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Learn the Troll Dance and sing along for fun! Have the family join you!

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Trolls: Can't Stop The Feeling | GoNoodle

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Use your library card with the state, and check out free ebooks!

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In your Google classroom you have the article and writing guide in Achieve3000. Write up 2 or more paragraphs properly, submit it, I'll get you feedback!

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We fervently denounce all racism and violence, including the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, as well as the many others who are victims of systemic oppression in America. We stand in solidarity with the Black community in the fight against racial injustice.

In a society so desperately in need of change, we are called as educators to empower students to use their voices and challenge the status quo. The role of Achieve3000 in this broader movement is to raise up the voices of the Black Experience as an integral part of teaching and learning, leveraging the critical role of culturally responsive and responsible content to accelerate the skills of students. Achieve3000 has been, remains and will continue to increase our commitment to filling classrooms with materials which include strong positive Black voices and stories as lessons to learn from; to ensuring we provide materials which reach students who have been historically marginalized by racism, poverty and prejudice; and by serving children who have been left behind so that they can leap ahead. Our dream is a world where race, gender or zip code do not hinder a child's pursuit of their dreams.

Educators, students and parents can find hundreds of articles by searching for Civil Rights, African American, Racism, Poverty, Protest and related concepts. Our professional learning services teams help schools to curate specialty collections which speak to their communities and which can help all of us to lean in more closely, listen more intently, and care more deeply about issues of racism, poverty, protest and equality.

We recognize that this work is only beginning. Achieve3000 will continue to listen, learn, and improve. We ask you to share your suggestions with us so we can better educate and inspire students in the fight against racism. Please email us at racial.justice@achieve3000.com.

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We fervently denounce all racism and violence, including the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, as well as the many others who are victims of systemic oppression in America. We stand in solidarity with the Black community in the fight against racial injustice.

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Go on school website and use your student ID number to check them out on the library link!

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Annual Notice of Privacy Right: Know your privacy rights as they apply to 1) student record information; 2) directory information; 3) surveys and other information collection; and 4) military recruitment information. For more information on your privacy rights, the laws that protect them, and how to exercise your rights, contact your school administrator or visit http://ferpa.k12.hi.us.

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Read this book for the 4th quarter. As you read,  takes notes and write down any questions you have.
You can also use Vocabulary.com to find the words to practice from it chapter by chapter.

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Read a book and tell us all about it! Should other kids read it? Why?

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Virtual Field trip #1: Anne Frank's House

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Virtual Field trip #1: Anne Frank's House

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Click on the link.

Read about Anne Frank. Tour the house in either VR or 3D.

Go through the rooms.

Think about what it was like for her to sit soundlessly all day, to not be able to use the toilet, eat, play, or move.

Read the captions, and think about your own experience with the quarantine.

Write about this in your journal!

Play FairGame on the website! Then write about it in your journal!

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Can’t come to Amsterdam? You can still visit this special place from wherever you are.

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You need to write down your login and password. If you have issues, please contact Mrs. Kartchner. She can give them to you. Please keep track of them.

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Go on, its good to stretch!

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Sign in and start working on ELA! You ROCK Kartchner's Ke Ali'i!

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Headache and stiff necked? Try this.

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Neck Pain Stretches & Exercises - Ask Doctor Jo

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Aching back from sitting too long? Try this.

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Back Pain Relief Exercises & Stretches - Ask Doctor Jo

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Hands hurt or stiff from typing? Try this.

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Hand Arthritis Stretches & Exercises - Ask Doctor Jo

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who are you,little i

(five or six years old)
peering from some high

window;at the gold

of november sunset

(and feeling:that if day
has to become night

this is a beautiful way)

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"who are you, little i?" - - Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin, e.e. cummings

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers -  Emily Dickinson

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers -  Emily Dickinson

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

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I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;

When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,

And the river flows like a stream of glass;

When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,

And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—

I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats his wing

Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;

For he must fly back to his perch and cling

When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;

And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars

And they pulse again with a keener sting—

I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,

When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—

When he beats his bars and he would be free;

It is not a carol of joy or glee,

But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,

But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—

I know why the caged bird sings!

