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Trade Books By: Jessica Williams

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Table of Contents

Multi‐Cultural Books…………………………………………………………………………..pages 4‐8

The Egyptian Cinderella Page 4 When Africa was Home Page 5

This Next New Year Page 6

How Many Stars in the Sky? Page 7

The First Strawberries Page 8

Fantasy Books…………………………………………………………………………………….pages 9‐13

Where the Wild Things Are Page 9 Click, Clack, Moo‐ Cows that Type Page 10

Diary of a Worm Page 11

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Page 12

The Frog Prince Continued Page 13

Realistic Fiction Books…………………………………………………………………………pages 14‐18

100th Day Worries Page 14 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Page 15

Junie B., First Grader (at last!) Page 16

Mr. Peabody’s Apples Page 17

Pancakes Pancakes! Page 18

Historical Fiction Books……………………………………………………………………….pages 19‐21

Nobody Owns the Sky Page 19 Pink and Say Page 20

The Man who walked Between the Towers Page 21

George Washington’s Teeth Page 22

My Secret War Page 23

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Non‐Fiction Books………………………………………………………………………………pages 24‐29

The Life of a Butterfly Page 24 How is a Crayon Made? Page 25‐26

Chomp! A Book About Sharks Page 27

Fossils tell of Long Ago Page 28

Barack Obama Son of Promise, Child of Hope Page 29

Books of My Choice…………………………………………………………………………….pages 25‐34

Elympics Page 30 Don’t Say That Word! Page 31

The Incredible Eating Boy Page 32

Thunder Cake Page 33

Mrs. McBloom Clean Up your Classroom! Page 34

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Title of book: The Egyptian Cinderella

Author’s name: Shirley Climo

Copyright year: 1989

Genre: Multi‐Cultural

Number of pages: 28

Grade Intended: 4th

SYNOPSIS OF STORY: Based on true events, a Grecian girl named Rhodopis is captured by the Egyptians and made into a slave. Because she looks different than the Egyptian servants, they constantly ridicule her and put her to work. One day the master catches Rhodopis dancing for her animal friends, and thought she was so nimble that she deserved a reward. He had special slippers made for her, which angered the servants further giving Rhodophis more work to do. While washing the linen Rhodophi’s dainty slipper gets swept up by a hawk and taken to Pharaoh Amasis. Amasis sees this slipper as a sign, and goes on a search to find the owner of the shoe. After extensive searching, Amasis finds that Rhodopis is the true owner, and Rhodophis is then asked to be the new queen of Egypt.

ACTIVITY:

Origination of idea: Original ideas mixed with ideas from Ms. Randa’s fourth grade class.

Description of activity: Have the students create their own original Cinderella book. First have them brainstorm themes they can bring to the original Cinderella story to make it into their own. This can be anything from writing Cinderella as if she is in another culture such as in The Egyptian Cinderella or a different location such as a Cinderella that lives on the beach or in outer space, or even perhaps a different occupation such as Cinderella as a chef. After brainstorming and going through the prewriting stage, have students create a first draft of their story. Then have the students share their story with a partner and do some revising. Have the student then meet with the teacher individually to proofread the story and go over any mistakes. Finally, have the student create a final draft of the story to be published. Along with publishing the story, have students draw illustrations to go along with it. After all students books are published have them take turns reading their creation to the class in the author’s chair.

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Title of book: When Africa was Home

Author's name: Karen Lynn Williams



Number of Pages: 29

Grade Intended: 3rd

SYNOPSIS OF STORY: Peter is a small boy who has lived in Africa since he was a baby and loves everything about it even though he looks different then everyone else. He has several fun experiences there such as sliding down anthills, climbing mango trees, going around barefoot, and more. Peter even has a good friend named Yekha that he plays with, eats with, and talks with. His father's work in Africa soon comes to an end and Peter's parents tell him he will have to return to America where they originally lived. Peter is worried about going to America and leaving everything he knows and loves. Eventually, Peter and his family make it back to America and Peter has a culture shock because everything is different in America including the way people talk and the cold winter weather. Peter greatly misses his friends in Africa, and is thrilled when his father finds another job back "home." Peter is soon reunited with Yekha and other friends and is so happy to finally be back in Africa.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Idea: Original

Description of Activity: For this activity, have the students create a poster showing traditions and items that represent their families' lifestyle and culture. In the book Peter sees Africa as his home, and only knows that way of living including activities such as running with the goats and other things they do there. Also, his friends and nanny are from there. His parents, however, see America as their home, and know those cultures and traditions including eating foods like pizza, and going out in the icy cold snow. For this activity, the students are to represent their lifestyle through a poster. They can use magazine pictures, drawings, and photographs, and words/labels to do this. They can do things such as putting pictures of their family, drawing traditional foods their family eats, showing games they play with friends and family, representing their heritage, and anything else that comes to their minds.

