No school Monday, January 17: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

DK (Ellis only): Vote on the CYRM nominees; then, Millie Waits for the Mail, by Alexander Steffensmeier (the 2010 CYRM winner); if time, The Giant Hug, by Sandra Horning
K: Duck, by Randy Cecil, for classes that did not hear it last week; Martina, The Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, by Carmen Agra Deedy, for classes that had time for both books last week
1st: Duck, by Randy Cecil, for classes that did not hear it last week; Martina, The Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, by Carmen Agra Deedy, for classes that had time for both books last week
2nd: Duck, by Randy Cecil, for classes that did not hear it last week; Martina, The Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, by Carmen Agra Deedy, for classes that had time for both books last week
3rd: Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems, by Joyce Sidman
4th: Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, by Gene Barretta; OR How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning, by Rosalyn Schanzer 
5th: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, by Laban Carrick Hill

This week's links:

Joyce Sidman, poet, reads aloud from "Song of the Water Boatman" (3rd grade: poetry)
http://www.joycesidman.com/Listen.html

Kid Inventors Day

DK: A Visitor for Bear, by Bonny Becker; Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie: A Revolting Rhyme, by Judy Sierra; Duck, by Randy Cecil
K: A Visitor for Bear, by Bonny Becker
1st: A Visitor for Bear, by Bonny Becker
2nd: A Visitor for Bear, by Bonny Becker
3rd: John, Paul, George & Ben, by Lane Smith; review nominees and vote
4th: John, Paul, George & Ben, by Lane Smith; review nominees and vote
5th: John, Paul, George & Ben, by Lane Smith; review nominees and vote

Students in grades 3, 4, and 5 will be voting for their favorite of the nominees for the California Young Reader Medal in the category Picture Book for Older Readers. These are the nominees:

The Moon Over Star, by Dianna Hutts Aston, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Four Feet, Two Sandals, by Karen Lynn Williams and Kadhra Mohammed, illustrated by Doug Chayka

John, Paul, George & Ben, written and illustrated by Lane Smith