Theme: New books for a new year
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TK & K: Old Rock Is Not Boring, by Deb Pilutti
1st: If You Come to Earth, by Sophie Blackall
2nd: If You Come to Earth, by Sophie Blackall; AND/OR The Barnabus Project, by the Fan Brothers
DHH: Over and Under the Snow, by Kate Messner, with PowerPoint
3rd: If You Take Away the Otter, by Susannah Buhrman-Deever
4th: Balderdash! John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children’s Books, by Michelle Markel; see list of Newbery Medal winners and CYRM winners
5th: Gralnik only--Green City, by Allan Drummond
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TK & K: Old Rock Is Not Boring, by Deb Pilutti
1st: If You Come to Earth, by Sophie Blackall
2nd: If You Come to Earth, by Sophie Blackall; AND/OR The Barnabus Project, by the Fan Brothers
DHH: Over and Under the Snow, by Kate Messner, with PowerPoint
3rd: If You Take Away the Otter, by Susannah Buhrman-Deever
4th: Balderdash! John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children’s Books, by Michelle Markel; see list of Newbery Medal winners and CYRM winners
5th: Gralnik only--Green City, by Allan Drummond
For grade 3: "Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sea Otter Rescue Program." Take a look at the aquarium's many live-cams of otters, sharks, and many other creatures, as well as one of the open ocean.
Above, "Urchin Time-Lapse Eating Kelp" (use website link for better playback); below, a sea urchin's mouth.
Below, a quoin and quoin key, mentioned in Balderdash!
After being destroyed by a tornado in 2007, the town of Greensburg, Kansas, built back better, as described in Green City, by Allan Drummond.
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