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October 14, 2013

10/14/2013

October is National Bullying Prevention Month
Columbus Day is celebrated the second Monday in October
Hispanic Heritage Month concludes
October 16 is World Food Day

TK/K: Looking at characters in stories-- High-wire Henry, by Mary Calhoun; I Stink, by Jim and Katie McMullan; Not Norman, by Kelly Bennett; Farfallina and Marcel, by Holly Keller

K: Pumpkin Jack, by Will Hubbell; Pumpkin Heads, by Wendell Minor

1st: Hispanic Heritage Month--Nino Wrestles the World, by Yuyi Morales, and her website

2nd: Hispanic Heritage Month--The Quiet Place, by Sarah Stewart

3rd: Saving the Liberty Bell, by Megan McDonald; or The English Roses, by Madonna

4th: Figurative Language--Owl Moon, by Jane Yolen; or Apples to Oregon, by Deborah Hopkinson

5th: Finish Queen of the Falls, by Chris Van Allsburg

September 23, 2013

9/23/2013

DK: COUNTING
Let’s Count Goats! By Mem Fox; Russell the Sheep, by Rob Scotton; Centipede’s 100 Shoes, by Tony Ross; Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, by Eric Litwin, with song!

K: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
Tortuga in Trouble and Manana, Iguana, by Ann Whitford Paul

1st: Four Seasons Make a Year, by Anne Rockwell; Fall Mixed Up, by Bob Raczka

2nd: PLANT LIFE CYCLE
Nonfiction book on seeds: A Seed Is Sleepy, by Dianna Hutts Aston

3rd: Finish Dewey Decimal System PowerPoint, with “Dewey Rap”; also bookmarks!

4th: The Librarian of Basra, by Jeanette Winter—finish discussion, look at new Baghdad library on internet

5th: Finish Unspoken, by Henry Cole; talk briefly about Banned Books Week; revisit literary genres; choose new book report books

October 15, 2012

10/16/2012

DK: Spiders: Be Nice to Spiders, by Margaret Bloy Graham; Zoo Day Ole, by Phillis Gershator; Georgie, by Robert Bright; Zorro Gets an Outfit, by Carter Goodrich

K: Cannon: Ella the Elephant, by Carmela and Steven D’Amico; Schneck/Vanderpool and Vavao: Just a Minute, by Yuyi Morales

1st: How to Make Friends with a Giant, by Gennifer Choldenko; Poof! By Jon O’Brien

2nd: One Green Apple, by Eve Bunting; Oh No, George! By Chris Haughton

3rd: Horowitz: First Day in Grapes, by L. King Perez; Hooper, Moreno, Hunt: The English Roses, by Madonna

4th: Romines: Planting the Trees of Kenya, by Claire A. Nivola, for World Food Day, Tuesday, October 16 (play freerice.com all week in library); Rumble and Hart: Hispanic Heritage Month & World Food Day, Cactus Soup, by Eric Kimmel

5th: Warner: Cactus Soup, by Eric Kimmel; Ahrens and Curry: The Boy Who Loved Words, by Roni Schotter (dictionary, thesaurus); show Curry students “All About Explorers” webquest site

October 8, 2012

10/7/2012

DK/TK: It Could Still Be a Leaf, by Alan Fowler; Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, by Lois Ehlert; Leaves, by David Ezra Stein; Leaf Man, by Lois Ehlert; if extra time, look a look at the leaf page from Awesome Autumn, by Bruce Goldstone, or the leaf page from Autumn Leaves, by Ken Robbins

K: Tortuga in Trouble, by Ann Whitford Paul, for Hispanic Heritage Month and the five senses

1st: Lu and the Swamp Ghost, by James Carville

2nd: The Story of Z, by Jeanne Modesitt; alphabetizing activity

3rd: First Day in Grapes, by L. King Perez

4th: Planting the Trees of Kenya, by Claire A. Nivola, for World Food Day, Tuesday, October 16; play the grain of rice game at freerice.com

5th: Ahrens and Warner: The Boy Who Loved Words, by Roni Schotter (dictionary, thesaurus); Curry, research for explorer reports

September 26 to 30, 2011

9/25/2011

DK: That's What Friends Are For, by Valerie Gorbachev; Little Beaver and Echo, by Amy MacDonald; Big Al, by Andrew Clement; One, by Kathryn Otoshi
K: Applesauce Season, by Eden Ross Lipson
1st: On Earth, by G. Brian Karas
2nd: The Buzz on Bees: Why Are They Disappearing? by Shelley Rotner & Anne Woodhull
3rd: The Flag Maker, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
4th: Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, by Kathleen Krull
5th: Not coming due to shortened week

This week's links:

The Honeybee Project--"a crossroads of education, science, the arts, and technology all in service to children and the honeybee"

Meet Me at the Corner, "New York City Beekeeper"

Smithsonian, "The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag That Inspired the National Anthem"

Enchanted Learning, "Cesar Chavez: Labor Leader"

Applesauce Season, by Lipson (E LIP)

On Earth, by G. Brian Karas

The Buzz on Bees: Why Are They Disappearing? by Shelley Rotner & Anne Woodhull (borrowed from the County of Los Angeles Public Library)

The Flag Maker: by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez (92 CHA)

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