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Title of Book: This Next New Year

Author's name: Janet S. Wong


Genre: Multi‐cultural

Number of pages: 28

Grade Intended: Kindergarten

SYNOPSIS OF STORY: One little boy is getting ready for his celebration of the Chinese or Lunar New Year. He goes through the story telling of the traditions he and his family celebrate. He also tells the different traditions his friends celebrate. He does everything from clean the house very well, to put on nice clean clothes. He does all this in order to take advantage of a fresh start and bring in good luck for the New Year.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Idea: http://www.show.me.uk/site/news/STO971.html

Description of Activity: Have the students create a traditional Chinese dragon puppet and then have a Chinese new year's parade. Dragon puppets are part of celebrating the Chinese New Year. First gather the supplies needed including A piece of red card and a piece of gold card (both about A4 sized), scissors, glue, sticky tape, two drinking straws (not the bendy ones) or garden sticks or disposable, chopsticks, pencil, crayons and glitter glue for decoration. Then take the students through the steps in order for them to create their puppet, look at the website for step by step instructions. After the students have created their craft, have them go through a few school classrooms (with the permission of the teacher) and down the halls to simulate a real Chinese New Year parade.

http://www.show.me.uk/site/news/STO971.html

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Title of Book: How Many Stars in the Sky?

Author: Lenny Hort


Genre: Multi‐cultural

Number of Pages: 29

Intended grade: 5th

SYNOPSIS OF STORY: One night a little boy's mama is gone and he can't sleep. He decides to count all the stars in the sky to relax. He starts by looking out his window, but the more he sees the more he journeys into the night to count them. The boy finds out his father can't sleep either, so together they hop into the truck. They decide to go on a journey in order to answer the question "How many stars in the sky?"

ACTIVITY:


For this activity the students will each get to pick a constellation to research and report on. In How Many Stars in the Sky, the boy pointed out the Big Dipper to his father. The student is to find information on a different constellation including what month can it best be seen, where is it in the sky at that time, the story or legend that goes along with the constellation, a picture or drawing of the constellation and other fun facts about the constellation.

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Title of Book: The First Strawberries

Author: Retold by Joseph Bruchac



Number of Pages: 29

Intended grade: 3rd

SYNOPSIS OF STORY:

In this Cherokee creation tale, man and woman are first created to keep each other company. The man and woman have a fight. The woman decides to walk away and the man cannot catch up with her. The sun sees the man's distress and decides to help him by shining light onto the fruit beside the woman's path. The sun shines on some strawberries; the woman tastes them and is reminded of her husband so she decides to pick them for him. The husband than catches up with his wife and they share the sweet strawberries. Cherokees still today are reminded that friendship is as sweet as the strawberry.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Idea: Mrs. Maple's fourth grade class

The students will make a diorama representing a Native American tribe's living area. In the book The First Strawberries a tale is represented from the Cherokee people. For this assignment the children are to pick any Native American tribe and recreate a typical living space that tribe might have. For example, if the student had Iroquois Native Americans they might create a wigwam and long house as part of their diorama.

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Title of Book: Where the Wild Things Are

Author: Maurice Sendak


Genre: Fantasy

Number of Pages: 38

Intended Grade: 2nd

SYNOPSIS OF STORY: One night Max decides to put his wolf suit on and create a lot mischief. After getting sent to his room without his supper, Max’s room turns into a forest. He then sails an ocean until he reaches the wild things. Max tames the wild things, and they decide to make him king. After that Max and the wild things get along and Max has a great time until he starts to smell good things to eat from a far away world.

ACTIVITY:


The students will view the movie Where the Wild Things Are . After viewing the movie and reading the story, the students will be expected to compare and contrast the two to see how they are similar and how they are different. This will allow students to see how movies can really change what a book is saying, and that it is always a good idea to read the book before watching the movie.

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Title: Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type

Author: Doreen Cronin


Genre: Fantasy

Number of Pages: 29

Intended Grade: 2nd

SNYNOPSIS OF STORY: Farmer Brown encounters a problem when his cows start typing him notes requesting electric blankets. They refuse to give milk until their request is met. Eventually they request electric blankets for the hens as well. Farmer Brown is quite angry! He writes back to the hens and cows denying their request. Eventually the animals agree to compromise with the farmer, and trade their typewriter for some much wanted electric blankets.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Idea: Mrs. Hanback’s class and original idea

The students will create a postcard in the perspective of an animal or object. In the book the animals on the farm write notes to Farmer Brown requesting the things they need. On one side of the postcard the child will write a note from an animal or thing to whoever, requesting something they need. It can be silly or something they really need. An example might be that a child is in the perspective of a sunflower writing to a gardener. He or she may ask the gardener to get the weeds out and for some new sunglasses. Make sure they use proper parts of a note with the date, salutation, and greeting. On the opposite side have the student draw a picture of the animal or item they are pretending to be. For example this student might draw a sunflower with sunglasses on.

