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Celebrate
National Character Counts Week
October 16 - 22, 2005
At last — 10 exciting items to make your
Character Week Easy, Fun, and Effective!
Just imagine a Character Week that is NEW, easy, and exciting. Picture your school having the best celebration of character ever. As you read this page, you will find 10 items to help you work that magic. Click any picture for details or ordering information, and place your order now so that everything arrives in time!
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Character buttons establish the excitement for you, and get your students motivated, from preschool through secondary levels. Be sure each student has a button, and make them eager to wear their buttons every day. Choose from Character Buttons for character in general or specific traits. Focus each classroom on a specific trait or unite the school with a button that urges everyone to, "Get Character." |
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Character posters spread your message, focusing student attention on character in general and on specific character traits you plan to emphasize. Colorful, age-appropriate posters give character definitions that can be learned during your celebration of Character Week, and reinforced in weeks to come. Posters tie into lesson plans and books, too, carrying your theme throughout your week of celebration. |
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Character Books not only celebrate your special character week, but make future teaching easy with character education woven into fiction that caters to every learning style. Start the week with a riveting, attention-getting story about character, and enhance the learning with related worksheets, crafts, and classroom activities. Four series of books target every audience from preschool through secondary level students. Rich, believable characters model character traits for readers, and encourage them to build the traits into their own lives. |
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Character Lesson Plans help you teach every book in every series. Easy! No fuss for you! Every lesson plan gives you worksheets and tests, character education classroom activities, crafts, and other teaching tools. Lesson plans for the Character Companions™ Series for students preschool thru grade 3 even include a set of 14 large picture charts for you to display, providing great visual clues as you read the story together. No need for children to crowd around the reader to see the book's pictures — and they'll remember the story every time they look at the picture chart display. |
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Character Trading Cards go home with young children as take-home reminders, drawing the whole family into your Character Week celebration. Each card features on its colorful front a photo from the matching Character Companions™ Series book. The back of each card gives children a simple, clear definition of the focus character trait. Extend the excitement of National Character Week into the rest of your school year by helping students collect the whole set — eight cards reinforce your whole year's character education program. |
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Character Stickers may win you the title of favorite teacher. Imagine that! Children love stickers, and these let you reinforce character lessons for young students. Each sticker matches a book in the Character Companions™ Series, and helps children remember the trait you taught with that book. Give students special recognition for showing a specific character trait or character in general during your Character Week celebration. Let them add stickers to the classroom chart, and write their names beneath their stickers. |
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Character Journals help you shout subtly, but clearly to your students that character really counts! Give your students a place for taking notes during this special week of emphasis, as well as in future character education classes. Encourage them to set character goals in their journals, and then record actions that will help them meet those goals. You will also want them to record their progress in character building. Hint: Journals make great assignment books reserved for character education. |
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Character Awards motivate both you and your students to really make a difference in your school and community. Offer rewards for most improvement shown, best classroom display, best skit, etc. Imagine the delight as a teenager receives a new, keepsake reminder of May 2005's #1 best-selling teen romance, Date with Responsibility. Picture the excitement as other students are awarded books, posters, mugs, tee-shirts, mouse pads, and other character gear. And don't forget yourself and other teachers in the school. You all deserve Character Week tee-shirts. |
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Character Gear is as near as our Character-in-Action® Store, and a fun addition as you celebrate National Character Week. There's something for everyone, of course — even your dog! How about a license frame for your car? One that asks other motorists, "Got character?" Wear a baseball hat or shirt that shows your commitment to character. Tote bags, messenger bags, pillows, mugs, and framed prints all carry the theme. And what could be cuter than a baby shower gift of a little creeper adorned with a picture or slogan that shows the importance of character? |
There they are — 10 exciting items to make your Character Week Easy, Fun, and Effective! How many will you use this year? You know you want your celebration of the week to be great in every way.
Why?
Let yourself drift back to when you were a child, and your school had a special celebration. Remember how exciting it was? Remember the stories, the special lessons, the skits, songs, games, and parties? Remember the take-home you still have tucked away in that box in the attic?
As each second passes, you get closer and closer to National Character Counts Week. Plan now, and order what you need so that you don't miss out!
And if you need help, please contact us at support@character-in-action.com. We're eager to do our part to make the 2005 National Character Counts Week the best yet.
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