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New Jersey Poetry Out Loud Regional Winner Ashley Ungvarsky

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John Uzodinma Mississippi Arts Commission

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Poetry Out Loud Winner | John Uzodinma | MPB

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"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, as recited by John Uzodinma Mississippi Arts Commission's Poetry Out Loud State Finals contest was held March 11, 2010. This is the poem recited by John Uzodinma, high school freshman from Rosa Scott School in Madison, Miss.

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The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.

We real cool. We

Left school. We

Lurk late. We

Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We

Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We

Die soon.

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Many families have reported issues with internet Apr 7 and difficulty logging in for classes. Spectrum does an outage at a spot in Lahaina.

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Log in and start working on the vocabulary for I am Malala and any other book your reading!

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Find out how strong your vocabulary is and learn new words at Vocabulary.com.

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Vocabulary.com helps you learn new words, play games that improve your vocabulary, and explore language.

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St. Louis saw the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic coming. Shutting down the city saved countless lives

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St. Louis saw the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic coming. Shutting down the city saved countless lives

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In Google Classroom is the full CER assignment. Read the article and think about your own feelings on COVID19 comparing these two events.

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St. Louis saw the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic coming. Shutting down the city saved countless lives

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It started in a dusty and desolate corner of Kansas, as horror stories might. The deadly influenza virus that would be known as the mother of all outbreaks tore through Haskell County in the winter of 1918. The county doctor warned that young, sturdy hog farmers were collapsing in the fields as if they'd been shot.

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Virtual Field trip #2:            Dairy Farm pt 1: North East Dairy 

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Virtual Field trip #2:            Dairy Farm pt 1: North East Dairy 

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Watch the tour and stop the video as needed to write down questions that you have, or thoughts on what it is like to work and live on a Dairy. Remember, the milk, dairy products, and McDonalds hamburgers you eat come from cows and farms like these.
Hawaii has paniolo's (cowboys) and ranches, too. But we do not have much in the way of Dairy's. Why?

Part 2 is in the CER section of this padlet.

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Virtual Farm Tour to a North East Dairy - 4th-6th grade - Will-O-Crest Farm - 11/1/19

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Dairy Farm  field trip pt.2:  CER: Hawaii's Dairies, what happened to sustainability?

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Dairy Farm  field trip pt.2:  CER: Hawaii's Dairies, what happened to sustainability?

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Hawaii was once a local milk mecca.We used to be a model state for sustainable living, and the call to bring it back is now going head to head with Tourism. Today there aren't enough dairy's for one on each island. Kauai and Maui both don't have any dairy on them. And Oahu  only has 1!  Can we bring sustainability back, or will Tourism win?

Read and write a CER persuasive argument on this issue.

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How Oahu's last dairy, Naked Cow Dairy, beat the odds-one wheel of squid ink brie at a time.

"We've been having boys," says Monique van der Stroom, pointing to a posse of animals at Naked Cow, the final remaining cow dairy on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. "But we don't need them." She means she needs only the cows, on whose milk her business is built. But looking around the farmyard, she could also be referring to the goat, whose triplet kids nuzzle gently at her swollen nipples, the excited flock of more than 50 screeching chickens, or the ewe and her sister (that's Laverne and Shirley to you), whose lambs don't even seem to be able to tell them apart. Or, she could be referring to the farm itself-an all-female organization, except for one accountant.

Naked Cow Dairy, located just inland from Waianae on Oahu's leeward coast, about 45 minutes from Honolulu, sits on a flat patch of land dwarfed by lush green cliffs. At the far end of the property, past the clucking and bleating, sits the creamery. It's the key to how Naked Cow continues where no other dairy does. A few small rooms, a guava-wood smoker built from a converted restaurant display fridge with clear doors, and an aging room adapted from a 1963 freezer box truck form the cheese- and butter-making operation. "You have to recycle in Hawaii," laughs van der Stroom, hinting at the difficulties of doing business on the island. Today, diners at 20 restaurants around the islands and shoppers as far away as Colorado buy the 600 pounds of cheese and 800 pounds of butter produced by Naked Cow each month. But the path to survival for Oahu's last dairy required a hefty amount of bushwhacking.

