Category: Passover

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)

April 18 to 22, 2011

4/17/2011

DK: The Matzah Man, by Naomi Howland; What the Sea Saw, by Stephanie St. Pierre; The Umbrella, by Jan Brett, OR Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do you See? by Bill Martin, Jr., OR Max’s Chocolate Chicken, by Rosemary Wells

K: Cannon & Schnek/Freeman--All the Way to the Ocean, by Joel Harper; Vanderpool & Vavao--The World That We Want, by Kim Michelle Toft

1st: Syverson, Hicks, Harding--The World That We Want, by Kim Michelle Toft; Price, a visit from the Roundhouse aquarium

2nd: Fletcher & Smith--The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau, by Dan Yacarino; Moriyama--no time for a read-aloud; Barney, a visit from the Roundhouse aquarium

3rd, 4th, 5th: Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter; Rumble and Moreno, a visit from the Roundhouse aquarium; Warner & Ahrens--review of Using Guide Words in reference works

This week's links:

The Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab and Aquarium

The Cousteau Society (2nd)

About the making of the illustrations for Here Comes the Garbage Barge (3rd, 4th, 5th)

What the Sea Saw, by Stephanie St. Pierre

The World That We Want, by Kim Michelle Toft

Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter

March 26 to 30, 2012

April 18 to 22, 2011

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