotional Learning Week
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework, and we are privileged to welcome volunteers from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club to read read to our students and talk about making good choices and doing the right thing.
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, by Dr. Seuss
Marco struggles to report truthfully to his father the events of his day, rather than embellish the dull sights in order to make for a more exciting tale. Published in 1937, this first book for children by Dr. Seuss was rejected by 27 publishers before being accepted by Vanguard Press.
Discuss When the book finally made it to the shelves, some people thought it was unsuitable for children, saying the story encouraged the telling of lies. In fact, the book is about an active imagination; Marco tells the truth at the end. However, in March 2021 Seuss Enterprises pulled Mulberry Street from publication along with five other works by Seuss due to the inclusion of imagery they deemed as "hurtful and wrong." Talk about the removal in the context of Social Emotional Learning Week and how it can sometimes take many years to rectify a wrong.
Crafty Connection Cat in the Hat coloring sheet
Website Seussville
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework, and we are privileged to welcome volunteers from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club to read read to our students and talk about making good choices and doing the right thing.
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, by Dr. Seuss
Marco struggles to report truthfully to his father the events of his day, rather than embellish the dull sights in order to make for a more exciting tale. Published in 1937, this first book for children by Dr. Seuss was rejected by 27 publishers before being accepted by Vanguard Press.
Discuss When the book finally made it to the shelves, some people thought it was unsuitable for children, saying the story encouraged the telling of lies. In fact, the book is about an active imagination; Marco tells the truth at the end. However, in March 2021 Seuss Enterprises pulled Mulberry Street from publication along with five other works by Seuss due to the inclusion of imagery they deemed as "hurtful and wrong." Talk about the removal in the context of Social Emotional Learning Week and how it can sometimes take many years to rectify a wrong.
Crafty Connection Cat in the Hat coloring sheet
Website Seussville
Week of March 3, 2025 | Second Grade | SEL Week | Dr. Seuss
Rotary Club Volunteers Read to Students in the Library
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Social Emotional Learning Week
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework, and we are privileged to welcome volunteers from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club to read read to our students and talk about making good choices and doing the right thing.
Wild About Books, by Judy Sierra
In this celebration of the literary life, librarian Molly McGrew drives her bookmobile into the zoo, and then the fun begins! The animals draw close to listen to a Dr. Seuss story, and once they "learn all about this new something called reading," they try creating their very own stories.
Crafty Connection Create your Dr. Seuss name Students experiment with their names to create their own pseudonyms: Doctor + Middle Name | Abbreviation of First Name + Last Name spelled backwards.
Website Seussville
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework, and we are privileged to welcome volunteers from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club to read read to our students and talk about making good choices and doing the right thing.
Wild About Books, by Judy Sierra
In this celebration of the literary life, librarian Molly McGrew drives her bookmobile into the zoo, and then the fun begins! The animals draw close to listen to a Dr. Seuss story, and once they "learn all about this new something called reading," they try creating their very own stories.
Crafty Connection Create your Dr. Seuss name Students experiment with their names to create their own pseudonyms: Doctor + Middle Name | Abbreviation of First Name + Last Name spelled backwards.
Website Seussville
Week of March 3, 2025 | Third Grade | SEL Week
Doing the Right Thing
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Social Emotional Learning Week
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework.
A Bike Like Sergio's, by Maribeth Boelts
Money is tight for Ruben's parents so the chances of him getting the bike he want's are slim until he finds a hundred dollar bill. Finders keepers? Or honesty is the best policy?
Ben Rides On, by Matt Davies
When Ben rides his new bicycle the to school a bully takes it away from him and later, when Ben finds the bully in trouble, he must decide whether or not to help him.
Video Ben Rides On presented by Daisy Wallace (running time 3:37 min.)
Crafty Connection Do the right thing coloring sheet
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework.
A Bike Like Sergio's, by Maribeth Boelts
Money is tight for Ruben's parents so the chances of him getting the bike he want's are slim until he finds a hundred dollar bill. Finders keepers? Or honesty is the best policy?
Ben Rides On, by Matt Davies
When Ben rides his new bicycle the to school a bully takes it away from him and later, when Ben finds the bully in trouble, he must decide whether or not to help him.
Video Ben Rides On presented by Daisy Wallace (running time 3:37 min.)
Crafty Connection Do the right thing coloring sheet
Week of March 3, 2025 | Fourth and Fifth Grade | SEL Week
CA Young Reader Medal Picture Book for Older Readers (1 of 3)
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Social Emotional Learning Week
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework.
California Young Reader Medal, Picture Book for Older Readers (1 of 3)
World Map Damascus, Syria
Photographs Courtyard homes in Syria
Nour's Secret Library, by Wafa' Tarnowska
Forced to take shelter when their city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. This story takes place in Damascus, Syria, in 2011, when demonstrations began in support of teenagers arrested for anti-government graffiti in the southern town of Daraa, and the demonstrations engendered a violent government crackdown. Damascus is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on Earth but its sprawling outer suburbs have been pounded to near-oblivion. The story is based on the author’s own life experience with the power books have to heal, transport, and create safe spaces during difficult times. About the CYRM
Our Annual SEL Week returns with the Districtwide theme "Skills for Success - Ready for the Future." Students will have a chance to take part in activities throughout the week that focus on the SEL framework.
California Young Reader Medal, Picture Book for Older Readers (1 of 3)
World Map Damascus, Syria
Photographs Courtyard homes in Syria
Nour's Secret Library, by Wafa' Tarnowska
Forced to take shelter when their city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. This story takes place in Damascus, Syria, in 2011, when demonstrations began in support of teenagers arrested for anti-government graffiti in the southern town of Daraa, and the demonstrations engendered a violent government crackdown. Damascus is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on Earth but its sprawling outer suburbs have been pounded to near-oblivion. The story is based on the author’s own life experience with the power books have to heal, transport, and create safe spaces during difficult times. About the CYRM
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