When van der Stroom moved to the island 25 years ago to run a different dairy, there were 17 others in operation. But one by one, they were priced out by a system in which the Legislature set milk prices that didn't fluctuate with inflation or changing costs. At the mercy of the single processor on the island, they each gave up. When van der Stroom was handed severance pay and tasked with closing down the final dairy on the island, she looked for a way to soldier on.

"There weren't a whole lot of options," she says. She had gone to school in dairy science: if she wanted to stay in her field and stay on the island, she had to create her own opportunity. At the same time, if she hoped to avoid fighting the same battles against prices limited by the Hawaii Milk Act and hampered by the Jones Act's import and export restrictions and inflated shipping costs, she knew she would have to process the milk herself.

"Milk supply chains for Hawaii differ from those in the continental United States," wrote Claire Gupta in her 2016 article, "Dairy's Decline and the Politics of 'Local' Milk in Hawaii," published in the journal Food, Culture & Society. That's because of the extreme distances the perishable product needs to travel. "The trajectory of milk production in Hawaii has precluded the survival of such regionalized milksheds," Gupta continued, making it cheaper to import milk from the U.S. mainland than to source it from within the islands. The imported milk, though, unlike the local milk or most milk on the mainland, is all double-pasteurized.

Hawaii's first commercial dairy farm opened in 1869. By the early 20 th century, dairies were thriving. Gupta noted that there were as many as 86 in 1955. But the growth of production wasn't met by the capacity of local processors, leading the state to step in and create the Hawaii Milk Act in 1967. Establishing quotas and fixing prices, the act was originally intended to ensure that enough milk was produced and at an affordable price for the dairies.

This worked, for a time, until 1982, when the industry was dealt its first death blow. Until then, Hawaii had been supplying all of its own milk. But that year, heptachlor-a pesticide sprayed on pineapple plants-was detected in the state's supply (later, tests confirmed that farmers had been using shredded pineapple leaves as feed). Oahu farmers had to dump 3.2 million pounds of product, at an average of $1.67 per half-gallon. After five recalls of milk that had been produced locally, consumers became accustomed to imported milk instead. Once that Pandora's box was opened, it never closed. At first, imported product filled in only when local supply was low. But eventually-by the mid-1990s-it became the more affordable solution, year-round.

"Dairy farms went the way of poultry farms," laments Catherine Toth Fox, the food editor at Honolulu Magazine, listing off the myriad problems that both industries face: transportation expenses, lack of a slaughterhouse, and the price of feed. Naked Cow estimates that it pays 2.5 times the cost of mainland dairies, since it imports all of its feed.

But the geographical consequences are matched by political ones. Gupta and van der Stroom both emphasize the effects of the Milk Act. Inflation, retail pricing, and sales all fluctuated, but the fixed prices that processors paid for milk from the dairies didn't-and still don't.

"If I sell to a processing plant in Honolulu," says van der Stroom, "the State dictates what they can pay me." She calls the process outdated and blames the Act for many of the island's dairy closures. That's why, when faced with her employer's own closure, van der Stroom knew she'd have to find a way around the Act by processing her own milk. "On the mainland," she says, "you can have a small farm and ship your milk to one of 20,000 processors." But on Oahu, she had one option and it wasn't good. So, instead, she learned how to process the milk, transform it into consumer products, and market it.

"Butter was the easiest thing to start with," she says. She began by producing 10 to 20 pounds each week and taking it to the local farmers' market. But she always wanted to do cheese. So she made a few pounds of feta every week, too, and people started talking. Gradually, van der Stroom added more cheeses, getting one variety at a time to the quality she wanted, then developing a new product. For the first few years, she sold mostly at the farmers' market, but as she expanded her offerings, she acquired more buyers-grocery stores like Foodland, Safeway, and Whole Foods. Eventually, in 2011, she transitioned away from farmers' markets entirely.

