PEDAL FOR HOPE The Frankford school community has come through again and we raised $3726 for Pedal For Hope/Cops for Cancer. Thanks to our student leaders in PALS for organizing and promoting this important project and to our school community for always wanting to make a difference.  A big thanks to the staff and students who gave up their hair to support a great program for others!

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Looking for safe web sites to help your child learn those ABC's and 1,2,3's? Try the link below then explore these sites that are for ages 3- 10. 

http://edu.hpedsb.on.ca/frank/images/stories/userfiles/files/Early Learning Websites.pdf

Quinte West Community Policing and the O.P.P invite children in grades 4 - 8 to participate in a free sports night drop-in program every Thursday night from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m at Frankford Public School gym commencing Thursday, October 13, 2011.

Grades 4, 5 and 6 will participate from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., and grades 7 and 8 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.

For more information, please contact the Community Policing office at  613-392-0911 or drop by the school on a Thursday night to speak with a representative.

Organized by the Community Policing and the O.P.P. of Quinte West.

INTEGRITY means:
 

• We do what is right for ourselves and others.
• We demonstrate values and ethics that are good for all.
• We speak directly, clearly and respectfully.

The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper
In this gorgeously illustrated book, a grandfather explains to his grandson that the Golden Rule means you "treat people the way you would like to be treated. It's golden because it's so valuable." Though it may be simple, it isn't easy to follow and yet it is a rule everyone should live by to make the world a better place.

IF: A Father's Advice to His Son by Rudyard Kipling and Charles R. Smith Jr.
For more than one hundred years, this classic poem has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves. With the words of the poem and photographs that use the metaphor of sports, Charles Smith Jr., reminds boys what they need to know most to become men of integrity.

The Bus Ride That Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks by Pamela Duncan Edwards

"Sometimes it takes just one person to be brave."
In spite of the dangers she faced for going against the law, Rosa Parks never accepted the injustice that black Americans endured and she joined many organizations to try to make things better. On that day in 1955, by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, Rosa set off a chain of events that eventually changed the course of American history.

The Flower Man by Mark Lundy
A wordless picture book, The Flower Man gives readers a bird's eye view of a sad, lonely town where the residents are isolated in their homes and on the street. Finding a rundown house for sale, the Flower Man moves in and begins to repair it. Members of the community ignore him and move about the town. They remain grey as the Flower Man and his house are illustrated in colour.

Gradually the Flower Man has contact with different people, offering them flowers and bringing colour to their lives (and the illustrations). These people then touch the lives of those around them. Eventually, the whole town is brighter, both in colour and in attitude. The characters smile and share with each other and eventually the Flower Man moves on to another place.

The Countess and Me by Paul Kropp
The first time Jordan meets the Countess von Loewen, he thinks she's just a crazy lady. Soon Jordan is working for the countess, and despite himself, he grows to care about the lonely old woman. The countess believes in him as no one ever has. She knows Jordan can become whatever he chooses.

But at school, Jordan talks about the countess. The tough group he's anxious to join comes up with the perfect test of his loyalty: steal something of value from the countess.

Will Jordan find the courage to become the person the countess believes in? Or will he buy popularity at the expense of her trust?

It's Jordan's choice.

HONESTY
We choose to live truthfully. We communicate and act in a sincere and respectful way.

Non-Fiction
Honesty by Lucia Raatma
This book is from the series Character Education and is geared to the Primary grade. It explains the virtue of honesty and how we can practice it at home, in the community, and with each other.

Fiction
Notes From a Liar and Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko

For Antonia MacPherson, lying is a way of life. If it weren't for her best friend, Harrison, and a tiny ball of fluff named Pistachio, she would be miserable. No matter what she does, her mother thinks she's wrong. He younger sister, Katherine the Great, takes notes on Ant's misbehaviours, which she keeps in a spiral notebook for her parents. Her older sister, Young Highness Elizabeth, says Ant is in training to be a juvenile delinquent, Harrison smells like a salami sandwich, and Pistachio should be put out of his misery. With all those royal opinions, who's going to listen to an Ant? But when a teacher, Carol, takes Ant under her wing, Ant's way of life may have to change. Carol likes the truth and she won't take anything less.

Picture Books
The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman

This book teaches one of the greatest lessons of all time, it teaches one not to lie. It starts when a small wolf doesn't like his dinner and wishes he could eat a delicious boy.  The rest of the story is basically the same as the boy who cried wolf only reversed. This book is one that everyone would like. Children would like it for the cute names and pretty pictures, and adults would like it for the lessons it teaches children.

Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie by Laura Rankin

Ruthie loves teeny-tiny things, so when she finds a miniature camera in the schoolyard, she claims it as her own and lies about it when fellow student Martin tells their teacher, Mrs. Olsen, that the camera belongs to him. The rest of the afternoon is long for Ruthie, and at home that night, she ruminates over her crime until she finally comes clean with her parents. Having been counseled that honesty is the best policy, Ruthie, with much trepidation, tells her teacher and Martin what she has done. Mrs. Olsen praises her for telling the truth, and Martin forgives her too.

The Honest to Goodness Truth by Patricia McKissack

When Libby is caught in her first lie to mama, she makes a decision: "From now on, only the truth." Soon she's spreading the truth all over town -- about the hole in her friend Ruthie May's sock, and the fact that Thomas didn't have lunch money and needed to borrow some from the teacher, and how old Miz Tusselbury's yard looks like a jungle. By now, no one is talking to Libby. Perplexed and glum, she turns to her mama for another lesson on telling the truth. But it isn't until Libby gets a small spoonful of her own medicine that she really grasps the difference between the right way and the wrong way to tell the truth.