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Read-Alouds and Presentations Week to Week by Grade Level

12/5/2022

 

Week of December 5, 2022 | TK | Friendship Fun in Winter

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Penguin and Pinecone, by Salina Yoon
Penguin finds a lost pinecone one day and an unlikely friendship blooms. Penguin discovers that love conquers distance and friendship grows stronger over time in this story of love and acceptance.

Close Reading Questions
1. Do the penguins love the forest? How can you tell?
2. Why do you think Pinecone dropped a pinecone in Penguin's sled?
3. Who do you think dropped the pinecone that penguin found on the first page? Why was it important to the story? Find the page(s) or text that supports your answer.

Crafty Connection Decorate pre-folded pine-tree-with-scarf bookmarks demonstration video

​Week of December 5, 2022 | Kindergarten | Winter Wishes

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Snow Dance, by Lezlie Evans
Two sisters perform a dance to make it snow and when it snows all through the night they bundle up and head outside for a busy day of angel making, snowball fights, and sledding.

Snow Dance Rituals They vary from person to person, but besides dancing, common snow dance rituals include sleeping with a spoon under your pillow, flushing ice cubes down the toilet, putting a white crayon in the freezer, or wearing your pajamas inside out and backwards.


Crafty Connection Experiment drawing with chalk and ice cubes on construction paper 

At-Home Crafty Connection Snow Dance coloring sheet has a link to instructions to make "snow" using simple household ingredients 

Week of December 5, 2022 | First Grade
Curriculum Connection: Step-by-Step How-to Writing Style

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How to Bicycle to the Moon and Plant Sunflowers, by Mordecai Gerstein
A whimsical guide for aspiring young space travelers shares step-by-step instructions for using a bicycle, a garden hose, a large slingshot and a borrowed space suit to travel to the moon.

​Crafty Connection Sunflower coloring sheet 

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How to Give Your Cat a Bath, by Nicola Winstanley
A little girl and her kitty make an escalating mess while respectively trying to follow and resist the cat-bathing instructions of a narrator who oversimplifies the process.

Video Cats that love baths 

Crafty Connection Cat bookmarks coloring sheet

Week of December 5, 2022 | Second Grade | Winter Friends

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Ant and Honey Bee, a Pair of Friends in Winter, by Megan McDonald
Brrrr! The leaves are off the trees, and frost is on the ground. It's time for bugs to hunker down and hide out for the winter. But Ant isn't ready to hunker down. Will Honey Bee welcome an interruption of her peace and quiet? (Chapter 2 of 3)

Please Don't Eat Me, by Liz Cimo

A bunny negotiates with a bear to avoid becoming lunch.

Extension While ants burrow underground or behind tree bark to wait out cold weather, bees form a cluster to keep the queen bee safely warm. More info

Crafty Connection Bear and bunny friendship coloring sheet

​Week of December 5, 2022 | Third Grade
Curriculum Connection: Reading Nonfiction

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Time Zones, by David A. Adler
Mathematics and geography are combined with simple language to introduce the concept of time zones.

Video Time zones for kids 

Crafty Connection Paper watch/bracelet with memo pad

​Week of December 5, 2022 | Fourth Grade
Curriculum Connection: Reading Nonfiction and Growth Mindset

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Video Slinky television commercial 1962

The Marvelous Thing that Came from a Spring, by Gilbert Ford
The toy was conceived during WWII, when an engineer noticed a spring he'd been working on could "walk" from a shelf. It gained momentum as a pop culture icon when his wife named the toy and marketed it.

Video Hear the story read by Kendra Helsel. The close up page views allow readers to notice the detailed illustrations featuring engineering tools and classic toys, such as using a twisted pipe cleaner to represent steam from a coffee cup!

Video Human Slinky

Crafty Connection Make a paper slinky following these video directions

Week of December 5, 2022 | Fifth Grade
Curriculum Connection: Reading Nonfiction and Social Justice

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Lizzie Magie (1866-1948)
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Charles Darrow (1889-1967)
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Pass Go and Collect $200, the Real Story of How Monopoly was Invented, by Tanya Lee Stone
Monopoly's success as a board game boils down to the ideas and innovations of two individuals: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie (1866-1948) and Charles Darrow (1889-1967) -- but they weren't working together. Magie, a feisty woman who cared about social justice, created the Landlord's Game in 1903, hoping to educate the public about unfair practices within the real estate market. Roughly 30 years later, Darrow played an iteration of Magie's game and saw room for improvement -- and an opportunity to make money. He skillfully marketed his polished version of the game, calling it Monopoly.

Did You Know? These days, there are more than 300 versions of Monopoly including Star Wars, Pokemon and even Manhattan Beach, featuring the Manhattan Beach Pier, Shade Hotel, Polliwog Park, and the Kettle and more local landmarks.

Read-Alouds and Presentations Week to Week by Grade Level

11/28/2022

 

Week of November 28, 2022 | TK | Bundle Up in Winter

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Video Segment Animal Behavior (Owl Cam)
Discovery Education Streaming Video (password protected)


Owl Babies, by Martin Waddell
Video Owl Babies picture book animation
Three baby owls worry when they awaken one night to find their mother gone.

