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Read-Alouds and Presentations Week to Week by Grade Level

6/5/2023

 

Week of June 5, 2023 | TK | Chill Out with Summer Reading

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Can't Catch Me, by John Hassett
A sassy ice cube escapes from the freezer and runs away to sea.

Crafty Connection Draw the ice cube on blue construction paper and "color" it in with an ice cube

Summer Reading MBUSD reading lists and more

Week of June 5, 2023 | Kindergarten | Ocean Life & Summer Reading

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Inky's Amazing Escape, by Sy Montgomery
When an octopus is whisked away to captivity in an aquarium, he manages to escape by squeezing out of his tank, sliding through the aquarium, and back out to sea, Based upon the 2016 escape from the New Zealand National Aquarium by an octopus named Inky.

Crafty Connection Draw Inky


Summer Reading MBUSD reading lists and more

Week of June 5, 2023 | First Grade | Happy Ends & Summer Reading

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The Three Little Gators, by Helen Ketteman
An adaptation of the traditional folktale in which three little gators each build a house in an east Texas swamp, hoping for protection from the Big-bottomed Boar.
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Noodleheads See the Future, by Tedd Arnold
Inspired by folktales about fools from around the world, brothers Mac and Mac Noodlehead exasperate Uncle Ziti, are fooled by their friend Meatball, and make a garden for their mother.

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Summer Reading MBUSD reading lists and more

Week of June 5, 2023 | Second Grade | Empathy & Summer Reading

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Sharko and Hippo, by Elliot Kalan
Sharko and Hippo go fishing, but every time Sharko asks for something, Hippo pulls out something entirely different from his coat pockets, right up to the twisty ending that shows Hippo's apparent misunderstanding was planned all along. Hippo's style and characteristics are reminiscent of the comedy of Harpo Marx.

Video Harpo meets Groucho on a 1961 episode of You Bet Your LIfe show

​Video Harpo playing the harp in 1945 (skip first 11 seconds)
 

Misunderstood Shark, by Ame Dyckman
Shark interrupts the filming of "Underwater World with Bob," scattering the other creatures (and the audience), but he claims it is all a terrible misunderstanding --that he would never think of eating the fish, the squid, the audience ...or Bob.

​Summer Reading MBUSD reading lists and more​

Week of June 5, 2023 | Third Grade
Enjoy Your Public Library this Summer | Learn Facts & Have Fun

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The Man Who Loved Libraries, by Andrew Larsen
Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835 and emmigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848. Helping to support his family, Carnegie worked in a cotton mill. Later he became a messenger boy and then a telegraph operator. Always a hard worker, Carnegie saved and invested his earnings. By age 35 he was a very rich man, and over his lifetime was able to fulfill his lifelong desire to give away half a billion dollars. Much of the money went to the building of more than 2,500 public libraries around the world. His philanthropy revolutionized public libraries, which were not widespread at that time.

Video The Man Who Loved Libraries, an introduction by author Andrew Larsen

I Just Ate My Friend, by Heidi McKinnon
Having eaten his only friend, a monster seeks a new companion but each creature he meets has a good reason not to serve as a replacement. We've all been there.

Do Not Lick This Book (It's Full of Germs), by Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost
Everything is full of germs, from your socks to the top of Mount Everest. The tour concludes with more formal introductions and profiles for E. coli, Streptococcus, and more. Science at its best: informative and gross.

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Summer Reading MBUSD reading lists and more

Week of June 5, 2023 | Final Library Visit for Fourth Grade
How We Learn and 
Summer Reading

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Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, by JoAnn Deak
Introduces the anatomy and functions of the brain; describes how the the brain is able to stretch and grow; and explains how mistakes are an essential part of learning.
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Alex the Parrot, by Stephanie Spinner
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The story of an African grey parrot named Alex (1976-2007) whose intelligence changed the way scientists view the brain. 
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Video Scientist Irene Pepperberg and Alex

Summer Reading MBUSD reading lists and more

Week of June 5, 2023 | Fifth Grade | MBMS Library | Deep Doodles

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Mrs. Cory O'Meara
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Summer Reading Students entering 6th grade do have required summer reading. Please see the Entering 6th Grade Reading List found on the MBUSD website: Departments > Educational Services > English Language Arts > scroll to the Manhattan Beach Middle School section.

Manhattan Beach Middle School eBooks Current MBUSD 5th graders will soon be able to check out eBooks using the MBMS digital library interface:
1. Visit the school website mbmswaves.com.
2. Under the Student Resources tab select Library from the drop-down menu.
3  Click the Sora App link.
4. Log in with your MBUSDAPPS.org email address. No password is needed.
5. A maximum of two items may be borrowed and will be automatically returned.
Questions? Email MBMS Library Resource Specialist Cory O'Meara at [email protected].

Your Deep Doodles What do your doodles reveal about your character and your personality? Students will draw a few doodles and find out what they may represent. 
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    Library Program

    Our students enjoy weekly visits for a presentation crafted to instill a love of reading, to enhance
    Common Core classroom lessons, and to inspire life-long learning. Visits include checking out materials, practicing information literacy, and exercising digital citizenship.
    Colleagues are welcome to borrow program ideas.

    California Model School Library Standards ​

    Read Aloud 15 Minutes. 
    Every Child. Every Parent. Every Day See why it matters at readaloud.org

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