Tag Archives: nie

Congratulations Katie!

Posted on by
1

Katie Delohery with her 2012 ND Newspaper Association Newspapers in Education Teacher of the Year Award

Congratulations to Katie Delohery who was named ND Newspaper Association 2012 Newspapers in Education Teacher of the Year!

Katie is in her sixth year teaching in the Interventions Program at Grand Forks Herald Central High School. She participates in the Herald’s Newspapers in Education Program.

I nominated Katie for this award for her dedication and her creative ways of using newspapers in her classroom. Here are the judges’ comments:  “Delohery has used the newspaper in the classroom successfully– but this is a special situation. Delohery uses the newspaper in her Interventions Tutoring Program – a classroom for “at risk” high school students. It’s a program for students who with out it, might slip through the cracks. Using the Herald in Delohery’s classroom has benefited the students in their learning process.”

Interventions Tutoring is a program to assist students who have been determined to be at risk for school failure. The Interventions Tutoring Program addresses student needs in terms of academic supports, school participation/involvement, and support/related services. The program’s mission is to identify and remove obstacles that cause school failure and increase students’ resiliency, perseverance, connectedness to school, and hope for achievement. The Interventions Tutoring Program’s goals align with school district initiatives for literacy.

• To improve student attitude toward reading
• To improve student motivation to read both in and out of school
• To expose students to a variety of readings
• To engage in conversations about the purposes for reading
• To help students acquire reading skills and strategies
• To promote independent learning and student responsibility for their own learning

Katie shared with me some of the ways she uses the Herald in her classroom:

“The newspapers are on display in our classroom for our students to readily access. We choose an article of the week to display on our bulletin board where multiple copies are available for students to read. One student mentioned, “I enjoy the articles of the week because they are unique articles or articles I typically wouldn’t have read otherwise.” There isn’t an hour that goes by where the newspapers haven’t been used by students.

Since our program’s goals align with the district’s literacy initiatives we often times use articles for reading strategies to help with comprehension. We have used articles for students to practice their questioning, activating background knowledge, predicting, visualizing, connecting and summarizing skills. I asked a student why they enjoy having the newspapers available in the classroom she said, “I really enjoy having newspapers available in the classroom. It keeps me updated on current events and also allows us to do fun learning strategies that involve articles from the newspaper.

Other fun strategies we have done with the articles include: Newspaper scavenger hunts, locating our vocabulary words, learning vocabulary strategies, using context clues, using discussion protocols, examining writing styles, developing opinion pieces and many more. The great thing about getting the newspaper every day is there is a variety of ways we can use them for learning while keeping up with current events. I LOVE watching children learn; it is my passion and I am confident the Grand Forks Herald has helped many students learn!”

Mother’s Day Projects

Posted on by
Reply

Sunday, May 12 is Mother’s Day – a holiday that honors mothers for their love and dedication to their families.  Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May each year.  Here are some fun Mother’s Day projects from Kid News and Family Fun Magazine.  

To download the page click here

(Note:  If you are going to print the page, check the fit to page setting  on your printer.  The page is bigger than letter size.)

Grand Forks Central students attend International DECA Conference

Posted on by
Reply

Thanks to KimBerly Clark, Grand Forks Central Marketing Teacher/DECA Adviser for sending us the following information!

Left to right:  Jessica Fairley, Jenna Wheeler, Madi Remer, Jason Kuntz, Jamie Griggs and Parker Luney

GFC DECA Members Attend International Conference

More than 16,000 students and advisors from various countries and all 50 states attended DECA’s International Conference April 24-28 in Anaheim, CA.  National DECA President Morgan Thompson, from North Dakota, opened the conference in high spirits and Steve Greenbaum, CEO of PostNet, spoke about overcoming adversity and becoming successful. Mr. Greenbaum was featured on Undercover Boss.  DECA members competed in a wide margin of events and spent a great deal of time networking with each other.

North Dakota was represented by over 150 students and advisors. Grand Forks Central DECA had six students attending the conference: Jamie Griggs, Jenna Wheeler, Parker Luney, Jessica Fairley, Jason Kuntz, and Madi Remer.

Along with the conference Central students experienced Disneyland, Hollywood, Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica Pier. As a whole the conference in Anaheim California was a great experience. The competition prepared students for real life situations and got them thinking about what’s next.

Congratulations to Grand Forks Central DECA members Jamie Griggs, Jenna Wheeler, and Madi Remer who placed in the top 30% in their event, with over 150-200 members in each event.

Cinco de Mayo

Posted on by
Reply

Cinco de Mayo is a national holiday in Mexico, but it is also widely celebrated by Mexican-Americans in the United States. The holiday, which in Spanish means the “Fifth of May,” commemorates the Battle of Puebla, when Mexican patriots stopped a French invasion. It often is  confused with Mexico’s Independence Day, which is Sept. 16.
The Battle of Puebla victory was significant in that the smaller, less well-equipped army toppled the bigger, stronger one.

To honor the day, people throughout Mexico, as well as many cities throughout the United States, celebrate with festivals and fiestas, enjoying traditional Mexican food and special music and dances. People often don clothes of red and green — two of the colors of the Mexican flag (along with white).  -McClatchy Newspapers

ACTIVITIES from the KRP Ultimate Holiday Activity Guide

While most Mexican-Americans celebrate the traditional American holidays, many also continue to observe the major holidays of their homeland, such as Cinco de Mayo. Often, they do so with fiestas. Explain to students that fiesta means festival, a colorful celebration that can include fireworks, dancing, the ringing of bells, parades, and plenty of food and drink. Another Mexican tradition, the pinata, is also usually present. Pinatas, which are commonplace in many American celebrations, are usually made of papier-mache and are shaped like animals. Find a papier-mache “recipe” and old newspapers and help your students make a pinata for Cinco de Mayo. Display their work throughout the school.

