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Read-alouds and Presentations Week-to-Week by Grade Level

9/30/2019

 

Grand View Sports Ball Drive
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Public Library Bookmark Contest
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Week of September 30, 2019 - TK
​Spiders

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Aaaarrgghh! by Lydia Monks
A clever spider is lonely and longs to become a family pet!
Song There's a Spider On the Floor, On the Floor with spider rings
Extend Natural History Museum Spider Pavilion Open September 15 to December 1 
Activity Draw spider bookmarks

Week of September 30, 2019 - Kindergarten
​Spiders

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The Very Busy Spider, by Eric Carle
The farm animals try to divert a spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness.
Song There's a Spider On the Floor, On the Floor
Extend Natural History Museum Spider Pavilion Open September 15 to December 1 
Activity 
The Very Busy Spider coloring sheet 

Week of September 30, 2019 - First Grade
​Scarecrows

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The Little Scarecrow Boy, by Margaret Wise Brown
Early one morning, a little scarecrow whose father warns him that he is not fierce enough to frighten a crow goes out into the cornfield alone.
Activity Scarecrow coloring sheet 

Video Segment Intelligent Crow YouTube.
Clever Crow, by Cynthia DeFelice
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Emma outwits a crafty crow, but the wily bird (who just can't resist shiny objects) tricks her right back!
Video Segment A playful crow uses a plastic lid to slide down a snowy roof YouTube.
Activity Make bookmarks with stir sticks and aluminum foil.

Extend Natural History Museum Spider Pavilion Open September 15 to December 1

Week of September 30, 2019 - Second Grade
Monsters

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When a Monster is Born, by Sean Taylor
What happens when the monster comes to school, eats the principal, wanders into town, and falls in love? He becomes the parent of a baby monster, who may grow up to be an under-your-bed monster in this circular tale of possibilities.
Quit Calling Me a Monster! by Jory John
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A little monster resents being labeled as a monster.

Activity Trace hand print bookmarks from monster-green paper. Embellish with pointy fingernails before cutting out.
Extend Natural History Museum Spider Pavilion Open September 15 to December 1

Week of September 30, 2019 - Third Grade
​Reading for Information with Spiders & Information Literacy

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Spinning Spiders, by Melvin Berger
Describes the characteristics of spiders and the methods they use to trap their prey in webs.
I'm Trying to Love Spiders, by Bethany Barton
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A humorous introduction to spiders.
The Hugely-Wugely Spider, by Ethan T. Berlin

A huge spider tries to climb up the water spout like all the small spiders.
At Home Activity String figures such as Running Dog 
​Extend The Natural History Museum Spider Pavilion 9/16-11/25 

Show What You Know Quiz Part 2: The Dewey Decimal System This online worksheet will allow students to demonstrate a basic understanding of how to look up materials and locate them in the library.

Week of September 30, 2019 - Fourth Grade
​The Sinister Side of Reading

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The Ink Drinker, by Eric Sanvoisin
A strange breed of vampire sucks the black blood of literature and changes a book-hating boy...forever.
The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury
When Pipkin becomes ill and is whisked away into the mysterious darkness of the Halloween tree, his friends must race through space and time to save him. With a peculiar old man named Moundshroud to guide them, the kids encounter the earlier manifestations of the holiday known as Halloween. Shown in three parts (total run time 1 hour 10 minutes). Today, view trailer (running time about 3 minutes).

Week of September 30, 2019 - Fifth Grade
Response to Literature Journals with Cursive Practice

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My Hippie Grandmother, by Reeve Lindbergh
Flower Power Forever! A tie-dyed grandmother has a cat named Woodstock, a guitar-strumming boyfriend, an organic garden, and a very proud granddaughter in this ode to free spirits of all generations.
Schooled, by Gordon Korman
Although he knows a lot about Zen Buddhism, nothing has prepared home schooled Capricorn Anderson for an A-list bully, a popular girl, and middle school politics. The shifting points of view capture a pitch-perfect "fish out of water" story.
Video Schooled book trailer
YouTube Improving Your Cursive Handwriting
Activity Students journal responses to writing prompts about Schooled will be written in cursive.
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