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Title of Book: Diary of a Worm

Author: Doreen Cronin

Copyright: 2003

Genre: Fantasy

Number of Pages: 32

Intended Grade: 2nd

SNYNOPSIS OF STORY: In this story a little worm keeps a diary on his everyday life experiences. His adventures include everything from teaching his friend spider how to dig to eating his homework assignments! When he grows up he would like to be a Secret Service agent, even though it is a dangerous job. Worm tells the good things and bad things of being a worm. He knows one thing is for sure, that we need him for the earth.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Idea: http://users.manchester.edu/student/cjwisher/diary%20of%20a%20worm/WORMSRUS.htm mixed with original ideas.

For this activity the students will color a picture of a worm and then write a worm diary for 2 weeks. After they decorate their worms, the teacher will laminate them and then tell them they are supposed to take their worm with them on whatever adventures they go on in the next 2 weeks. They are to document the daily activities and journeys their worm goes on. For example, if the child took their worm to the movie theater on Friday they would write that in their diary from a worm’s perspective just like in Diary of a Worm

http://users.manchester.edu/student/cjwisher/diary%20of%20a%20worm/WORMSRUS.htm

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Title of Book: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Author: Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

Copyright: 1989

Genre: Fantasy

Number of pages: 30

Intended grade: Kindergarten

SYNOPSIS: All the letters of the alphabet start climbing the coconut tree. The more letters that climb the less room there is at the top of the coconut tree. Eventually the whole alphabet makes it up the tree and all the letters fall down with a chicka chicka boom boom! The moms, dads, uncles, and aunts rush to help the little letters. Eventually all the letters make it down from the tree when the sun starts to set. But after dark little a decides to climb the coconut tree once again.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of idea: original

The students are going to participate in a chicka chicka boom boom skit. First assign each student a letter, and give them a poster with a string to hang around themselves so they can “be” that letter. Then, while reading the story have each student act out what the book is saying. For example, for the part “U V W wiggle jiggle free,” the students representing U V W will wiggle themselves from the student playing the “coconut tree.” If there are more than 26 children have one child be the coconut tree and others act as the letter relatives. After the story is done being read, activities can be done with the children such as having the student who is the letter that starts the word orange step forward and do a silly dance.

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Title of the book: The Frog Prince Continued

Author: Jon Scienszka

Copyright: 1991

Genre: Fantasy

Number of pages: 28

Intended grade: 4th

SYNOPSIS: Though everyone believes a princess kissed a frog, he turned into a prince and they lived happily ever after this may not be the case. In this story the princess and frog prince are quite unhappy together and the frog prince decides the only way to become happy is to turn into a frog once again. He goes on a search for witch to turn him back into a frog. On his journey he finds several witches, none of them believing that he was the Frog Prince. Eventually, he runs into a fairy godmother who accidently turns him into a carriage. Luckily at midnight the spell is broken and the Frog Prince turns back into a prince and returns home. Once home he realizes how lucky he is to have the princess. He then kisses her and they both turn into frogs and live happily ever after.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of activity: original

The book The Frog Prince Continued has an alternate ending to the classic fairy tale. For this activity the students will create an alternate ending to another classic fairytale. They will pick a fairytale they like and then write a different ending to this. The alternate ending does not have to be a whole story like The Frog Prince Continued is, but it should be at least a page long.

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Title of the book: 100th Day Worries

Author: Margery Cuyler

Copyright: 2000

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 30

Intended grade: 1st

SYNOPSIS: Jessica is a major worrier, so when her teacher tells the class to bring in 100 items for 100 day Jessica starts to worry. Other children in her class bring in some great items for 100 day, but Jessica just has no good ideas. Finally the last day comes to bring in 100 things, and Jessica is still empty handed. Her family helps her out by gathering items for her 100th day. They gather everything from ribbons to buttons to rocket shaped erasers, but they still only up with 90 items. Jessica does not have time to collect anything else, because she has to catch the bus. When she is at school she opens her lunch and finds a note from her mom that has 10 Xs at the bottom, just enough to get her collection of items to 100 for 100 day!

