Aurelia Pennekamp Elementary School Library - Weekly Readalouds

June 5, 2017

6/1/2017

No more checking out books this year! RETURNS ONLY this week.

K: Attending Manhattan Beach Public Library assembly instead

1st: Grandad’s Fishing Buddy, by Mary Quigley

2nd: Weslandia, by Paul Fleischman

DHH: A Balloon for Isabel, by Deborah Underwood; Farfallina and Marcel, by Holly Keller; AND Miss Maple’s Seeds, by Eliza Wheeler

3rd: Burnt Toast on Davenport Street, by Tim Egan

4th: Nacho and Lolita, by Pam Munoz Ryan
L.A. Times article
AND "The Joy of Books" video
https://youtu.be/SKVcQnyEIT8

5th: Gralnik and Rios only: Library Jeopardy
https://jeopardylabs.com/play/enter-title291689
AND Tadpole’s Promise, by Jeanette Winter

May 29, 2017

5/30/2017

K: RETURNS ONLY THIS WEEK! Last library visit of the year for kindergarten.
The Airport Book, by Lisa Brown
Gotta Go, Gotta Go, by Sam Swope

1st: Miss Hazeltine’s Home for Fearful Cats, by Alicia Potter

2nd: Coral Reefs, by Jason Chin

DHH: Miss Hazeltine’s Home for Fearful Cats, by Alicia Potter; Moustronaut,
by Mark Kelly; Lost and Found, by Oliver Jeffers

3rd: The Camping Trip that Changed America, by Barb Rosenstock

4th: Hart only--The Adventures of Mark Twain, by Huckleberry Finn (with considerable help from Robert Burleigh and Barry Blitt)

5th: does not visit this week

May 22, 2017

5/16/2017

K: Vanderpool/Schneck and Ellis, Interrupting Chicken, by David Ezra Stein (last week to check out books for Vanderpool/Schneck and Ellis)

1st: Interrupting Chicken, by David Ezra Stein

DHH: Two Bobbies, by Kirby Larson and Mary Netherly; AND Let’s Get a Pup, Said Kate, by Bob Graham

2nd: The Old Woman Who Named Things, by Cynthia Rylant

3rd: Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas, by Lynne Cox; OR The Old Woman Who Named Things, by Cynthia Rylant

4th: Mr. Ferris and His Wheel, by Kathryn Gibbs Davis; OR One Grain of Rice, by Demi

5th: not coming this week

May 15, 2017

5/13/2017

K: Schepis and Ellis, Seaver the Weaver, by Paul Czajak; AND The Jacket, by Kirsten Hall; Vanderpool/Schneck, not coming due to field trip

1st, 2nd, 3rd: This Is a Moose, by Richard T. Morris; Seaver the Weaver, by Paul Czajak; The Quiet Place, by Sarah Stewart; OR The Gold Miner’s Daughter: A Melodramatic Fairy Tale, by Jackie Mims Hopkins

DHH: The Cloud Spinner, by Michael Catchpool; Seaver the Weaver, by Paul Czajak

4th: Mack Made Movies, by Don Brown, with “Keystone Kops Meet Pickles and Peppers” (film)

5th: Rios and Gralnik, How the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop, by Laban Carrick Hill; Curry, Tadpole’s Promise, by Jeannette Winter, and Library Jeopardy

May 8, 2017

5/8/2017

K: Two of Everything, by Lily Toy Hong

1st: Aunt Luka’s Quilt, by Georgia Gubak

2nd: Basho and the River Stones, by Tim Myers

DHH: Two of Everything, by Lily Toy Hong; Aunt Luka’s Quilt, by Georgia Gubak

3rd: I, Doko, by Ed Young

4th: Mountain Chef, by Annette Bay Pimental

5th: Rutherford B., Who Was He? by Marilyn Singer

May 1, 2017

5/1/2017

Pocket Poem week!

