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Read-Alouds and Presentations Week to Week by Grade Level

1/31/2022

 

Week of January 31, 2022 | All Grades | Happy Lunar New Year!

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Happy Lunar New Year of the Tiger! Thank you to Linda Kirton for decorating the library hall with festive streamers and educational posters! Thank you to Charlotte Kirton for letting the library and makerspace borrow the LEGO set depicting new year traditions!
PowerPoint prepared by Linda and Charlotte explaining the traditions. 

Week of January 31, 2022 | TK & Kindergarten
Getting Ready for the 100th Day of School

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The Very Kind Rich Lady and Her One Hundred Dogs, by Chinlun Lee
The very kind rich lady cares for 100 lucky dogs!
Video The Very Kind Rich Lady and her One Hundred Dogs presented by Elke Linde
Video Zero the Hero by Joan Holub book trailer  
He's not a Froot Loop, a bagel or a doughnut... he's Zero the Hero!
Video How Krispy Kreme doughnuts are made 
Speaking of doughnuts, let's find out how doughnuts are made at Krispy Kreme.
Video Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller read by Chris O'Dowd 
Arnie much more than an average doughnut, round, iced and deliciously sprinkled.

Crafty Connection Dog name coloring sheet

Week of January 31, 2022 | First Grade
Black History is American History | Spreading Kindness

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Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story, by Ruby Bridges
In 1960 Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954) became a pioneer in school integration at the age of six, when she was chosen to spend her first-grade year in what had formerly been an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Video Ruby Bridges read by Sankofa
Video Segment First Day of School Discovery Education Streaming Video (password protected)
What was it like for young Ruby that first day? Ruby speaks about the angry crowds she saw, a US Marshall talks about Ruby's bravery, and her teacher speaks about the anger of the crowds outside.
Crafty Connection Students are encouraged paint a Kindness Rock and leave it where others may see it in their neighborhood. Here are some ideas for messages of kindness and encouragement.

​Coloring Sheet Have courage and be kind

Week of January 31, 2022 | Second Grade
Black History is American History | Spreading Kindness
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Rosa Parks, by Lisbeth Kaiser
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A brief biography of Rosa Parks (1913-2005), civil rights activist.
Rosa Parks Rosa Parks, read by Read Aloud for Kids

Video Segment Rosa Parks Discovery Education Streaming Video (password protected)
Identifies civil rights activist Rosa Parks and describes her role in the movement.
​Crafty Connection Students are encouraged paint a Kindness Rock and leave it where others may see it in their neighborhood. Here are some ideas for messages of kindness and encouragement.

​Coloring Sheet Have courage and be kind

Week of January 31, 2022 | Third Grade
Black History is American History | Spreading Kindness

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White Socks Only, by Evelyn Coleman
Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi, and how her naive assumption about a sign earned her a whipping from an angry man.
Video White Socks Only read by Amber Rose Tamblyn

The Other Side, by Jacqueline Woodson
Though a literal and figurative fence segregates a town, two girls find a way to overcome the separation and become playmates at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era.
Video The Other Side read by Katherine Detrick

Crafty Connection Students are encouraged paint a Kindness Rock and leave it where others may see it in their neighborhood. Here are some ideas for messages of kindness and encouragement.
​Coloring Sheet Have courage and be kind

Week of January 31, 2022 | Fourth Grade
Black History is American History | Spreading Kindness

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Light in the Darkness, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.

Words Set Me Free, by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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A biography of the early life of Frederick Douglass, one of the first leaders of the antislavery movement. Discusses how he spent his childhood as a slave on a plantation, was sold at the age of eight to Hugh and Sophia Auld in Baltimore, and explains that learning to read was the key to his freedom.
Video Words Set Me Free read by Sankofa Read Aloud 
Video Past Present: Giving Stories New Life An interview with author Lesa Cline-Ransome (3 min)

Crafty Connection Students are encouraged paint a Kindness Rock and leave it where others may see it in their neighborhood. Here are some ideas for messages of kindness and encouragement.
​Coloring Sheet Have courage and be kind

Week of January 31, 2022 | Fifth Grade
Black History is American History | Spreading Kindness

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Henry's Freedom Box, by Ellen Levine
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave (c1815-1897) escaped to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate to Philadelphia.
Video Henry's Freedom Box ready by The Teacher's Library
Henry Climbs a Mountain, by D.B. Johnson

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), refused to pay taxes to a state that allowed slavery and was arrested in 1846. The endnote explains that Thoreau assisted slaves in fleeing to Canada, and that both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were inspired by Thoreau's writings about peaceful civil disobedience.
Video Henry Climbs a Mountain read by Rev. Kelly 

Video Woolworth's Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Civil Rights activists Joseph McNeil, Diane Nash, and John Lewis reflect on the history and legacy of the lunch counter from the F.W. Woolworth department store in North Carolina, and the sit-in campaign that began on February 1, 1960, Their peaceful protest inspired other people to organize throughout the south.
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
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Four young men who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of peaceful protest and dared to sit at a "whites only" lunch counter.
Video Sit-In read by Grace Bolin
Video Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney discuss creating Sin-In 
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Crafty Connection Students are encouraged paint a Kindness Rock and leave it where others may see it in their neighborhood. Here are some ideas for messages of kindness and encouragement.
​Coloring Sheet Have courage and be kind​

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