Resources

I am implementing a new web-based program called MobyMax in our classroom. Students will use MobyMax during ELA and Math review times. Please feel free to have your child work on MobyMax from home. I have place a link to MobyMax in the links section on the right hand sidebar. Students username is their first name (lowercase) and the password is their first name (lowercase). This program is case sensitive so please make sure they are using all lowercase when logging in and for their password. Another feature is the ability for parents to monitor/check your child's progress. Just select parent from the drop down menu and login using your child's username and password. I hope that everyone will enjoy this program and use it to enhance learning.

American Heroes

During the 2nd nine weeks, our reading will focus on nine great Americans. Each week we will pick one American to study. We will read and discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people's rights and freedoms in a democracy. We will also study their character traits. The nine Americans are: Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women's rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosemelt (New Deal and WW II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and Cesar Chavez (worker's rights). We will also look at the social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them. We will begin this series with Eleanor Roosevelt.