January 17 to 21, 2011

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

http://www.kidinventorsday.com/

"Quiz Your Noodle: Revolutionary Inventions" National Geographic for Kids game about inventions available during lunch this week (4th grade: inventions)
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/puzzlesquizzes/quizyournoodle-revolutionary-inventions/

"Who Is That?" FunBrain.com game about scientists available during lunch this week (4th grade: inventions)
http://www.funbrain.com/who/index.html

"Dave - I Made this Jar," Digital Traditions (5th grade: slavery)
http://www.digitaltraditions.net/html/D_R_Slides.cfm

Biographer Leonard Todd, author of Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of Slave Potter Dave
http://leonardtodd.com/carolina-clay_279.html