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Understanding the challenges different families face helps develop compassion in our students, and developing compassion makes a stronger society where civic duty, responsibility and kindness are habits of practice. Being without a home can create a double hardship for children when their friends or classmates lack understanding. Emphasizing how much more students have in common creates a perspective that results in a positive impact on others. This issue provides an opportunity to discuss homelessness and its many faces, old and young.
In this issue students will:
- Build an understanding of homelessness
- Discover ways people are similar and different
- Read examples of civic responsibility
- Develop compassion
- Follow simple written directions to make a “Helping Hand” wreath
- Practice expository reading and writing
- Complete a “cloze” activity to practice comprehension
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