Discuss other ways Mexican-Americans have had an influence on American society and your community. Ask students to find and clip newspaper stories and photos that illustrate this influence. They can create a bulletin board display in honor of this important Mexican national holiday.

Mexico is an important American neighbor. Things that happen in Mexico often affect the United States and vice versa. Have students look for a news story about an event or happening in Mexico that will have an impact on the United States. Allow them to discuss their conclusions. Then have them look for a U.S. story that might have an effect on Mexico.

Larimore, N.D. 6th Grade Students 2013

Posted on by
Reply

Thursday, April 25, 2013, the 6th grade students from Larimore, N.D. visited the Grand Forks Herald downtown office.  They are pictured here with teacher Brenda Beck (right) and para Judith Quinn (left).

This same group visited the Grand Forks Herald production plant last May as 5th graders. Here are a couple of photos of them from last year at the Herald production plant.

What is Arbor Day?

Posted on by
Reply

Glenda E. Fauske the Information and Education Coordinator / ND Forest Service at North Dakota State University in Bottineau, N.D. provided me with some excellent information on Arbor Day.

April 26 is the “national” Arbor Day. North Dakota’s Arbor Day is the first Friday in May. Each state has their own Arbor Day depending upon the planting season in their state. This year, however, ND is celebrating their State Arbor Day on May 17 at Annie’s House in Bottineau, N.D.  Click on the following links to learn more:

A Brief History of Arbor Day

N.D. Arbor Day Celebration

Arbor Days Across the Nation

Newspaper Activities from the NIE guide, A Plan for All Seasons written by Ann West and distributed by the NIE Institute.  

  • Work with a friend, a relative or a parent to clip pictures and names of trees from your newspaper over the period of a couple of weeks.  Clip photos from newspaper stories or advertisements; clip the names of trees, try to draw your own picture of how each tree appears.
  • Create a scrapbook of trees popular or commonly grown in your community.  Paste or tape pictures of different trees on different pages of your scrapbook and identify the type of tree you have selected.  If you clip names of trees, try to draw your own picture of how each tree appears.
  • Finally, try to find an example of a leaf from most of the types of trees you identified in your notebook.  Attach the leaf to the appropriate page.  If you can’t find a particular leaf, do some research and draw a sample leaf from the tree.
  • When you complete your scrapbook, add a page to the back of the scrapbook in which you describe any findings you and your partner made.  Include any final statements about your research and what you learned about trees in your community.

Free online Earth Day book

Posted on by
Reply

Check out this free online Earth Day book made available by author Artie Knapp.

Living Green: A Turtle’s Quest for a Cleaner Planet - tired of seeing the land he loves cluttered with trash, Thurman the turtle decides it’s time to take action.

A shortlist finalist for the 2012 national Green Earth Book Award.

Click on the link below to access the book: 

http://www.mightybook.com/MightyBook_free/artie_knapp/living_green.html

 

Celebrate Earth Day with these Newspaper Activities

Posted on by
Reply

Every day is Earth Day for people who care about the environment. But for one day each year, people all over the world join forces to call attention to the beauty of the Earth and the ways in which we can protect it.

Here are a number of activities to help you call attention to this special day.  These activities are from KRP’s Ultimate Holiday Activity Guide distributed by the NIE Institute.

1. Talk about environmental problems in your community. Have students find a newspaper story about one of those problems. Ask them how they would solve the problem, then have them write a letter to the editor of the newspaper expressing their thoughts.

2. Have students look through the newspaper’s advertisements for products that are promoted as environmentally friendly or safe for the environment. What conclusions can they draw from their findings? Encourage discussion.

3. Ask students to pick one product advertised in the newspaper and discuss the effects that product might have on the environment.

4. Instruct students to look through the newspaper for items that can be recycled. Ask them to list the items and find out if each can be recycled in your community. Conclude by having students come up with their own ways to recycle the newspaper (use as wrapping paper, line the bird cage, etc.). Encourage them to be creative.

A Curriculum Guide to Teach Environmental Education 

Click here to download the guide

Here is a 53 page guide you can download from the EGBAR Foundation titled “THE EGBAR Clean-Up Challenge.”  This curriculum was developed to help educators effectively and easily integrate environmental education into their classroom teaching. This curriculum guide covers a variety of environmental issues such as: sources of pollution, hazardous wastes, recycling, energy, renewable and non-renewable resources, global warming, and environmental laws. Each lesson is designed with a student objective, grade level recommendation, list of materials, discussion of teaching strategies for the lesson, and an opportunity to extend the lesson through additional activities. For each lesson there is an accompanying student activity sheet. The activity sheet is ready for you to copy and can be used as an independent assignment or cooperative learning activity.

High Schools – we need your information

Posted on by
Reply

The Grand Forks Herald will be publishing the Class of 2013 special section on Sunday, May 12, 2013.  High schools – if you haven’t sent in your information yet, please do so by Friday, April 12.

A detailed letter was sent to area schools in early March. Here is a list of the information we requested.

1. Listing of other candidates for graduation (PLEASE LIST BY FIRST NAME FIRST, LAST NAME LAST. DO NOT INCLUDE MIDDLE NAMES OR INITIALS.)

2. The valedictorian and photo

3. The salutatorian and photo

4. Listing of honor students – NO PHOTOS PLEASE

5. Date, time and place of your graduation ceremony

6. Class motto or theme (optional)

7. Class flower (optional)

This keepsake section will feature graduates from high schools through out our North Dakota and Minnesota circulation area. Remember information must be received by Friday, April 12.

If you have any questions call Lisa Gibson at (701) 787-6753 or (800) 477-6572 ext. 1753 or send an email to: lgibson@gfherald.com.