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Activity: The book 100th Day Worries

Have the children bring in their own items for 100th day in your classroom. Do this on the week of the 100th day of school. The children can bring in any appropriate items, but there must be 100 of them. Tell them not to bring anything valuable to school. Then have the student share what they brought with the class and display the different 100 items around the classroom.

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Title of book: Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Author: Jeff Kinney

Copyright: 2007


Number of Pages: 217

Intended grade: 4th

SYNOPSIS: In the story Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg Heffley is given a “journal,” or diary, to write in by his mother. The whole book is seen through Greg’s eyes as he is the one writing it. Greg goes through his sixth grade year and writes all the conflicts, successes, trials and tribulations that go with being an average sixth grade boy. He has a best friend named Rowley which he goes on many adventures with, in and outside of school. He also has a rebellious older brother that loves heavy metal, and a younger brother who seems to never get in trouble. Throughout the whole story the reader learns what an average day in the life of Greg Heffley is like.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of activity: Original

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a type of story called a graphic novel, which is basically a long and bound type of comic. Also, in the story Greg Heffley and his friend Rowley write their very own comics for the school newspaper. For this activity I will explain these types of writings, and then have the student write their very own comic strip. Their comic strip can be about anything as long as it is appropriate and consists of at least 4 squares. They will need to include illustrations as well as dialogue in their comic. When everyone’s comic is completed I will bind them together so the class can have their very own graphic novel.

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Title of book: Junie B., First Grader (at last!)

Author: Barbara Park

Copyright: 2001


Number of Pages: 76

Intended Grade: 1st

SYNOPSIS:

Junie B. is going to first grade for the first time. She decides right away that first grade is not for her, and to make matters worse all her friends from last year have found new friends. Junie B. gets upset when her teacher, Mr. Scary, assigns a journal assignment that she does not understand. She gets embarrassed when he goes and checks her journal. Afterwards, he eventually takes Junie to the nurse even though she does not feel sick or tired. Junie is then given an E test, and is told she is to get glasses. She is embarrassed of her new glasses but eventually gets the courage to show them to the class for show and tell. Some children start to make fun of her, but lucky for Junie B. some her new classmates stick up for her and tell the class how cool glasses are! Junie B. thinks she will like first grade after all.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of activity: Kelsey Heisler and website read, write, think

Since this book is a chapter book the pictures are very limited and comprehension plus imaginations are a necessity. For this activity I will read the story aloud and stop in a number of places probably 5 to 7. Every time I stop reading the students will be expected to draw pictures that come from their imaginations. Once all the pictures are drawn the students will get into small groups and discuss why they drew the pictures the way they did. After small group discussion have a whole class discussion and allow a few students to volunteer and show their favorite picture to the class.

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Title of Book: Mr. Peabody’s Apples

Author: Madonna

Copyright: 2004


Number of Pages: 29

Intended Grade: 1st

SYNOPSIS:

This story starts out in the small town of Happyville where Mr. Peabody, the elementary history teacher, congratulating his little league team for playing a great game. Mr. Peabody was loved by the town, and was a very friendly man. One day Tommy saw Mr. Peabody take a shiny red apple form Mr. Funkadeli’s fruit market, but he did not pay for it! Tommy told all the other little leaguers who then told their parents that Mr. Peabody was a thief. When game time came the only little leaguer who showed up was Billy. When Mr. Peabody asked why no one showed up Billy told him that Billy saw him steal an apple. What they did not know was that Mr. Peabody actually pays for all his apples on Saturday mornings and then picks them up throughout the week. Billy felt awful and told Tommy the news. Tommy then went to apologize to Mr. Peabody, and Mr. Peabody told him to grab a pillow filled with feathers and meet him on the field. Once on the field, Mr. Peabody told Tommy to rip open the pillow and let the feathers fly everywhere. He then told Tommy to pick up every single feather that had blown. He then went on to say that the feathers represent the people of Happyville and the rumor that Tommy had spread. They were both virtually impossible to undo the damage. Well Tommy replied by saying he had a lot of work ahead of him, and with a lot of hard work he cleaned up all the feathers.

ACTIVITY:


Take the students on a field trip to a local apple orchard. At the apple orchard they can pick out their very own ripe shiny apples just like Mr. Peabody. They will also learn more about where apples come from before they make it to the fruit market or grocery store.

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Title of Book: Pancakes Pancakes!

