​Books on display:
Picture books--Deaf Awareness Month and International Day of Peace
Chapter books—Animal stories
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TK: International Day of Peace: The Peace Book, by Todd Parr
 
K: : International Day of Peace: The Peace Book, by Todd Parr
 
1st: International Day of Peace—I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness, by Susan Verde
 
2nd: The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game, by Nancy Churnin
 
DHH: Helen Keller’s Best Friend Belle, by Holly M. Barry
 
3rd: Helen’s Big Words, by Doreen Rapaport
 
4th: Dad, Jackie, and Me, by Myron Uhlberg
 
5th: Gralnik—Websites, pt. 1; Curry and Rios—Websites, pt. 2, with bookmark
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Books on display:
Picture books--Constitution, Laws, and Rules
Chapter books/nonfiction—Animal Stories
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TK: Oh No, George! by Chris Haughton; Charley’s First Night, by Amy Hest
 
K and 1st: A Visitor for Bear, by Bonnie Becker
 
2nd: Rules of the House, by Mac Barnett
 
DHH: Read It, Don’t Eat It, by Ian Schoenherr
 
3rd: The Library Dragon, by Carmen Agra Deedy; OR The Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival, by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery
 
4th: The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet, by Carmen Agra Deedy (Freedom of Speech); OR The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, by Mordecai Gerstein (remembering the World Trade Center and September 11--see photo below)
 
5th: Britannica Schools, "September 11, 2001"; September Roses, by Jeanette Winter
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Philippe Petit walks on a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, August 7, 1974.

 ​Books on display:
Picture books: Libraries and books
Chapter books—Realistic fiction
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TK: not visiting this week due to Labor Day holiday
 
K: Truman, by Jean Reidy; The Jacket, by Kirsten Hall
 
1st: What do we call the parts of a book? AND Look! I Wrote a Book! (And You Can too!), by Sally Lloyd-Jones
 
2nd: How To Read a Story, by Kate Messner; AND Edward and the Pirates, by David McPhail
 
DHH: Reading Makes You Feel Good, by Todd Parr
 
3rd: How This Book Was Made, by Mac Barnett; PK library website to TeachingBooks.net for video book trailer
 
4th:  Fiction and what we learn from it--Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse, by Marcy Campbell
 
5th: Gralnik: does not visit; Curry and Rios—Websites, pt. 1 (PowerPoint)
 

​Books on display:
Picture books—School
Chapter books—Mystery fiction
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TK/K: The Pigeon Has to Go to School, by Mo Willems; a little bit about the library; Rufus Goes to School, by Kim T. Griswell; look at books on the tables
 
1st: Library basics; AND We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, by Ryan T. Higgins
 
2nd: Library basics; AND The Secret Life of Squirrels: Back to School! by Nancy Rose
 
DHH: Introduction to the library and library rules
 
3rd: Demonstrate catalog search: identify call number; show Reading/Interest/F&P levels and page length; remind students not to do anything on Chromebooks besides Catalog, encyclopedias, and library website; AND I Yam a Donkey! by Cece Bell
 
4th Hart: Demonstrate catalog search: (identify call number; show Reading/Interest/F&P levels and page length), remind students not to do anything on Chromebooks besides Catalog, encyclopedias, and library website, invite students to use library at lunch, call number game, choose “Just right” books; Herringshaw: Demonstrate catalog search: (identify call number; show Reading/Interest/F&P levels and page length), remind students not to do anything on Chromebooks besides Catalog, encyclopedias, and library website, invite students to use library at lunch, call number game; Rumble: Demonstrate catalog search: (identify call number; show Reading/Interest/F&P levels and page length), remind students not to do anything on Chromebooks besides Catalog, encyclopedias, and library website, invite students to use library at lunch, The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown, by Mac Barnett, video at https://www.teachingbooks.net/author_interview.cgi?id=34295
 
5th: Basic searching: find a call number, circulation status, level, page length, Resource Lists; Gralnik and Curry—check out a mystery book; Rios—realistic fiction booktalk (Liar and Spy, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, How to Steal a Dog), book trailer for Front Desk on TeachingBooks.net https://www.teachingbooks.net/booktrailer.cgi?id=4576
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No checkouts this week! RETURNS ONLY
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TK: A Squiggly Story, by Andrew Larsen
 
K: The Show and Tell Lion, by Barbara Abercrombie; A Squiggly Story, by Andrew Larsen
 
