2012-2013+Grade+1+Library+Curriculum

__Grade 1 Curriculum__ __2012-2013__ Library meets once a week. We read a story, have a class discussion or activity, and check out two books. Books are due on the following library class day.

We begin the school year by introducing responsive Classroom concepts to our classes. We incorporate the following into our library class: Once this is complete, we continue with our library lesson of the week.
 * September 4 **
 * entering the classroom in a 2by2 line
 * reading our library message together
 * greeting each other by name and with eye contact,sharing of information

This week we discuss library rules and procedures, take our class photo for out Biographical quilt, and check out books.

Dear Library Learners, Welcome to an exciting year of learning in the school library. We (heart) books! Do you? Sincerely, Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We read this fun back to school story by a favorite author/illustrator.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">September 10 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Meet the Barkers__ by Tomie dePaola **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We continue to talk about library procedures:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">using shelf markers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">choosing books independently
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">checking out books, care and return of books
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">overdue consequences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">read and share books quietly while waiting for the end of class

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This colorful, lively back to school story is about farm animals that visit the library to cure their boredom.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">September 17 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Book, Book, Book__ by Deborah Bruss ; illustrated by Stephanie Beeke **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__I Will Not Read This Book__ by Cece Meng; illustrated by Joy Ang **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">September 24 **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Wild About Books__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">October 1 **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Andre, The Famous Harbor Seal__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">October 10 **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Part 1: __Prince William__ **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video: Part about the Valdez Oil Spill **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">October 15 **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Part 2: __Prince William__ **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Share Magazine about oil spill & about Prince William of England__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">October 21 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Pumpkin Blanket__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">October 29 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Pumpkin Circle__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">November 5 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__ER Unit: Howe__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">November 13 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Gracious__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">November 19 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Thanksgiving Catchup.__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">November 26 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__ER Unit: Krensky Lionel At Large__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">December 3 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__ER Unit: Lin Ling and Ting__ **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">December 10 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__ER Unit: Rylant__ **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Some people say this is "the most wonderful time of the year", but we think every day is wonderful in library! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Happy day :), Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdah
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">December 17 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">Kwanzaa pop-up books/ DVD: Winter Holiday Stories: __Seven Candles of Kwanzaa__ (DVD WIN various) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">DVD: Winter Holiday Stories: __Twas the Night Before Christmas__ **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;"> (DVD WIN various) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__How Santa Got His Job__ by Stephen Krensky (E KRE PB) **

Winter Break.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">December 24 **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">January 2 **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Library Lil__ by Suzanne Williams, illustrated by Steven Kellogg (E WIL) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__L is for Library__ by Sonya Terry, illustrated by Nicole Wong (E TER) **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">There are many reasons why New England is sometimes called a Winter Wonderland. One of the wonders is how animals live in the <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">cold and snoe. Let's explore this topis with some interesting books about animals in the snow! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">January 7 **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">**Read:**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Over and Under the Snow__ by Kate Messner, pictures by Christopher Silas Neal (591.4 MES) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Animals Tracks__ by Karen Kenney (591.4 KEN) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Who's Been Here? A Tale in Tracks__ by Fran Hodgkins, illustrated by Karel Hayes (E HOD) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">Share other book: **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Snow Tracks__ by Jean George (591 GEO) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Book of Animal Tracks and Wildlife Signs__ by Jim Arnosky (599 ARN) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__In the Snow: Who's Been Here?__ by Lindsay Barrett George (E GEO) **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Author/Illustrator Eric Carle likes to include real facts about nature in his beautiful made-up stories. In today's story, the animal moves to a new home in a special way. You will learn more about Eric Carle in art with Mrs. Lubin. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">January 14 **

