Category: Baseball

May 19, 2014

5/17/2014

TK: Reading Around the World--Anatole, by Eve Titus; A Bicycle for Rosaura, by Daniel Barbot; We All Went on Safari, by Laurie Krebs; and Yoko, by Rosemary Wells

K: Bird, Butterfly, and Eel, by James Prosek; Gotta Go! by Sam Swope

1st: Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly, by Alan Madison

2nd: The Babe and I, by David Adler

3rd: Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates, by Jonah Winter

4th: Gralnik and Rumble, finish Locomotive, by Brian Floca; Hart, continue When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead

5th: Warner, finish Locomotive, by Brian Floca; Ahrens and Curry, Coolies, by Yin

May 28 to June 1, 2012

5/29/2012

May 28, Memorial day observed

DK: Travel and home--Baby Brains, by Simon James; The Great Blue House, by Kate Banks; 999 Tadpoles, by Ken Kimura; Below, by Nina Crews

K and 1st: Summer reading--Randy Riley's Really Big Hit, by Chris Van Dusen; AND Press Here, by Herve Tullet

2nd: Summer reading--SHOW The Invisible Inkling, by Emily Jenkins; Who Was…? series; READ, to Fletcher, Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo DaVinci, by Gene Barretta; READ, to Barney, 11 Experiments That Failed, by Jenny Offill; READ to Smith, Encyclopedia Brown: The Case of Pablo's Nose, by Donald J. Sobol; Moriyama, finish The Legend of Spud Murphy, by Eoin Colfer

3rd: Summer reading--SHOW Pie, by Sara Weeks; Eleven, by Patricia Reilly Giff, with other CYRM nominees; Queen of the Falls, by Chris Van Allsburg; READ excerpt from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, by Frank Cottrell Boyce

4th: Summer reading--SHOW Queen of the Falls, by Chris Van Allsburg, and Dragonbreath, by Ursula Verne; and READ excerpt from Wonder, by R.J. Palacio;

5th: Curry only: For Harriet Tubman play, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford; not doing that this year? Then Lewis and Clark and Me, by Laurie Myers

March 26 to 30, 2012

3/25/2012

DK: Playing Right Field, by Willy Welch; Home Run, by Robert Burleigh; Mrs. Morgan's Lawn, by Barney Saltzburg; The Matzah Man: A Passover Story, by Naomi Howland

K: A Man for All Seasons: The Life of George Washington Carver, by Stephen Krensky

1st: Casey Back at Bat, by Dan Gutman

2nd: Girl Wonder: The Story of Alta Weiss, by Deborah Hopkinson

3rd: Satchell Paige: Don't Look Back, by David A. Adler; or Mighty Jackie, the Strike-out Queen, by Marissa Moss

4th: Darwin, by Alice B. McGinty

5th: The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, by Chris Barton

Links for this week

5th: How do fluorescence and Day-Glo colors work?

A Man for All Seasons: The Life of George Washington Carver, by Stephen Krensky (borrowed from the County of Los Angeles Public Library)

Darwin, by Alice B. McGinty (borrowed from the County of Los Angeles Public Library)

The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, by Chris Barton (borrowed from the County of Los Angeles Public Library)

March 19 to 23, 2012

3/19/2012

DK: Tools and simple machines--The Toolbox, by Anne & Harlow Rockwell; Handy Hank Will Fix It, by Anne Rockwell; The Handiest Things in the World, by Andrew Clements; OK GO video, "This Too Shall Pass"

K: Baseball--Roasted Peanuts, by Tim Egan

1st: Science Week and World Water Day--Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau, by Jennifer Berne

2nd: Science Week and World Water Day--Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau, by Jennifer Berne; OR Ask Albert Einstein, by Lynne Barasch

3rd: Science Week--The Planet Hunter: The Story Behind What Happened to Pluto, by Elizabeth Rusch

4th: Baseball--Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen, by Marissa Moss

5th: Queen of the Falls, by Chris Van Allsburg (again!)

This week's links:

DK: Music video for "This Too Shall Pass," by OK GO. Please note, not all content on YouTube is suitable for children.

1st & 2nd: World Water Day; also the interesting World Water Day game we did in library time, "How Much Water Is on Your Plate?"

3rd: Mike Brown's website

March 14 to 18, 2011

3/13/2011

DK: King Puck, by Michael Garland; Baseball Hour, by Carol Nevius; Casey Back at Bat, by Dan Gutman
K: King Puck, by Michael Garland
1st: Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Prisbrey, by Melissa Ethridge Slaymaker
2nd: Harp o’ Gold OR Traveling Tom and the Leprechaun, both by Teresa Bateman
3rd: Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein, by Don Brown (Hooper); The Babe and I, by David Adler (Hunt); Fiona’s Luck, by Teresa Bateman (Horowitz, Moreno)
4th: Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie’s Missing Brain, by Scott Nash, OR The Brain, by Seymour Simon; and internet brain resources
5th: The Brain, by Seymour Simon; excerpt from Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science, by John Fleischman; other print and internet resources about the brain

Links for this week:

Brain Awareness Week official site

Neuroscience for Kids
an extensive site related to the brain and neuroscience maintained by Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.

"BrainWorks," with Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D., on University of Washingon TV. This is a 28-minute video for children about the brain, including a demonstration by an anesthesiologist, demonstration of how an EEG is done, and a scientist explaining the parts of a human brain.

Nerve Signaling
shows how nerve cells work

GirlsGoTech
in particular "Mixed Messages," an online game illustrating the Stroop effect

Luminosity
features games to development memory and other brain functions (intended for adults)

King Puck, by Michael Garland (E GAR)

Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein, by Don Brown (92 EIN)

Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie's Missing Brain, by Scott Nash (E NAS)

March 7 to 11, 2011

3/6/2011

DK: Baseball Hour, by Carol Nevius; Dumpster Diver, by Janet S. Wong; Lights Out, by Arthur Geisert; OK GO, "This Too Shall Pass"
K: Roasted Peanuts, by Tim Egan
1st: Roasted Peanuts, by Tim Egan
2nd: Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning, by Laurence Anholt
3rd: The Babe and I, by David Adler; OR Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson, by Sharon Robinson; OR "Line Drive," by Tanya West, in Sports Shorts
4th: Hammerin' Hank: The Life of Hank Greenberg, by Yona Zeldis McDonough; OR Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki
5th: Independent Dames, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Roasted Peanuts, by Tim Egan (E EGA)

Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning, by Laurence Anholt (92 ANN)

Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki

May 19, 2014

May 28 to June 1, 2012

March 26 to 30, 2012

March 19 to 23, 2012

March 14 to 18, 2011

March 7 to 11, 2011

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