This afternoon, we began with a book about empathy and compassion entitled, How to Heal a Broken Wing, by Bob Graham. In this story, a pigeon living in a big city crashes into a glass building and gets hurt. He lays on the street, being ignored as numerous people walk by, until a young compassionate boy insists to his parents that they take him home. They feed and care for the bird until he is able to be released. We discussed how the bird must have been hurting, as well as feeling sad and scared until he was rescued. But, because the boy chose to care for another in need, the bird was saved. We then read the final story from The Berenstain Bears: Good Deed Scouts Help Their Neighbors by Jan and Mike Berenstain. This story was entitled, Help the Homeless and focused on the Good Deed Scouts fixing up an old abandoned house to make it a home for the homeless. Even though the bears were afraid of the spooky old house, their compassion guided them through the challenge. These two books provided a lesson in compassion as we continue discussing qualities of a good citizen. We colored the flip picture for Danny’s Interactive Notebook and he wrote, “we feel sad for others when they are sad or hurt”. As we have been discussing time, we then watched a Brain Pop Jr. learning video on Calendar and Dates. Annie and Moby showed us that a calendar is a tool to organize our time and help us see when events occur. We reviewed the days of the week and that there are seven days in a week. We saw that we can find the date of the same day from week to week, by adding 7 to the number. Additionally, we reviewed the months of the year and saw various ways to write the date. We went through the easy level quiz together and discussed the questions. We then continued working in his Florida Studies Weekly packet on Time. We reviewed past, present, and future. We performed calendar tasks in his packet by finding and marking targeted dates provided. Danny then wrote a sentence about something he did yesterday (in the past). He wrote, “I play iPad”. He matched two pictures each for the seasons summer and winter. (He was able to tell which words were which, on his own!) Finally, he scored a 5/5 on his assessment for this Florida Studies Weekly study on time.