But the market ethos of making and buying local dairy has continued to be Naked Cow's driving force. "The local food trend," says van der Stroom, "is the only reason we are in business." So, she plays that up in the dairy's cheeses, which include particularly Hawaiian twists. Take the Vog, for instance, a gouda smoked with guava wood in the converted beverage cooler and named for Hawaii's famous volcanic fog. Or the pink peppercorn version, which helps to eradicate an invasive plant species when it's used to spike the wheels. The butters incorporate local honey, Hawaiian sea salt, and even Kona coffee. That makes them unique, but also commands a price point that works for a farm whose milk costs $8 a gallon to produce.

"We don't just put in regular salt or chiles that you can buy," van der Stroom says. "We put in good ingredients, nothing that can be bought for a dime a dozen." She eschews categories like cheddar or mozzarella, which would require Naked Cow to compete with producers aiming to make cheese for the lowest price.

Throughout the start-up process, van der Stroom felt that she was just doing what she needed to do to survive in her industry, where she lived-that it was just another venture. But as the dairy started to garner attention with articles in magazines and a television appearance, she came to a realization: "Maybe this is kind of special."

It is, says Toth Fox of Honolulu Magazine. Oahu is primarily a tourism-focused island. "Agricultural land is shrinking," she says. It's considered more important to use available land for development and tourism, and that has forced a boutique-farm trend. "We can't have a large dairy here," Toth Fox says, "but can have something like Naked Cow, doing dairy and dairy products." Though, she also points out that most of these boutique farms straddle the line between tourism and agriculture by offering yoga classes, meditation, and (as at Naked Cow) classes and tours.

The added activities bridge a gap in Naked Cow's capabilities, but while it thrives on the movement toward support for farms and local food, there are limits. The cost of living in Hawaii is high to begin with, so making the decision to spend more on expanded offerings is a tough one. "The state has run campaigns to push local products," says Toth Fox, and eaters are savvy and receptive to that push. But the added support isn't always enough. Hawaii imports an estimated 80 to 90 percent of its food, and "mainland milk is crazy expensive," says Toth Fox of the double-pasteurized imports. "Then you look at local milk and it's twice or four times more than that."

In order for local producers to see a marked difference in their bottom lines, both Toth Fox and van der Stroom say the state bears some responsibility. "I want to support local," says Toth Fox. "But the state needs to support local." While van der Stroom hesitates to advocate specifically for government interference, she does add that small concessions-offering incentives to ease costs for producers of local food-would allow local dairy to at least approach the price of imported products, rather than continue to be double. "I would need help to get my $8-a-gallon milk to be more competitive," she admits. And with a little boost from the state, or even without, van der Stroom hasn't completely ruled out trying to sell her milk for drinking. "I still believe there's a place for milk on this island," she says.

And she's always looking for that place-searching for a bigger location for the farm and a spot where she could open a cheese shop closer to the island's population center in Honolulu. She'd move the creamery there, as well, to provide both a convenient pick-up location and the opportunity for eaters to see the cheesemaking process in person. In the meantime, she continues to find new ways to move the business forward-and keep her place-specific, niche cheese offerings unique. She emerges from the box-truck aging room holding a few wrinkly gray rounds. "Squid ink brie!" she grins. "I call it 'Ocean Brieze.'"

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Hawaii was once a local milk mecca. On Oahu, there's just one dairy left.

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How Oahu's last dairy, Naked Cow Dairy, beat the odds-one wheel of squid ink brie at a time. "We've been having boys," says Monique van der Stroom, pointing to a posse of animals at Naked Cow, the final remaining cow dairy on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii.

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Learn a bit about our own Hawaiian history and the palace.

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Download the official Iolani Palace mobile app for iPhones and Androids. Explore the Palace Grounds and navigate the various landmarks - from the Barracks to the Throne Room - with ease using an interactive map.

Hear captivating stories that took place within Palace walls by simply raising your device to your ear as you approach the landmark. Audio tour guide Puunui Wong will transport you back in time as you learn more about how our last reigning monarchs lived.