Author: Eric Carle

Copyright: 1990


Number of Pages: 28

Intended grade: 2nd

SYNOPSIS:

Jack wants a pancake for breakfast, so he asks his mother what he can do to help. She replies by having him get some flour. After he makes some flour she has him go and gather some eggs form the hens. After gathering eggs his mother has him milk the cow. He then churns butter and builds a fire, and grabs some strawberry jelly from the cellar all for the sake of making his pancakes. Once all the ingredients are gathered Jack’s mother makes his pancakes. After she makes his pancakes Jack knows exactly what to do with the pancake‐EAT IT!

Activity:

Origin of Activity: Original

For this activity have a pancake breakfast for the students. While they will not be able to actually cook the pancakes because of safety reasons, they can still experience what goes into making a pancake. Be sure to bring in the raw ingredients it takes to make pancakes if possible such as grain for flour (to see what it looks like), flour, eggs, milk, butter, jam, and syrup. Mix the batter together and serve the pancakes as a class pancake breakfast. Provide jam as one topping choice since it is mentioned in the book. Encourage them to try their pancakes with jam if they have never done this before.

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Title of Book: Nobody Owns the Sky

Author: Reeve Lindbergh

Copyright: 1996

Genre: Historical Fiction

Number of Pages: 22

Intended grade: 5th

SYNOPSIS:

This story is about Bessie Coleman's life and ambitions to be one of the first African‐American woman pilots. The story starts out giving Bessie's background as a child who had a big dream to fly a plane when she grew up. While the people around her told her it could not be done, she replied by saying "Nobody owns the sky." Even though all the flying schools Bessie applied to in the United States rejected her, she found a school in France where she could get licensed. Bessie worked very hard and finally fulfilled her dream of becoming a pilot. Sadly, Bessie's life was cut short when her plane failed and crashed. Bessie left a great legacy and paved the way for all who wanted to fulfill a dream.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Activity: The book Nobody Owns the Sky

Activity: Have the students each make a paper airplane. Allow them to be "pilots" just like Bessie Coleman and experiment with their planes seeing how far they can fly among other things. There could even be class contests to see who made the best airplane. Take it a step farther and have them explore the principals of flight.

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Title of book: Pink and Say

Author: Patricia Polacco

Copyright: 1994


Number of Pages: 44

Intended Grade: 5th

SNYNOPSIS:

Wounded and lying in a field, Sheldon is found by Pinkus. As a fellow union soldier, Pinkus takes Sheldon to his home to recover. While at Pinkus’ home, Sheldon meets his loving mother Moe Moe Bay. Moe Moe Bay nurses Sheldon back to heath, and the boys prepare to re enter the war. Before this happens, mauderers invade Pinkus’ small home, and Moe Moe Bay is killed. The boys set out on their own, and are captured by confederate soldiers then taken to a Confederate camp known as Andersonville. Here Sheldon and Pinkus are separated due to their different skin colors. Sheldon eventually gets set free, but Pinkus, sadly, never makes it out of the camp.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Activiy: Original

Pink and Say takes place during the civil war. Have the students create a mobile centered on the civil war and the story Pink and Say. They will need to have at least 3 strings of information tied to their mobile. They will need to find information in the story Pink and Say that has to do with the civil war. For example, they could write that the two sides of the civil war were Union and Confederate and Pink and Say were both on the Union side. Or they may write Andersonville was a real confederate camp, and in the story Pink and Say were taken to that camp. They must include at least one illustration on their mobile.

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Title of book: The Man Who Walked between the Towers

Author: Mordicai Gerstein

Copyright: 2003


Number of Pages: 34

Intended grade: 3rd

SYNOPSIS: The Man who Walked between the Towers is based on a true story about a man named Philippe who had a dream of tight wire walking across the twin towers in New York City. The story starts off by telling how Philippe loved to perform by juggling, balancing, and tight wire walking. It goes on to tell how he was from France, and had already walked between the steeples of the Notre Dame Cathedral and was ready for a new challenge. Since tight rope walking the twin towers was dangerous as well as illegal, Philippe and his friends had to dress up as construction workers and sneak up to the towers with their equipment. They eventually get the wire set up and the next day Philippe fulfills his dream of walking across the twin towers.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of activity: http://www.liveoakmedia.com/client/guides/94258.pdf

For this activity take the children to the gymnasium. Once in the gym, lay out a rope or a thin piece of paper on the ground to represent a tightrope. Have the students take turns walking across the “tightrope.” Tell them to imagine that they are ¼ of a mile above the ground, or one whole loop around the track! After every student gets a chance to practice have them move to a balance beam and practice walking across pretending it is also a tightrope. Once everyone has a chance, go back to the classroom and have them write about how it felt to be on a “tightrope.” Was it difficult or easy? Also have them write how they think Philippe felt when he was on a tightrope.

http://www.liveoakmedia.com/client/guides/94258.pdf

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Title of Book: George Washington’s Teeth

