Category: Travel

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

May 21 to 25, 2012

5/21/2012

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DK: Summer activities: Sergio Makes a Splash, by Edel Rodriguez; A Crash Course for Milly, by Eva Eriksson; Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers; Artful Reading, by Chris Raczka

K: The Most Amazing Dinosaur, by James Stevens

1st: Aunt Luka's Quilt, by Georgia Guback

2nd: The Legend of Spud Murphy, by Eoin Colfer (chap. 5)

3rd: Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton, by Catherine Brighton

4th: Mack Made Movies, by Don Brown

5th: Warner & Ahrens: Nurse, Soldier, Spy, by Marissa Moss; Curry, Lewis and Clark and Me, by Laurie Myers

Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers (borrowed from the County of Los Angeles Public Library)

Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton, by Catherine Brighton (borrowed from the County of Los Angeles Public Library)

Mack Made Movies, by Don Brown (92 SEN)

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June 13 to 17, 2011

6/13/2011

DK: Bears and Cats!
Schepis: A Story for Bear, by Dennis Haseley; My Favorite Bear, by Andrea Gabriel; Drawing Lessons from a Bear, by David McPhail; Big Black Bear, by Herbert Wong Yee
Ellis: The Perfect Nest, by Catherine Friend; Francis, the Scaredy Cat, by Ed Boxall; Kitten’s First Full Moon, by Kevin Henkes; Where Is That Cat? by Carol Greene;

K: Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden, by Edith Pattou; AND Enemy Pie, by Derek Munson

1st: The Sea Serpent and Me, by Dashka Slater

2nd: Weslandia, by Paul Fleischman

3rd: Buoy, by Bruce Balan

4th: Two Bad Ants, by Chris Van Allsburg

5th: Curry--Sitting Bull Remembers, by Ann Turner; AND Tadpole’s Promise, by Jeanne Willis

May 31 to June 3, 2011

5/30/2011

DK: Terrific, by Jon Agee; To the Beach, by Linda Ashman; Below, by Nina Crews

K: Q Is for Duck, by Mary Elting and Michael Folsom

1st: Something to Tell the Grandcows, by Eileen Spinelli

2nd: The Gardener, by Sarah Stewart

3rd: Squirrel and John Muir, by Emily McCully

4th: John Muir, America’s Naturalist, by Thomas Locker, maybe with Thomas Locker’s first book, Where the River Begins; also "A Portrait of John Muir as a Young Man" video

5th: When Harriet Met Sojourner, by Catherine Clinton; OR A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth, by David A. Adler

This week's links:

Yosemite National Park (3rd, 4th)

New York Times, "Ansel Adams's Yosemite" photo gallery (3rd, 4th)

The Sierra Club: The John Muir Exhibit (3rd, 4th)

Sierra Club: The Best Internship on Earth, "A Portrait of John Muir as a Young Man" (3rd, 4th)

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May 28 to June 1, 2012

May 21 to 25, 2012

June 13 to 17, 2011

May 31 to June 3, 2011

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