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Q1 2024
January // BELIEVE
Happy new year and welcome to 2024! This year, GORUCK Tribe Kids' overarching theme is BELIEVE. In January, we are learning about how we can better support children in their journey toward self-efficacy. Both of our books this month are about characters who explore, discover, and believe that they are capable of great things. By reading these stories, children will encounter examples of people who believed in their missions and chased after elusive goals; they built their self-efficacy in their fields step by step.
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish By: Chloe Savage
- 8 & OLDER // Across the Desert By: Dusti Bowling
WORKSHEETS
- 8 & UNDER // DOWNLOAD PDF
- 8 & OLDER // DOWNLOAD PDF
February // COLLABORATE
Welcome to February! This month, our theme is COLLABORATE. Teaching kids the skill of collaboration lays the foundation for a life of working well with others. Because much of our life lends itself to being able to brainstorm and work with other people, it is important that we begin scaffolding this skill early in a child's life. Allowing very young children to help with daily tasks around the house and at school is a great place to start teaching this skill. In addition to being helpers, you can ask children's opinions on how they will do these things to get them thinking about different scenarios in which they can lend a hand, and how they can get others to chip in as well. Knowing how to collaborate gives children more agency, or the ability to make good choices, in their own lives. As children get older, they can begin to extend this skill into problem-solving and decision-making. Eventually, children and teens can utilize their knowledge to collaborate with other groups, adults, and community members to solve bigger problems or execute projects on a larger scale.
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // Change Sings By: Amanda Gorman and Loren Long
- 8 & OLDER // Moraline By:Cintia Alfonso Fior
WORKSHEETS
- 8 & UNDER // DOWNLOAD PDF
- 8 & OLDER // DOWNLOAD PDF
March // UNPLUG
Welcome to March and Happy Global Day of Unplugging! Since 2009, from March 1-2 sundown to sundown the world has been celebrating taking time to step away from screens. As such, this month our Tribe Kids theme is UNPLUG. Did you know that according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, "...kids ages 8-18 now spend, on average...7.5 hours in front of a screen for entertainment each day, 4.5 of which are spent watching TV?" Unfortunately, all of this time spent on a screen is limiting children's time engaging with real humans, with nature, and in doing other extracurricular activities like sports. The National Library of Medicine says that, "Screens can improve education and learning; however, too much time spent in front of a screen and multitasking with other media has been related to worse executive functioning and academic performance."
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // If you give a Mouse an iPhone By: Ann Droyd
- 8 & OLDER // Unplugged By: Gordon Korman
WORKSHEETS
- 8 & UNDER // DOWNLOAD PDF
- 8 & OLDER // DOWNLOAD PDF
Q2 2024
April // PROTECT
It is April and the Tribe Kids theme is PROTECT. In honor of a friend of the community, Miles Del Castillo, who would have been 5 years old this year, we are learning about an animal that represents him, the bee! Bees are small, yet mighty. According to the Woodland Trust , "Bees pollinate our wild trees and wildflowers, which then support other insects, which then support birds, bats, mammals and everything up the food chain with food and shelter." They are such an integral part of our world, and so efficient at doing their job, that if bees did not exist, our ecosystem could collapse.
Explaining to our children how important bees are, regardless of their seemingly small size, gives them perspective on all living things and their importance to our planet. Teaching children about our ecosystem through the lens of bees helps them understand that protecting even the smallest of beings can make our world a better place.
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // Give Bees a Chance By: Bethany Barton
- 8 & OLDER // The Last Beekeeper By: Pablo Cartaya
WORKSHEETS
- 8 & UNDER // DOWNLOAD PDF
- 8 & OLDER // DOWNLOAD PDF
May // REMEMBER
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // The Unbreakable Code By: Sarah Hoagland and Julia Miner
- 8 & OLDER // Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? By: James Buckley Jr. and Gregory Copeland
June // LEAD
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // Be a Maker By: Katey Howes and Elizabet Vukovic
- 8 & OLDER // Making a Difference: An Inspirational Book about Kids Changing the World By: Stacy C. Bauer and Emanuela Ntamack
Q3 2024
July // AMAZE
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // Two At the Top: A Shared Dream of Everest By: Uma Krishnaswami and Christopher Corr
- 8 & OLDER // No Summit Out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits By: Jordan Romero and Linda Leblanc
August // ENCHANT
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // El Chupacabras By: Adam Rubin and Crash McCreery
- 8 & OLDER // Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures By: Kate DiCamillo
September // QUESTION
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // The Man Who Walked Between the Towers By: Mordicai Gerstein
- 8 & OLDER // Hope and Other Punch Lines By: Julie Buxbaum (Ages 11+ mature)
Q4 2024
October // BEWITCH
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale By: Jon Klassen
- 8 & OLDER // Coraline By: Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
November // LISTEN
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // 52 - A Tale of Lonliness By: Johnny DePalma and Kyle Brown
- 8 & OLDER // The Wild Robot By: Peter Brown
December // TEACH
BOOKS
- 8 & UNDER // Noticing By: Kobi Yamada
- 8 & OLDER // Show Me a Sign By: Ann Clare LeZotte