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Read: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Connect with Mrs. Lubin's Eric Carle art lesson. Discuss how Eric Carle created his art work, creating colored papers, used textures etc. This story has an excellent lesson for our Hanscom community; moving should be looked at as an exciting opportunity to try new things! Also share that facts are often included in fiction books! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Next year have Mrs. Lubin start week 1 with making papers, and the following we we do the lessons above, focusing on the making of the collages.**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Share: **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Hermit Crabs__ by Sylvia Johnson (595.3 JOH) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__HELP! I Have a Hermit Crab__ by David and Patricia Armentrout (639 ARM) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Magazine: Click-Welcome Home (April 2008) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Hermit Crabs__ by Lola M. Schaefer (595.3 SCH) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__A House for Hermit Crab__ by Eric Carle (E CAR) **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Our first book is nonfiction and gives us facts about llamas. Our second story is realistic fiction and is based on a true story with real facts. Did you know the pronunciation of llama in Spanish is "yama"? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We talk about using an index to find information in a nonfiction book. Using the index (each child uses his own copy of the index), the children decide which information we should look up in our book, __Llama__. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We learn some interesting things about llamas! While reading __Harley__, we see that many facts are used in the story.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">January 23 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Llama__ **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **by Caroline Arnold, photographs by Richard Hewett**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__Llamas__ by Mary Dunn (** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">636.2 DUN) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Part 1: Easy Reader realistic fiction __Harley__ by Star Livingstone (ER LIV) **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today, we will be reading the rest of Harley. I hope you like the ending (and my special videotape). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After finishing our tale about Harley, the students love watching the video of a real guard llama! Look at the end papers of __Harley__.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">January 28 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Part 2: Easy Reader realistic fiction __Harley__ by Star Livingstone **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Video: Nancy's homemade video of Lincoln's Harley**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today, we'll read and see a nonfiction book that is so much fun, youll forget it is an information book. Then, we'll draw with the author! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Continue with fact and fiction unit: First graders view an animated version of this fabulous book and decide whether it is fiction or non fiction. While it is entertaining and charmingly illustrated and might seem like a fiction book, it is indeed a FACTUAL book about the way wool becomes cloth and cloth becomes clothes.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">February 4 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Charlie Needs a Cloak__ by Tomie dePaola **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We then watch a segment of "Tomie dePaola The Pied Piper of Children's books" where dePaola shows how he draws one of his favorite animals, a sheep. The sheep looks just like the sheep in "Charlie Needs a Cloak"! The class then draws their own version of the sheep.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This book shows us how to make a rug. The author is very special. Do you think this is fiction or nonfiction? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">February 11 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__The Goat in the Rug__ by Geraldine as told to Charles L. Blood and Martin Link, illustrated by Nancy Winslow Parker **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Songs from the Loom: a Navajo girl learns to weave__ by Monty Roessel **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Use the cards, to review the steps to make a rug. Have students hold the cards, and the remaining students work to put the student with cards in the right order.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">February Vacation
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">February 18 **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">February 25 **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Let's go to France for a story that is fiction but based on a real person. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, Ms. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fact and fiction. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Award winning books: Caldecott Medal. This book won the Caldecott Medal in 1993.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Mirette on the High Wire__ by Emily Arnold McCully **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today's story is so fantastic, you won't believe it is true! We think the illustrations are thrilling. What do you think? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After showing some of the wonderful pictures in this book, we watch the video of this amazing story. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This book won the Caldecott Medal in <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">2004.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">March 4 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video: __The Man Who Walked Between the Towers__ by Mordecai Gerstein **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Let's read two great books about a carnivore. One book is nonfiction, this other is a cautionary tale. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After reviewing some facts about great white sharks, see how these facts are used in our humorous fiction story.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">March 11 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nonfiction books: __Great White Shark__ by Jason Cooper, ****<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Great White Shark__ ****<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> by Jody Rake, and more **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video: __The Great White Man-Eating Shark, A Cautionary Tale__ by Margaret Mahy **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Do you like pizza? You will like it even more after today! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's fun learning how to make a pizza in our nonfiction book __Pizza Man__. We laugh with Pete while watching entertaining video version of the story written by William Steig.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">March 18 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nonfiction book: __Pizza Man__ ** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">by Marjorie Pillar **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video: __Pete's a Pizza__ by William Steig **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How much do you know about bats and sleeping? You'll know a lot when you leave library today! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">March 25 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nonfiction books about bats **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Video: Reading Rainbow __Stellaluna__ by Janell Cannon **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today, we read the fact and fiction of small children. We think you will recognize what is real and what is made up. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Folder: Hawkes, Kevin)
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">April 1 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">Nonfiction books about new babies in the family **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Wicked Big Todlah__ by Kevin Hawkes **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">nonfiction & fiction **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This week we welcome author/illustrator Kevin Hawkes. Let's learn about him! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">April 8 **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Books written and/or illustrated by Kevin Hawkes**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Kevin Hawkes powerpoint**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">School Vacation Week
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">April 15 **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dogs are intelligent, loyal, and devoted animals with an incredible sense of smell. Some dogs also do work. Let's look at the fact and fiction of what they do! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">April 22 **
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">Nonfiction books about service dogs **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Dogs at Work__ by Julia Barnes **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Dogs with a Job__ by Barbara Patten
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Dogs on Duty__ by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Officer Buckle and Gloria__ by **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After brainstorming a list of jobs that dogs do, skim through __Dogs at Work__. How did we do? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Follow this by reading the fun tale of police partners, Officer Buckle and Gloria.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear Grade One Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Why does author/illustrator, Mo Willems, always include a picture of a pigeon on the endpapers of his books? Today's lesson may give you some good ideas about an answer! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">Draw the pigeon along with Mo and then create your own title of a brand new pigeon story. Add details to your picture.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">April 29 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">DVD: __Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Mo Willems school visit)__ (DVD DON) **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Is an illustrator important to a story? You can decide after today's stories! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">May 6 **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Wolf's Coming**__ **by Joe Kulka**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Wait No Paint**__ **by Bruce Whatley**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today, we have another pig and wolf tale. How many ways can a story be told? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">May 13 **
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig__ **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;"> by Eugenios Trivizas

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What would happen if you fell into a book of fairy tales? Would the stories srill end "happily ever after"? Let's find out what happened to Herb one strange night. Enjoy today's story! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">May 20 **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book__ by Lauren Child


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">May 28 **


 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__The Undone Fairytale__ by Ian Lendler **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today is your lucky day! We have three funny stories. One has no words, one has few words and one has lots of words pronounced in a way that will make you chuckle. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Folder: My Lucky Day)
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">June 3 **
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Where's Walrus__ by Stephen Savage **
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__Duck! Rabbit!__ by Amy Rosenthal **
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 1.5;">__My Lucky Day__ by Keiko Kasza **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today, we read a true story about a family of ducks in Japan. Does this story remind you of a fictional story about ducks in Boston? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">June 10 **
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Chibi, A True Story from Japan__ by Barbara Brenner **
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Make Way for Ducklings__ by Robert McCloskey **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">June 17 **


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">June 24 **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dear First Grade Library Learners,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sincerely,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ms. Rote and Mrs. Engdahl

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Summer Reading