Teacher Worksheets for September 2024
Hello from Bear Essential News, Teachers!
Thank you for utilizing Bear Essential News in your classroom this year. We’ve received several requests for our free classroom presentations and look forward to getting your students excited about writing.
This is Bear’s 45th Birthday edition, and the feature time warps readers back to 1979, when the newspaper first rolled off the press! This issue also continues Boomer Bear’s 2024 Field Trips & Family Outings guide. To request newspapers for your school, please call toll free: 1-866-NEWS KID (639-7543).
The standards-based Worksheets that augment the SeptemBear issue are posted on our website. Teachers can sign up for worksheet notifications through the website: Sign up here
On page 2 of Bear’s Phoenix-edition, third-graders can enter Valley Metro’s Cool Transit STUFF 3rd Grade Art Contest. This is the 20th anniversary of the contest, which wants third-graders’ best art of their favorite alternative mode of transportation—Deadline for entries is Oct. 4.
Bear also launched a new community half-page called “In Our Neighborhood,” which highlights an upcoming event or an organization or business that partners with the newspaper. On page 4 of the Phoenix Edition, we feature the fall goings on at Tolmachoff Farms. In the Southern AZ Edition (also on page 4), the focus is on spooky family fun at Nightfall at Old Tucson.
Educators can give us a call at 1-866-NEWS KID to set up free classroom presentations on writing and/or reporting! Visits by Bear editors are made possible by the non-profit Bear Essential Educational Services (BEES). Details of the five presentations and recommended grade levels are online under the Teachers tab.
Teachers or parents can encourage students in grades 3 thru 8 to join The Young Reporters Program and start writing for the newspaper! Students cover the stories that interest them. Young Reporters receive an official YR Kit to help get them started, and we are looking for a volunteer Adviser at every school.
This program and these worksheets are also made possible by BEES.
For Bear’s 45th anniversary, classrooms have a chance to win a pizza party and a visit from Boomer Bear. The entry form is on the main feature.
Happy Bear Day to Boomer!
Stephen B Gin, editor
