October 10 to 15, 2011

Fire Prevention Week, 10/9-10/15; Columbus Day, 10/11; World Food Day, October 16

DK: The Apple Pie Tree, by Zoe Hall; Aaaarrgghh! Spider! by Lydia Monks; Pumpkin Heads, by Wendell Minor; Ghosts in the House, by Kazuno Kohara

K: Fire Prevention Week--"Fire Prevention" on BrainPOP Jr.; Girl Scouts "One Warm Coat" drive--Joseph Had Little Overcoat, by Simms Taback

1st: Fire Prevention Week--The Fire Cat, by Esther Averill

2nd: "Bob the Alien Discovers the Dewey Decimal System" video; library map

3rd: Library map exercise

4th: How I Learned Geography, by Uri Shulevitz; look at library map PowerPoint 

5th: First Garden, for World Food Day; look at library map PowerPoint


This week's links:

Fire Prevention Week:
National Fire Protection Association
For fire safety for kids, www.sparky.org
Use your map skills to create your own Home Fire Escape Plan


K: BrainPOP

2nd: Bob the Alien Discovers the Dewey Decimal System 

5th: World Food Day (international) & World Food Day USA

Aaaarrgghh! Spider! by Lydia Monks (E MON)

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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by Simms Taback (E TAB)

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How I Learned Geography, by Uri Shulevitz (E SHU)

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