Author: Deborah Chandra and Madeleine Comora

Copyright: 2003


Number of Pages: 32

Intended grade: Kindergarten or 1st

SYNOPSIS:

Based on true facts, this story goes through George Washington’s many tooth troubles. The story starts off with George having to get a rotten tooth pulled out. He continues to have sore teeth even throughout his Revolutionary war battles. One by one they continue to fall out, so much so that he can only eat soft foods. By the time the war is over George is left with 5 teeth! George tries everything, but continues to be self‐conscious about his toothless mouth. Finally he comes up with the idea to have his original teeth molded and replicated with hippo tusk. Eventually George has a set of false teeth that work just as well as real teeth.

ACTIVITY:


Activity: Complete this activity in the month of February, because it is not only the month for President’s Day, but also the month for National Children’s Dental Health. Explain that having good dental hygiene is important so that our teeth can stay healthy. Tell them to have good dental hygiene we must brush and floss our teeth at least 2 times a day. Then, have the students create a tooth brushing chart. The chart should have all days of the week on it as well as a place for them to mark that they brushed and flossed their teeth two times for that day. It might also be helpful to include a place for them to mark if/when they lose a tooth! It is also a good idea to explain that if they lose a tooth it is not rotten like George Washington’s, so they should not panic. It is normal and just means they are ready for their permanent grown‐up teeth to grow in. Have the children take the completed charts home to use.

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Title of Book: My Secret War

Author: Mary Pope Osborne

Copyright: 2000


Number of Pages: 182

Intended Grade: 5th

SNYNOPSIS:

This is the diary of a young girl named Madeline Beck. It takes place in Long Island New York during World War II. Madeline’s father is in the Navy, and is away fighting in war leaving Madeline and her mother by their selves. Madeline writes everyday about her experiences in a new town while the war is going on including current events seen in the newspaper and her passion to help out. She meets a friend and love interest named Johnny, and together they create a club known as the KF3 or Kids Fight for Freedom. They use this club to help with the war efforts, and in the process they create many adventures.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Activity: original

For this activity the children will create their own newspaper. In the story Madeline is continuously looking to the newspaper headlines to see what events are happening with the war. She even writes down quotes from President Roosevelt that she found in the newspaper. Overall, the newspaper was a crucial source of information for Americans during World War II. So for this activity the students will create a newspaper with headlines and articles from past World War II events. They are to write it as though they were living during World War II. They should include at least 4 articles filled with historical information and at least 2 drawings or pictures.

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Title of Book: The Life of a Butterfly

Author: Robin Bernard

Copyright: 1995

Genre: Non‐Fiction

Number of Pages: 16

Intended Grade: Kindergarten

SNYNOPSIS:

This story goes through the life of a butterfly starting with the time it is an egg. A butterfly starts off as a little white caterpillar. It eats it eggshell right away, eats and eats and then develops velvety stripes. It eats the milkweed plant. After about 10 days it stops eating and looks for a safe place to rest and then turns itself into a chrysalis. Two weeks later the chrysalis starts to turn clear and within 15 minutes the butterfly is out of the chrysalis. The butterfly then goes from flower to flower to eat the sweet nectar. Eventually monarchs will fly south for the winter to Mexico.

ACTIVITY:


There will be a classroom butterfly! Gather some monarch butterfly eggs and milkweed for the butterfly to eat. Then place the egg into the classroom. The students will get to watch the egg turn to a caterpillar and then to a butterfly. Then, as a class, release the butterfly into the wild. As an addition the students could draw in a butterfly journal what they see each day.

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Title of Book: How is a Crayon Made?

Author: Oz Charles

Copyright: 1988


Number of pages: 29

Intended Grade: Kindergarten

SNYNOPSIS:

This book goes through the process it takes to make a crayon. The first step is the creation of the color which is made by water and various chemicals. The colors are put onto a kiln to dry and bake. They are then mixed in blending machines for special shades. The colors are then blended into a fine powder and sent to the crayon manufacturing plant. The plant has large storage tanks full of heated liquid wax. The powdery colors are added to the mixing vats, and then they are placed into crayon molds. The molded crayons are then inspected for chips and then given labels. While this goes on, some crayons are tested for strength, color, and consistency. The crayons get placed in to different boxes from a packing machine classed a boxing machine.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Activity: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1715273/kids_crafts_how_to_make_new_recycled.html?cat=7

For this activity the students will make their "own" crayons. Only these crayons will be recycled crayons. After they are made the students can use them for free time coloring or take them home. Have the students bring in broken crayons from home, or chances are, there will already be some in the classroom.

