• March 1st - Mustache Monday (wear a mustache over your mask or decorate your mask)
• March 2nd - Twisted Tuesday (Mix and Match socks the Seussical way)
• March 3rd - Wacky Wednesday (Join your class teams meeting with wacky Seuss hair)
• March 4th - Theodore Thursday (Dress as your favorite Dr. Seuss character)
• March 5th - Freaky Friday (Hats on for Dr. Seuss. Wear your favorite Dr. Seuss inspired hat!)

By reading more complex books, your child can learn new words, facts, and ideas. They will also be exposed to more complicated plots and will grow as a reader. Here are a few suggestions:

• Knowing something about the topic or setting makes a tougher book easier to comprehend. If your youngster is reading a novel set in China, they could talk to someone who has been there or look up the country online (try a children's site like www.kids.nationalgeographic.com
• Encourage your child to look at a simpler book on the same subject. A picture-book biography about Harriet Tubman may help your youngster better understand a textbook chapter on the civil rights movement. This is just an example.
• Suggest that your child read complicated material with pencil and paper in hand. They can jot down questions, words to look up, or facts they want to learn more about.

1) Visit strawbridge.net, click the "Order Pictures and Yearbooks" button. Enter the Online Code.

2) Enter your name and email and click "Access Yearbook".

3) Enter your student's information and click "Submit Details".

4) Select your product and quantity. Click "View Cart" to proceed to checkout.

Yearbook Price -$20.00

Yearbook Price Deadline - April 16, 2021

Online Code is: FMYB102047 *(These are zeroes and not the letter O)

Our habit of focus for the month of March is Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood. This habit has 2 parts: listening and speaking. Habit 5 teaches us to listen before we speak. It teaches us to not interrupt, to wait patiently for our turn to speak, not to blurt out, and to try to understand other people's ideas and feelings even if they are different from our own. Habit 5 also emphasizes the importance of speaking clearly and being honest. Good leaders want to be understood. They should work hard to present their ideas clearly and honest. Honesty is the gateway to effective communication.

With Habit 5, we learn how to be an attentive listener and listen with our whole bodies: our eyes, our ears, and our hearts. Below are some "Family Talk" questions to use as a guide to sit down with your child and listen to one another (with your eyes, ears, and hearts).

Have fun!

1. Tell me the five best things about you.

2. What are the qualities that make a good friend?

3. If you could tell me to never serve two vegetables again, which two would you choose?

4. Who was the best teacher you ever had? Tell me why.

5. Which one of your friends is the funniest? Why?

6. If you could arrange it, what time would I come home from work? Then, what would we do together?

7. If you could change three things about yourself, what would they be?

8. If you could keep your room any way you wanted, how would it look?

9. Tell me who you think the three greatest musicians (or songs) are and why?

Also, we will be hosting our 2nd Community Service project through Community Leadership. We will be collecting donations for the Onslow County Animal Shelter through March 2, 2021.