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October 26, 2020

10/25/2020

Theme: Halloween stories
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TK & K: Room on the Broom, by Julia Donaldson

1st: The Little Scarecrow Boy, by Margaret Wise Brown; I Want to Be in a Scary Story, by Sean Taylor

2nd: Cinderella Skeleton, by Robert San Souci; Skulls, by Blair Thornburgh

DHH: Skulls, by Blair Thornburgh; Ghosts in the House, by Kazuno Koharo; Excuse Me, Are You a Witch? by Emily Horn

3rd: The Bake Shop Ghost, by Jacqueline Ogburn

4th: The Witch’s Broom, by Chris Van Allsburg; “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” from Fantasia (1940)
https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-apprentice-fantasia-4ea9ebc01a74ea59a5867853

5th: The Wolves in the Walls, by Neil Gaiman; Instructions, by Neil Gaiman, read by him in the video below

A short film based on The Bake Shop Ghost, this week's 3rd-grade readaloud. Thnaks, Mr. Warner, for finding this!

Video content to accompany The Wolves in the Walls, this week's 5th-grade readaloud.

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October 19, 2020

10/16/2020

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Themes: Owls, Signs, and Voting
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TK: Sam and the Firefly, by P. D. Eastman; Good Night, Owl, by Greg Pizzoli

K: The Signmaker’s Assistant, by Tedd Arnold; Red Light, Green Light, by Margaret Wise Brown; “Sign Song” video

1st: The Signmaker’s Assistant, by Tedd Arnold; “Sign Song” ” video; Duck for President, by Doreen Cronin

2nd: President of the Jungle, by Andrés Rodrigues; “Vote with Benji” video

DHH: Little Boo, by Stephen Wunderli; “A Pumpkin’s Life” video

3rd: I Voted, by Marc Shulman; President of the Jungle, by Andrés Rodrigues;

4th: The Voice that Won the Vote: How One Woman’s Words Made History, by Elisa Boxer

5th: Fight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote, by Barb Rosenstock; “The Historic 1913 Women’s Suffrage March on Washington, D.C.” video

VOTE WITH BENJI from Will Rose on Vimeo.

To accompany Fight of the Century, for grade 5, from TED ED.

Members of the Congressional Union holding part of an 18,000-foot petition in support of voting rights for women. Source: Mapping American Social Movements Project.

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October 12, 2020

10/11/2020

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October 12, 2020, is Columbus Day and (in 14 states) Indigenous People's Day
October 14, 2020, is Indigenous People’s Day in California
October 16, 2020, is World Food Day

Themes: Indigenous People and World Food Day

For more related books, visit the American Indian Library Association website
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TK: Seaver the Weaver, by Paul Czajak; Little Boo, by Stephen Wunderli

K, 1st: Bread, Bread, Bread, by Ann Morris; “Meet the Author of Fry Bread” on TeachingBooks.net; Fry Bread, by Kevin Noble Maillard

2nd: Native Land interactive map; Bowwow Powwow. by Brenda J. Child; Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith; “Pow Wow Women’s Jingle Dress Dance” video

DHH: Little Boo, by Stephen Wunderli

3rd: Her Seven Brothers, by Paul Goble; We Are Grateful, by Traci Sorell

4th: Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street, by Roni Schotter; Ideas Are All Around, by Philip C. Stead

5th: Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story, by Joseph Bruchac; Audio Name Pronunciation on TeachingBooks. net; Chester Nez on Library of Congress Veterans History Project

Jingle dress dance filmed at George Gordon First Nation annual powwow

A Pumpkin's Life, by Jon Fletcher

Otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah), sung by the Cherokee National Youth Choir

Native Land (https://native-land.ca/) is an interactive mapping tool that shows the location of indigenous cultures. I found it fascinating and very much a corrective to my understanding of the history of places encompassed by the United States and other political entities. Be sure to take a look at the Teacher's Guide, which includes this caveat:

Maps potentially function as colonial artifacts and represent a very particular way of seeing the world – a way primarily concerned with ownership, exclusivity, and power relations.

As I said, Native Land gave me a lot to think about.

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October 5, 2020

10/3/2020

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Themes:
Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15) and Fire Prevention Week (October 4 to 10, 2020)
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TK: Tortuga in Trouble, by Ann Whitford Paul; A Tree Is Nice, by Janice May Udry

K: The Fire Cat, by Esther Averill (with video below)

1st: I Pledge Allegiance, by Pat Mora and Libby Martinez (with video below); Tortuga in Trouble, by Ann Whitford Paul

2nd: Firefighters’ Handbook, by Meghan McCarthy

DHH: A Tree Is Nice, by Janice May Udry

3rd: Apples to Oregon, by Deborah Hopkinson; Borreguita and the Coyote, by Verna Aardema

4th: Love and Roast Chicken, by Barbara Knutson; Imagine, by Juan Felipe Herrera (with video below)

5th: “One Hot Mess,” by Carmen Agra Deedy; Imagine, by Juan Felipe Herrera (with video below)

Video about Flame, a real firehouse cat!

Children's citizenship ceremony, July 2017, video by Minnesota Children's Museum

Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, reads Imagine

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