Directions for recycled crayons: Peel all the paper labels off the broken crayons and crayon bits, if there is any still left on them. Spray nonstick cooking spray in each cup of the metal cupcake baking pans. You can use the cupcake baking pans that make small cupcakes or regular sized cupcakes. Either work fine to make the recycled crayons. Sort their crayons into color piles. If you have a lot of broken pieces and a group of children are making these recycled crayons this makes the project a little easier with a group of children. Put the broken pieces into the cupcake baking pans. Let the kids

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create any color combinations they like or keep them all one color. They can give them fun names like strawberry orange, or sunset sky, whatever appeals to them. Preheat the oven to 275 F or 135 C. Place the cupcake pans with the broken crayons in the oven and heat until melted. (This takes about 7 to 14 minutes. The larger ones take a little longer to melt and the cupcake foil lined ones take longer to melt too.). Remove the cupcake pans from the oven. Use the toothpicks and stir the melted crayons in the cupcake pans while they are still soft. Make them swirly looking. Then leave them to cool for a few minutes. Place the cupcake pans in the freezer so the melted crayons can cool and form. Let them harden in the freezer for about an hour.

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Title: Chomp! A book about Sharks

Author: Melvin Berger

Copyright: 1999


Number of Pages: 37

Grade Intended: 3rd

SNYNOPSIS:

This book tells interesting facts about sharks in general. First of all, sharks are great hunters. They can smell blood and hear sounds from very far away. Once a prey is found, many sharks come to get a piece. Most sharks usually hunt fish, seals and porpoises. Sharks are also powerful swimmers. They usually swim about 3 miles per hour and never stop swimming, even when they are sleeping. Sharks have no bones in their bodies, only cartilage. Sharks have hundreds of teeth that are fit for whatever they eat and consist of many rows. Sharks lay eggs or keep eggs inside of them, when the eggs hatch out comes a pup. There are many types of sharks in our ocean.

Activity:


Have the students play an adapted version of sharks and minnows. They will have to go to the gym or outside for this activity. To play, one shark is chosen to stand on the opposite side of everyone else. Everyone else is going to be different types of prey sharks eat including fish, seals or porpoises. After the child chooses a type of prey to be, the shark will then call out a type of prey and if called those children must run to the other side of the gym without being tagged by the shark. If the shark does come to tag a prey, they can be safe only if they squat down and say one true shark fact before the shark tags them. If they do not say a shark fact in time, the prey then becomes a shark and joins the shark side. This goes on until there is only one prey left.

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Title of Book: Fossils Tell of Long Ago

Author: Aliki

Copyright: 1990


Number of Pages: 32

Grade Intended: Kindergarten

SNYNOPSIS:

The author goes through the process of how something turns into a fossil. First the fish died and probably landed on the bottom of the ocean floor. Thousands of years passed and the sea where the fish had lived dried up. While the fish was in the bottom of the ground, the mud changed to rock leaving minerals in the fish bones which turned them to stone. Fossils can be actual animals or stone. There are many other types of fossils such as leaves, dinosaurs, shells, mammoths and more. Fossils tell us about the past.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Activity: The story Fossils Tell of Long Ago

The children will make own fossil out of clay. This story suggests that the children take some clay and place their handprint in it. After the clay hardens the children can choose to bury their handprint fossil in hopes that in the future an archeologist will dig it up and learn about them.

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Title of book: Barack Obama Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Author: Nikki Grimes

Copyright: 2008


Number of Pages: 40

Intended Grade: 4th

SNYNOPSIS:

This is a biography about our current president. The book goes through Barack’s life starting from when he was in Hawaii to his childhood in Indonesia, then back to Hawaii, California, Kenya, Chicago, and finally Washington D.C. Barack or earlier known as Barry, grew up in an unconventional family and was moved around a lot. He was taught education is key and moved to California for a college education. He then landed a job in Chicago working with a church. He went to Kenya to visit his dad’s side of the family and visit his father’s grave. He later went to Harvard. He then ran for President of the United States and won the election becoming the 44th president of the United States! Through it all he remained full of hope.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Activity: Korey Bucher mixed with original ideas

The children will be creating a bookmark for this activity. On the first side of the bookmark they are to cut and paste a pre printed picture or draw an original picture of President Obama. On the back side, they are going to make a time line that shows the important events in President Obama’s life thus far. They will end the timeline with Obama becoming president of the United States.

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Title of Book: Elympics

Author: X. J. Kennedy

Copyright: 1999

Genre: Fantasy (my choice)

Number of pages: 30

Intended grade: 2nd

SYNOPSIS: Elephants are participating in all sorts of Elympic events. First are the summer games and the elephants are sprinting, participating in triathlons, volleyball, gymnastics and more. The winter games come next. Elfantina figure skates while big Elmo attempts the ski jump. Trumpette gets the gold in the end.