Download the Iolani Palace app by visiting the App Store on your device:
iPhone App Store Android Google Play

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Mind YETI --More fun and easier than Second Steps!

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Mind YETI --More fun and easier than Second Steps!

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Watch the Mind YETI video's and then write a brief response in Google Classroom.
Watch the first one, its super short. :)

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With your child there, click on the link, and it will walk you through getting into Google Classroom. You will need them to get the passwords and logins for all major four programs we use.

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This is just to say by William Carlos Williams

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This is just to say by William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams was a family and pediatric doctor. He wrote many of his poems on his prescription pad, limiting the words, lines and space to write them.

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Learn to draw with Dav Pilkey, and every Friday is a new one!

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Rewarding for teachers, easy for families, fun for kids- a love of reading is inside every Book Box.

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Friday lessons with Dave @ the Library of Congress

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Friday lessons with Dave @ the Library of Congress

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Go to the page, watch the videos every Friday!

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FOR BOOK LOVERS: National Book Festival

The 20th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival celebrates American Ingenuity with more than 120 celebrated authors featured in presentation videos available on demand via the virtual platform for a limited time. Access the Virtual Festival Platform External link , then stream the culminating PBS television special External link for an engaging, immersive experience. For more details and the full list of authors, visit the festival website.

Follow the Festival blog to receive updates and to check out behind-the-scenes content featuring authors from this year's virtual celebration.
Read more

Experience the Festival all year long with National Book Festival Presents, a series featuring outstanding authors, books and related Library treasures.
Watch past discussions

FOR FAMILIES: Create at Home

Connect with Us

The Library has launched a new blog for families! "Minerva's Kaleidoscope" will include activity ideas, updates on programs, puzzles and more. Visit the page to explore and subscribe

Create with Collections

Get inspired by an item in the Library's collections then create artworks, mini-books, and more with activities for kids ages 12 and under. Find all activity sets

Dav Pilkey at Home

Check out this playlist of videos from Dav Pilkey. You can also find additional fun and free content including more "how to draw" and read-aloud videos and downloadable activities at Scholastic Dav Pilkey At Home site External link .

FOR POETRY LOVERS: Celebrate Poetry Every Day

The Library is home to the U.S. Poet Laureate, and offers a wealth of poetry-related content online. Check back here each Friday for new programs and highlights from our digital treasure trove.

Listen to Audre Lorde read and discuss her poems at the Library of Congress on February 23, 1977. This recording is part of the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, which contains nearly 2,000 audio recordings of poets and writers participating in literary events at the Library, along with sessions recorded in the Library's Recording Laboratory.

For more poetry resources, visit the From the Catbird Seat blog.

FOR EDUCATORS: Online Office Hours & Webinars

Join Library of Congress education specialists for:

Online Office Hours: 20-minute topical presentations followed by Q&A held every Tuesday from 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern.

Professional Development Webinars: Free, one-hour programs for educators interested in using primary sources with their students held every Wednesday, 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern.

FOR CURIOUS MINDS: Conversations on the Future of Democracy

Tuesday, October 20, at 10 a.m., join Sarah Binder, Bruce Carruthers, and Sebastian Mallaby for a discussion of how the Federal Reserve and banking system might act to address the recession caused by the pandemic. Watch on the Library's YouTube channel External link and check out some of the Kluge Center's past virtual events.

FOR KIDS AND TEENS: GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story!

Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, shares his passion for storytelling through a new monthly GRAB THE MIC newsletter and "Write. Right. Rite.," a weekly GRAB THE MIC video series. Check out all of Jason Reynolds' videos here and read all of his newsletters here.

Watch Jason Reynolds' thirtieth and final installment of "Write. Right. Rite." where he challenges kids to write six word headlines.
View All Jason Reynolds Videos

FOR DOCUMENT DETECTIVES: Be a Virtual Volunteer

Join By the People, the Library's online volunteer transcription program from anywhere in the world. Transcribe, tag, or review documents to help make the Library's collections more accessible and findable for all!