K: Are there any poems to share? Take photos of students who brought a poem.
If time, read Geese Find the Missing Piece, by Marco and Giulio Maestro
If time, read Sequoia, by Tony Johnston
Pass out poems and take a group picture of whole class.

1st: Are there any poems to share? Take photos of students who brought a poem.
Read poems from Book of Animal Poetry, edited by J. Patrick Lewis
Pass out poems and take a group picture of whole class.

DHH: Are there any poems to share? Take photos of students who brought a poem.
If time, read Geese Find the Missing Piece, by Marco and Giulio Maestro
If time, read Sequoia, by Tony Johnston
If time, also One Leaf Rides the Wind, by Celeste Davidson Mannis
Pass out poems and take a group picture of whole class.

2nd-5th: Are there any poems to share? Take photos of students who brought a poem.
Would anyone like to read a poem from the bag? Read it and take a picture.
If time, president poems from Rutherford B., Who Was He? by Marilyn Singer

April 24, 2017

4/23/2017

K: Pete the Cat: Play Ball! by James Dean; Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit, by Chris Van Dusen

1st: Roasted Peanuts, by Tim Egan

2nd: Casey Back at Bat, by Dan Gutman

DHH: Casey Back at Bat, by Dan Gutman; Pete the Cat: Play Ball! by James Dean

3rd: Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, by Deborah Hopkinson

4th: Rumble--Mighty Jackie, by Marissa Moss; Hart & Ahrens: Some Kind of Courage, by Dan Gemeinhart

5th: Summer reading list for 6th grade; Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer; copy poems or choose poetry books for Poem in Your Pocket next week

April 17, 2017

4/17/2017

K: The Cloud Spinner, by Michael Catchpool

1st: A portion of Earth Day, by Linda Lowery; Pond, by Jim LaMarche

2nd: A portion of Earth Day, by Linda Lowery; Green City, by Allan Drummond

DHH: The Eye of the Whale: A Rescue Story, by Jennifer O’Connell; Wild Ideas, by Elin Kelsey

3rd: Galapagos George, by Jean Craighead George

4th: Hart & Ahrens: Some Kind of Courage, by Dan Gemeinhart; Rumble only: The Promise, by Nicola Davies

5th: Common Ground, by Molly Bang; OR Here Comes the Garbage Barge, by Jonah Winter, with film at http://www.rednosestudio.com/books-1/#/here-comes-the-garbage-barge/

April 3, 2017

4/13/2017

K: Vanderpool/Schneck & Ellis: Amazing Eggs, by Fran Hodgkins, AND An Extraordinary Egg, by Leo Lionni; Schepis: When Dinosaurs Came with Everything, by Elise Broach; T Is for Terrible, by Peter McCarty

1st: not seen due to renovation

2nd: Immigration & biography--Strong Man, by Megan McCarthy; Odd Boy Out, by Don Brown

DHH: Bunnies (as requested)--Big Mean Mike, by Michelle Knudsen; Muncha Muncha Muncha, by Candace Fleming

3rd: Pete and Pickles, by Berkeley Breathed (for character and for “story mountain”); vote on Cook Prize
4th: Some Kind of Courage, by Dan Gemeinhart

5th: Rios: The Good Lion, by Don Brown, based on Beryl Markham’s memoir; Gralnik: “Oscar and Alphonse,” in Chronicles of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg

March 27, 2017

3/27/2017

K: When Dinosaurs Came with Everything, by Elise Broach; T Is for Terrible, by Peter McCarty

1st: The Honeybee Man, by Lela Nargi

DHH: The Honeybee Man, by Lela Nargi; Ruby in Her Own Time, by Jonathan Emmett; T Is for Terrible, by Peter McCarty

2nd: The Honeybee Man, by Lela Nargi

3rd: Cook Prize nominee: Follow the Moon Home, by Deborah Hopkinson and Philippe Cousteau

4th: Some Kind of Courage, by Dan Gemeinhart

5th: Rios only--I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark, by Debbie Levy