On Tuesday, Dec. 1st, 50 volunteers from Assistance League of Los Gatos-Saratoga distributed 1,296 dictionaries to 43 classrooms in 9 schools as part of Campbell Union School District's College and Career Curriculum Strand. Students get to keep the dictionaries for their personal use at home or at school.
As part of the presentation, each volunteer taught a short lesson on dictionary use, using games and suggestions. Typically, presenters wear their college sweatshirts or career uniforms and discuss how literacy will affect the students' lives and future education.
The Assistance League of Los Gatos-Saratoga has been part of this annual tradition providing dictionaries for every third grader in the District for the past nine years.
This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7-13), Forest Hill will join in the Hour of Code, a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. It is designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics of computer science.
This month’s ABC book: “Say Something” by Peggy Moss is a powerful story in which the narrator sees and hears teasing, put-downs, pushing, and other forms of bully behaviors at her school. Because she’s confused about what to do, she doesn’t do anything at first. However, her responses change as she gains understanding and empathy. 