FOR MUSIC LOVERS: Join an Online Event

Join the Homegrown Concert Series: On Wednesdays at noon, hear an online concert sponsored by the American Folklife Center on Facebook or YouTube. Find the full series

Be a Citizen DJ: Select short samples of free-to-use audio and video materials from the Library's collection to create your own beats and sound mixes using Citizen DJ.

Take the #FolklifeArchiveChallenge: Search our collections, find a piece you love, create your own version, record it and share! Read more about the challenge

Stay in Touch!

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, and sign up for email updates for new resources as they become available. More information is at https://loc.gov/connect

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In order to support our community during this pandemic, we are providing some links that may be helpful for children and families during this time of additional need. As circumstances on our island change daily, we will try to provide updates as necessary.

General Information/Latests Updates on COVID-19:

Financial Assistance/Emergency Assistance

Reporting abuse/neglect and support (since mandated reporters are online and less able to report abuse/neglect, hotlines and other means to report).

Child Welfare Services number 888-380-3088

Maui Police Department 808-244-6400

Financial and other assistance : (See also Substance Abuse; Women and Young Children; Food Assistance)

Women and Young Children (see also financial assistance)

Women Helping Women (temporary shelter for victims of domestic violence; financial assistance) 808.579.9581

Maui Youth and Family Services: short term shelter for 12-17 year olds in crisis; 808.579.8406

Community Clinic of Maui (medical and dental care, transgender care, women/infants and children care) 808.871.7772

Family Life Center (emergency shelter, food, clothing, women and children) 808.877.0880

Food Assistance (See also Financial Assistance above)

Link for Food Bank https://mauifoodbank.org/ and United Way mauiunitedway.org

registration, proof of residency such as utility bill, and bring ID (often required for all household members being claimed), some require proof of need/income; noted when addl locations served; call for updates and documents required:

Haiku (Feed My Sheep, Sat 9:30;11am), 808.870.9421)

Hana (Feed My Sheep, Wed 4-6pm, 808.870.9421)

Kahului (Christ the King, 2nd and 4th Fridays of month, 3-5pm); (Salvation Army, serves Maui except Lahainha, need proof of income in addition to ID/residency, Thurs 9-noon, 808.877.6757)

Kihei (Feed My Sheep, Sat, 10:30-noon, 808.870.9421); (Keolahou Church, serves Kahului and Lahaina, Fri 9-10am, 808.879.4693), (Hale Kau Kau, dinner served to all with no documents/questions needed, M-F 5-6pm and sat-sun 4:30-5:30pm; meal deliveries for those in need - see below)

Kula, (St John's Episcopal Church, 808.878.1485)

Lahaina (Salvation Army; serves west Maui and Lanai, bring ID, verif of income and proof of emergency, Thurs 9am-1:30pm, 808.661.5335), (Feed My Sheep, bring ID for all family members, 808.870.9421)

Makawao (St Joseph Church Outreach Program, serves upcountry, 808.572.7652, bring verif of income and utility bill)

Pukalani (Grace Church, serves upcountry and Kula, Wed 12-1, 808.572.8384)

Wailuku (Ka Hale Ake Ola, Mon-Wed 1-3pm, 808.242.7600); (Church of God, serves Lahaina, Kihei and Central Maui, 808.264.0435); (Wailuku West Union Church, Sat 8:30-11:30am, 808.244.9177), (Feed My Sheep, bring ID for all family members; Sat 9:30-noon, 808.870.9421); (Maui Food Bank)

Link to list of "Grab and Go" meal sites in Maui County

Food Delivery for Elderly/Disabled: Hale Kau Kau: meal services for homeless, disabled, and elderly, emergency food boxes; 808.875.8754

Guide to EBT/Food Stamp (SNAP) eligibility: 808.984.8300

Supermarket special hours (kapuna and high risk): https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/03/18/foodland-sets-up-special-shopping-hours-seniors-amid-covid-pandemic/

Mana Foods: every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8-9am.

Whole Foods: daily from 7-8am.

Safeway: 7am-9am on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Tamura's: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7-8am.

Foodland: first hour on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Times Supermarket: first hour daily.