Little Owl's Orange Scarf, by Tatyana Feeney
Little Owl does not like his new orange scarf! Can he and his mom come up with a solution on how he can stay warm?
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Crafty Connection Look closely at Little Owl. Do you see how the strokes used in the illustration could be the shapes of letters? Draw Little Owl and his scarf on bookmark-sized paper.

Week of November 28, 2022 | Kindergarten | Winter Playtime

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Live Video The Manhattan Beach Pier

Recess at 20 Below, by Cindy Lou Aillaud
How cold does it have to be before Alaskan kids stay inside for recess? For many schools, if it is colder than 20 below zero, they stay indoors; otherwise, it's outside for frosty fun! ​​Compare and contrast with Grand View Kindergarten playground (center field at far right).

Video Putting on Snow Clothes First graders show how quickly they can put on their snow clothes all by themselves. Get out several layers of outerwear and see how fast you can put the items on!
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Crafty Connection Snowmen coloring sheet

Week of November 28, 2022 | First Grade | Winter Weather

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Live Video The Manhattan Beach Pier
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The Blizzard of 1978
New England was hit by a nor'easter with hurricane-force winds approximately 86 mph with gusts up to 111 mph. A typical nor'easter brings steady snow for six to twelve hours, the Blizzard of '78 brought heavy snow for a full 33 hours. 

Blizzard, by John Rocco
After a massive blizzard, a boy becomes a hero when he manages to walk to the local store and bring supplies back to his neighborhood which has been snowed in for days. Based on the author's childhood experience. Compare and contrast this experience with a typical Southern California winter.
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Crafty Connections Enjoy this snowmen coloring sheet or make a simple snow globe 
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Week of November 28, 2022 | Second Grade | Winter Fun

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Ant and Honey Bee, a Pair of Friends in Winter, by Megan McDonald
Brrrr! The leaves are off the trees, and frost is on the ground. It's time for bugs to hunker down and hide out for the winter. But Ant isn't ready to hunker down. Will Honey Bee welcome an interruption of her peace and quiet? (Chapter 1 of 3)

Lemonade in Winter, a Book About Kids Counting Money, by Emily Jenkins
Despite snow on the ground, icicles on window sills, and discouraging words from their parents, Pauline and her little brother, John-John, decide to open a lemonade stand.
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Connection What do you do differently when the weather turns colder?

Video Extremely Epic Blanket Fort
Fun Stuff Honey Bears Coloring Sheet and Busy as a Bee Activity Sheet 

Week of November 28, 2022 | Third Grade | Elements of Mystery

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Elements of Mystery A mystery is a story about a secret or something that is not easily explained. The elements of mystery include: suspect, victim, evidence, witness, detective, crime, alibi, clue, red herring.

Grandpa's Teeth, by Rod Clement
It's a disaster when Grandpa's set of dentures goes missing and the whole town has to smile broadly all the time to prove they did not steal the teeth, and all that odd grinning scares away the tourists, causing the economy of the town to suffer. Who took those choppers?

Video How are dentures made?
Crafty Connection Dental hygiene coloring sheet

Week of November 28, 2022 | Fourth Grade | Curriculum Connection
Narrative Nonfiction and Endangered Animals Report

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Jane Goodall (b. 1934, London)
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Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell Little Jane loves her stuffed animal, a chimpanzee named Jubilee, and carries him everywhere she goes. Mainly, they go outdoors, where they watch birds building their nests and squirrels chasing each other. Jane reads about animals in books and keeps a notebook of sketches, information, and puzzles. Feeling her kinship with all of nature, she often climbs her favorite tree and reads about another Jane, Tarzan's Jane. She dreams that one day she, too, will live in the African jungle and help the animals. And one day, she does. 

The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps by Jeannette Winter Goodall's passionate love of nature began in early childhood. As an adult, she moved to Tanzania, making the study and protection of the chimpanzees in the Gombe forest a focus of international fascination.

Video Segment Meet Jane Goodall Discovery Education Streaming Video (password protected)


Video Learn more about the life and work of Jane Goodall (running time about 13 min.)

Crafty Connection Step-by-step directions for a folded monkey corner bookmark

Week of November 28, 2022 | Fifth Grade | Curriculum Connection
Narrative Nonfiction and the Genius Report

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Video Images from of W.A. Bentley's book set to guitar music 

Winter Bees, by Joyce Sidman
Begin with the science information for the poem titled "Snowflake Wakes."

Snow Flake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
For almost half a century, Wilson Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His singularity of purpose and passion is astonishing.


Video The Snowflake Man: a short film about Snowflake Bentley
Snow Crystals, by W. A. Bentley
In 1931, the American Meteorological Society gathered together the best of these plus some slides of frost, glaze, sleet, soft hail, and dew on vegetation and on spider webs. Over 2,000 beautiful crystals reveal the wonder of nature's diversity in uniformity; no two are alike, yet all are based on a common hexagon.

The Secret of Water: for the Children of the World, by Masaru Emoto
Presents an environmentally friendly introduction to water, its uses, its importance, and invites children to learn about the connection between water and all living things.

Video Children gather in gratitude to see if their thoughts can affect water.

Winter Bees, by Joyce Sidman
Conclude with the poem titled "Snowflake Wakes."
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Crafty Connections  Snowmen coloring sheet | Step-by-step paper snowflakes
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