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Read-alouds and Presentations Week to Week by Grade Level

2/24/2020

 

Week of February 24, 2020
​TK, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade
Rotary Club Volunteers Help Us Wish Dr. Seuss a Happy Birthday

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Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904-September 24, 1991)
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You find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
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Rotary Four Way Test
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Working to end Polio worldwide

Week of February 24, 2020
TK

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Ten Apples Up On Top!
by Dr. Seuss writing as Theo. LeSieg
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A lion, tiger, and dog are balancing ten apples on their heads when two irritable bears start to chase them.
Activity Cat in the Hat coloring sheet 

Website Seussville

Week of February 24, 2020
​Kindergarten

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I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading.
Activity Cat in the Hat coloring sheet
Website Seussville

Week of February 24, 2020
​First Grade

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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, by Dr. Seuss
Marco struggles to report truthfully to his father the events of his day, rather than embellish the dull sights in order to make for a more exciting tale. Published in 1937, this first book for children by Dr. Seuss was rejected by 27 publishers before being accepted by Vanguard Press.
Video 4-year-old on the importance of reading
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Activity Create your Dr. Seuss name Students experiment with their names to create their own pseudonyms: Doctor + Middle Name.
Website Seussville

Week of February 24, 2020
Second Grade

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Wild About Books, by Judy Sierra
In this celebration of the literary life, librarian Molly McGrew drives her bookmobile into the zoo, and then the fun begins! The animals draw close to listen to a Dr. Seuss story, and once they "learn all about this new something called reading," they try creating their very own stories.
Video 4-year-old on the importance of reading
Activity Create your Dr. Seuss name Students experiment with their names to create their own pseudonyms: Doctor + Middle Name and 
Abbreviation of First Name + Last Name spelled backwards.

Website Seussville

Week of February 24, 2020 - Third Grade
​Black History Month and Narrative Nonfiction

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Farm Boy circa 1940,
(top right). Library of Congress, Bound for Glory exhibit
Tenant Farmhouse, Poplar Grove Plantation, North Carolina
(bottom right). Library of Congress, Bound for Glory exhibit
Mr. Williams,
 by Karen Barbour
"I was good at making my rows straight." Born the same year as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. Williams lived simply, sometimes facing the harsh reality of racism in the South. This understated biography drives home that though most of us will not grow up to be famous, we can live our lives with dignity.

Week of February 24, 2020 - Fourth and Fifth Grade
California Young Reader Medal - Picture Book for Older Readers

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California Young Reader Medal About
Lillian's Right to Vote: a Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, by Jonah Winter
An elderly woman stands at the bottom of a steep hill, determined to walk to the top to cast her vote. As she climbs she recalls significant people and events that have led her to this day: her great-great-grandparents being sold at a slave auction, her great-grandpa picking cotton, her uncle failing unfair voting registration tests, her parents being deterred from the polls, cross burnings, civil rights marches, and, finally, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. An afterword details the story's inspiration -- African American Lillian Allen, who voted in 2008 at age 100 -- and notes how the 1965 Voting Rights Act has been diminished by a 2013 Supreme Court decision.

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

11/11/2019

 

Week of November 11, 2019 - TK and Kindergarten
​Picture Book Month & Silliness with Seasonal Veggies 

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I Yam a Donkey! by Cece Bell
A stern yam corrects a grammatically-challenged donkey.
Activity Draw a yam bookmark on orange construction paper.

Week of November 11, 2019 - First Grade
Picture Book Month & Feasting Season Silliness

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The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, by Mac Barnett
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When a mouse is swallowed by a wolf, he learns that a duck devoured earlier has set up a table to enjoy the food the gluttonous predator eats.
Activity Rainbow food choices coloring sheet

Week of November 11, 2019 - Second Grade
​Picture Book Month & National Monuments

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Video Washington, D.C., tour 
One More Acorn, by Don Freeman
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As winter nears, Earl the Squirrel searches for the acorns he stashed in the parks of Washington, D.C. Iconic author/illustrator Don Freeman began this story in 1963. His son completed it with help from an illustrator almost 50 years later.
Activity Make leaf rubbings on the reverse of the Find the Alligator coloring sheet and demonstrate how students can collect leaves at home and tape them into a leaf book for safekeeping.

Week of November 11, 2019 - Third Grade
​Picture Book Month - Curriculum Connection to Mystery Fiction

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Private I. Guana: the Case of the Missing Chameleon, by Nina Laden Storyline Online
A detective is hired to search the forest for a missing chameleon. Read by actor Esai Morales (8 min.)
Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea
It's not the crime... it's the cover-up! Reuben the bear discovers that his pants are wet and explodes in furious accusations. Readers will conclude that compassion is no accident.

Week of November 11, 2019 - Fourth Grade
Picture Book Month - Curriculum Connection to Reading Nonfiction 

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Odd Boy Out, by Don Brown
Albert was a peculiar baby with a big head. When he was older he hit his sister, bothered his teachers, and didn't have many friends. In the midst of all this, he was fascinated with solving puzzles and scientific problems. The ideas Albert Einstein (1879-1955) came up with during his childhood as an odd boy were destined to change what we understand about the world around us.
Video N Is a Number: a Portrait of Paul Erdos (trailer)

The Boy Who Loved Math, by Deborah Heiligman
At the age of four Paul Erdos (1913-1996) could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn to butter his own bread until he turned twenty!
Website A Magical Answer to an 80-Year-Old Puzzle. Terence Tao, now a math professor at UCLA, was a youngster when he met Erdos.
Having an Erdos Number Paul Erdos published papers with 507 coauthors. In the mathematics community those 507 people have the coveted distinction of having an Erdos number of 1, meaning that they wrote a paper with Erdos himself. Someone who published a paper with one of his coauthors is said to have an Erdos number of 2, and an Erdos number of 3 means that someone wrote a paper with someone who wrote a paper with someone who worked with Erdos. Albert Einstein’s Erdos number was 2. The highest known Erdos number is 15; this excludes non mathematicians, who all have an Erdos number of infinity.
Website Paul Erdos International Math Challenge
At Home Activity Tessellation art with worksheet and video demonstration.

Week of November 11, 2019 - Fifth Grade
Picture Book Month & Response to Literature

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Duckworth the Difficult Child, by Michael Sussman
A cautionary tale for troublesome children comically turns the tables to target inept parents instead. 
Video Schooled book trailer
​Schooled, by Gordon Korman
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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.
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Activity Journal responses to writing prompts about Schooled will be written in cursive. Why Writing by Hand Could Make You Smarter, by William R. Klemm, Ph.D., Psychology Today, posted March 14, 2013
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