Island Grocery Depot: 6:30-7:30am Monday and Wednesdays

Walmart and Costco are also providing senior shopping time slots.

Please contact your favorite Maui grocery stores for more information.

General Health (See also Financial Assistance above )

Maui Hospital info: https://www.mauihealth.org/health-resources/covid-19/

Kaiser Info: https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/hawaii/health-wellness/coronavirus- information

COVID-19 screening: ( War Memorial Gym parking lot at 700 Halia Nakoa Street )

Clinics/Hospitals: (call ahead for Corona screening)

Maui Memorial 808.244.9056

Kula Hospital 808.878.1221

Office for Social Ministry (mobile care health project) 808.244.8106

Substance Abuse : (see also financial assistance)

Kahale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center: emergency shelter, food, life skills, job training, substance abuse, etc) 808.242.7600

Aloha House (transitional shelter, substance abuse treatment) 808.579.9584

Malama Family Recovery Center: therapeutic living program for substance abusers; outpatient program; Baby Safe Program for pregnant women and young mothers; 808.877.7117

WIC (Women, Infants and Children): call 808.984.8225, https://health.hawaii.gov/wic/ (see also Financial Assistance above)

Mental Health

Education/Academic Support/Tutoring

See also Financial Assistance & Women and Young Children above

Activities while at home:

Fender is offering free guitar lessons for three months:

Fender is offering free ukulele lessons for three months:

Online exercise classes for children

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COVID-19 support for children/families - Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui

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In order to support our community during this pandemic, we are providing some links that may be helpful for children and families during this time of additional need. As circumstances on our island change daily, we will try to provide updates as necessary.

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The caged bird serves as Angelou’s signature image, frequenting her most famous autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979). The image is not hers originally: it’s taken from Paul Laurence Dunbar, a popular early-20th-century African American writer and another of Angelou’s influences. This poem can be read in relation to “Sympathy,” in which Dunbar describes the caged bird, a symbol for a chained slave, beating his bruised and bloody wings. Angelou revises “Sympathy” by portraying a free bird beside a caged bird. Rhyme builds throughout the poem—the first stanza is unrhymed, and only two lines rhyme in the second, but the third (the chorus) features repeated “-ill” sounds mocking birdsong.

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Maya Angelou, "Caged Bird" from Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Copyright © 1983 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Source: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House Inc., 1994)

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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou | Poetry Foundation

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http://collegewritinglatelunchf2014.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2014/09/oranges-by-gary-soto.pdf
Go the link to read the poem, then play the video below.

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Pablo Neruda's poems originally are written in Spanish. He published his first poem at the age of 13. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he was raised by his father a railway worker and helped by the principal of the girls school in Temuco.
He is the most well known poet from Chile. He lived all over the world, and worked as an ambassador to various consulates.  Pablo Neruda is his Pen name-- not his birth name.

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So watch the introduction! Also, you can go to flipgrid.com and login. You will need your school Google email.

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Flipgrid is where social and emotional learning happens! The leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families.

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CER Writing Prompt: 4/13- 24              I am Malala  

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CER Writing Prompt: 4/13- 24              I am Malala  

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“Why do you believe that Malala has been influential and continues to be relevant in world education issues for youth?”

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Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams 

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Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams 

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Don't forget to use the poem guide on the link, and to listen to poem!

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The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams | Poetry Foundation

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Read The poem, both languages. http://cismconnect.org/imorga/2017/03/14/literature-6-poetry-in-spanish/

Then write your thoughts about it.

Now, read this article: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2018/05/sandra-cisneros-on-poetry-her-life-in-mexico

And this article: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2019/02/sandra-cisneross-love-letter-to-chicago

What do you think about the poem now, and the author's tone? What Mood does it have?

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Think of the imagery that this poem discusses.

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Poet Carl Sandburg was born into a poor family in Galesburg, Illinois. In his youth, he worked many odd jobs before serving in the 6th Illinois Infantry in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. He studied at Lombard College, and then moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin,...