1st: Good Rosie! by Kate DiCamillo; Life, by Cynthia Rylant

2nd: I Am a Story, by Dan Yaccarino, AND/OR The Highest Mountain of Books in the World, by Rocio Bonilla; and “The Joy of Books” video
 
DHH: distribute library cards; Reading Makes You Feel Good, by Todd Parr
 
3rd: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear, by Lindsay Mattick

​4th: Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse, by Marcy Campbell; Instructions, by Neil Gaiman
 
5th: no library this week
 

LAST WEEK TO CHECK OUT for parents and most students
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TK: Does not visit due to Memorial Day
 
K: Returning books only. Give Bees a Chance, by Bethany Barton

1st: Mama Lion Wins the Race, by Jon J. Muth

2nd: The Antlered Ship, by Dashka Slater
 
DHH: distribute library cards; Reading Makes You Feel Good, by Todd Parr
 
3rd: Brave Red, Smart Frog, by Emily Jenkins

​4th: Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates, by Tim Myers
 
5th: does not visit

On display: Memorial Day, Fairy Tales, and Asian – Pacific Islander Month
K: Last week to check out with your c lass
5th grade: Last class library visits!
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​TK: Say Hello to Zorro, by Carter Goodrich; Zorro Gets an Outfit, by Carter Goodrich
 
K: Lucky Ducklings, by Eva Moore; look at Encyclopedia Britannica duck video

1st: Grandad’s Fishing Buddy, by Mary Quigley
 
DHH: One Bean, by Anne Rockwell

2nd: Ruby’s Wish, by Shirin Yim Bridges
 
3rd: Basho and the River Stones, by Tim Myers
 
4th: Finish Lewis and Clark and Me, with “Buffalo,” “My Favorite Words,” pp. 62-63 of the Afterword
 
5th: Last class visit--Tadpole’s Promise, by Jeanne Willis; A Letter to My Teacher, by Deborah Hopkinson

On display: Asian—Pacific Island Heritage Month
Mrs. Jones here on Friday, May 17 
PK Talent Show is Friday, May 17, 2019
Most grades: Summer Reading Lists
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TK: Asian-Pacific heritage--Two of Everything, by Lily Toy Hong; where is Asia?
 
K: Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, by David Ezra Stein
 
1st: Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, by David Ezra Stein
 
2nd: summer reading list—Cannon--Charlotte the Scientist Is Squished, by Camille Andros; Fletcher--Great Big Guinea Pigs, by Susan L. Roth; Freeman--Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast, by Josh Funk
 
DHH: The Curious Garden, by Peter Brown
 
3rd: Giraffe Problems, by Jory John
 
4th: Hart—“Bear-dog,” “Beaver”; Herringshaw and Rumble--Giraffe Problems, by Jory John
 
5th: Library Jeopardy

​TK: Frog on a Log, by Kes Gray; Geese Find the Missing Piece, by Marco and Giulio Maestro; mother poems from Song of the Wild, by Nicola Davies
 
K: Frog on a Log, by Kes Gray; Guess Again! by Mac Barnett
 
1st: Trees, by Verlie Hutchens; OR Once I Ate a Pie, by Patricia MacLachlan
 
2nd: Selections from the National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry; OR Hotel Deep, by Kurt Cyrus
 
DHH: Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deb Guarino
 
3rd: Public librarian visits!
 
4th: Lewis and Clark and Me, by Laurie Myers: Hart—BrainPop, “The Beginning,” and “Squirrels”; Herringshaw and Rumble—“Bear-dog,” “Beaver”
 
5th: Poetry slides and “maggie and milly and molly and mae,” by e. e. cummings

TK: The Cloud Spinner, by Michael Catchpool
 
K: The Cloud Spinner, by Michael Catchpool
 
1st: Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together, by Andrea Tsurumi
 
2nd: A Bike Like Sergio’s, by Maribeth Boelts; OR Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together, by Andrea Tsurumi
 
DHH: A Bike Like Sergio’s, by Maribeth Boelts
 
3rd: Kamishibai Man, by Allen Say (video about storytelling up to 1 min 35 seconds)
 
4th: Lewis and Clark and Me, by Laurie Myers
 
5th: The Table Where the Rich People Sit, by Byrd Baylor; OR Kamishibai Man, by Allen Say (video about storytelling up to 1 min 35 seconds)
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