ACTIVITY:


Elympics is composed of many poems that rhyme. For this activity the students will write their own rhyming poem. They can either write their poem about an animal (such as an elephant), a sport (such as figure skating or basketball), or both (such as an elephant playing basketball).

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Title of Book: Don’t Say That Word!

Author: Alan Katz

Copyright: 2007

Genre: Realistic Fiction (my choice)

Number of Pages: 32

Intended Grade: 2nd

SYNOPSIS:

Michael’s mother asks him what he did at school today. He can’t wait to tell her about his day. He responds by telling her about the events that happened in the school day. One by one he goes through his stories only, the thing is, every time he gets to the good parts his mother yells out “Don’t say that word!” Michael is finally told to put on his pajamas and right when his mother is about to tell him to get in bed he yells “Don’t say that word!”

ACTIVITY:


In the story Michael’s mother always stopped him from finishing his stories because she wanted him to use good manners. For this activity the students will get into groups and write their own songs about how to use good manners. The students can sing their songs to a familiar tune such as Old McDonald or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

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Title of Book: The Incredible Eating Boy

Author: Oliver Jeffers

Copyright: 2006


Number of Pages: 28

Intended Grade: 2nd

SNYPOSIS:

Henry loves to eat all types of books. He accidentally licked a book one day, and after that he was hooked. The more books he ate the smarter he got. He eventually ate books 3 and 4 at a time! This was not a good idea because he started to feel ill and on top of that all of his facts were getting all mixed up. He eventually couldn’t even talk! Professionals told him he needed to give up books, so he did. Not knowing what to do next, he picked up a book and actually read it. Henry found that he loves to read, and now he reads books instead of eating them.

ACTIVITY:


In this story Henry loves to eat books for meals instead of read them. For this activity the students will create a menu of books they think Henry might enjoy. Each item on the menu must include a description of the book, and what Henry will gain if he eats the book (what he will learn).

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Title of Book: Thunder Cake

Author: Patricia Polacco

Copyright: 1990

Genre: Realistic Fiction (my choice)

Number of Pages: 30

Intended Grade: 1st

SYNOPSIS:

One cloudy day on a Michigan farm there were dark clouds looming and thunder clapping which scared little Patricia. Her grandmother told her to come out from under the bed and help gather ingredients to make thunder cake. They bravely entered the outdoors to get all the necessary ingredients. They counted to see how close the thunder was to their farm, because they wanted to make the cake before the storm came. Finally, they got the cake in the oven only 3 minutes before the storm hit. Patricia’s grandmother then turned to her and told her she was brave for going out to get ingredients from various scary places and animals. Patricia realized this was true and agreed. Then they both shared a piece of the delicious thunder cake.

ACTIVITY:


For this activity the students are going to bring a family recipe that has some kind of meaning to them just as thunder cake has meaning to Patricia. If they don’t have a family recipe at home for some reason they can copy one from a cookbook or get one online that they think looks like a good recipe. In both cases they must write the recipe out on an index card. After all the recipes are collected there will be a classroom cookbook created. Each child will receive a classroom cookbook at open house. Also, let the child know they are welcome to bring their famous recipe in for the class to taste.

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Title of Book: Mrs. McBloom Clean Up your Classroom!

Author: Kelly DiPucchio

Copyright: 2005


Number of Pages: 29

Intended Grade: 2nd

SYNOPSIS:

Mrs. McBloom’s classroom is a jumbled up mess even though her students and principal keep begging her to clean it up. Mrs. McBloom never gets around to it. She is getting ready to finally retire and Miss Bumblesprot will be replacing her and needs a clean classroom. All of Mrs. McBloom’s students brainstorm ways to clean up the class. Finally, Georgia Peachpit comes up with a great idea to have every citizen in Up Yonder come and clean out one item from the classroom. This idea is successful, and all of Mrs. McBlooms former students come to say hello and help her clean out her room. After the room is finally clean, they hold a big garage sale and use the earnings to take Mrs. McBloom on a fancy‐shmancy cruise.

ACTIVITY:

Origin of Activity: http://www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com/mrs_mcbloom_activity_guide.pdf

Create your own “To‐do List” just like Mrs. McBloom does. Create one that highlights all of the extraordinary things you’d like to accomplish in your lifetime. Be creative! S‐T‐R‐E‐T‐C‐H your imagination! Use your noggin! Anything goes!

http://www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com/mrs_mcbloom_activity_guide.pdf

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