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Fog by Carl Sandburg | Poetry Foundation

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Read the poem first.

Then, watch this YouTube video about the book to help you more greatly understand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZfYex7-2KQ

After having read his poem about the Tomato last week, what are the connections from the one on Onions? Write about it in your response.

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Virtual Field Trip #4: Maui Ocean Center- Largest tropical aquarium in the Western Hemisphere!

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Virtual Field Trip #4: Maui Ocean Center- Largest tropical aquarium in the Western Hemisphere!

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·       Explore Hawaii’s Marine Life & Behind-the-Scenes Tour at Maui Ocean Center.

·       Explore the Connection Between Hawaiians and the Sea

·       Explore How Maui Ocean Center is Protecting Hawaii’s Coral Reefs

·       Explore Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle Hatchlings & Holomua Na Honu Turtle Release

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View Our Live Cam & Gallery | Maui Ocean Center

Check out our outdoor live cam for views of the park and marina!

Outdoor Cam

#MauiOceanCenter

Share the wonder of Maui Ocean Center with your friends and family. Use our hashtag and your posts could be featured below!

Search MauiOceanCenter.com

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View Our Live Cam & Gallery | Maui Ocean Center

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View Our Live Cam & Gallery | Maui Ocean Center Outdoor Cam Share the wonder of Maui Ocean Center with your friends and family. Use our hashtag and your posts could be featured below! Search MauiOceanCenter.com

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What do you think, even though she writes from over a hundred years or more ago-- some of her work is timeless. Is this one of those poems?

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Walt Whitman is more known for his nature inspired poetry and for socially commenting in his poetry on things going on around him. What do you think he was thinking about here?

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What do you think he is discussing?

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This poem has often been thought to mean one thing, when to the author it meant something quite different! What do you think?

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An Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

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An Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

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Carefully look at what he asks you to do in each stanza of the poem. Is this how most teachers ask you to look at a poem to relate to its topics, ideas, and content?

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Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins | Poetry Foundation

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Let me not the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116) by William Shakespeare

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Let me not the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116) by William Shakespeare

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What do you think this amazing look at how we influence others and impact them says? You might need to look at how extra cool this is by seeing the way you have to organize a sonnet!

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

The 1609 Quarto Version

LEt me not to the marriage of true mindes
Admit impediments,loue is not loue
Which alters when it alteration findes,
Or bends with the remouer to remoue.
O no,it is an euer fixed marke
That lookes on tempeſts and is neuer ſhaken;
It is the ſtar to euery wandring barke,
Whoſe worths vnknowne,although his higth be taken.
Lou's not Times foole,though roſie lips and cheeks
Within his bending ſickles compaſſe come,
Loue alters not with his breefe houres and weekes,
But beares it out euen to the edge of doome:
If this be error and vpon me proued,
I neuer writ,nor no man euer loued.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

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Call me not to justify the wrong -W.Shakespeare

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Call me not to justify the wrong -W.Shakespeare

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Love, lost or gained, is hard. Do you think this is a universal condition, or not?

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Sonnet 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong... | Poetry Foundation

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My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun- W. Shakespere

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My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun- W. Shakespere

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Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like… | Poetry Foundation

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My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? --W. Shakespeare

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? --W. Shakespeare

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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's... | Poetry Foundation

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Come see where Shakespeare made his name, performed plays, and entertained poor and rich alike!

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Walk around the Globe Theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe with our online virtual tour and 360 iOS app.

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The Phoenix and the Turtle-W. Shakespeare

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The Phoenix and the Turtle-W. Shakespeare

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This is one of Shakespeare's most popular and well known commissioned poems!

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The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare

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LauLima  3x 30min week
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Mind YETI --More fun and easier than Second Steps!
Mind YETI --More fun and easier than Second Steps!
Watch the Mind YETI video's and then write a brief response in Google Classroom. 
Watch the first one, its super short. :)

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* Candy is not to be eaten during class or on campus.
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* If you need a mask break, let your teacher know so they can help you.
*Don't touch other students or their computers.
* Sanitize with hand sanitizer or washing with soap and water at the sink if you do.