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 1. "Hanscom CARES"; discuss how school theme is carried out in the library.  2. Rules:  a. Follow the directions the first time they are given.  b. Listen, sitting up straight with your hands and feet to yourself during story or viewing time.  c. Raise your hand and wait to be called upon.  d. One person speaks at a time during stories and discussions.  e. Use library voices (whisper) and library feet (walk).  f. Treat books and people with care and respect.  3. If a class follows rules, a Sunflower Award will be given. Five Sunflowers mean a free period in the library with special materials and activities.  3. Consequences if rules not observed:  a. Warning  3. Consequences if rules not observed:  a. Warning  b. Time out <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> c. Pink slip sent to office <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 4. Explain how students may take out 2 books per week and an unlimited amount of books for projects. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 5. Discuss class schedule, proper entrance, joke, story/skills, book selection (curriculum coordinates with computer and classroom plus lessons unique to library). <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 6. Take biographical photo of students. Students make their call number and line up as if they are biographies on a shelf. This activity builds teamwork and emphasizes a key alphabetical concept in library organization. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 7. Provide book bags for library books ("Read, Return,Repeat") and decorate a "library day reminder" hanger to put on their bedroom door. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 8. Choose books.


 * <span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> September 10,11, 2009 ** <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Itinerary:

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. What do you call a nervous zucchini? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. An edgy veggie. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Talk about favorite book and/or author. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Discuss how to cite a book and Web site. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 4. Read folktale by Ed Young, __What About Me?__ (398.2 YOU)Y: Philomel Books, 2002. ISN 9780399236242 <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 80%;"><span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A young boy determinedly follows the <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 144%;"> instructions of the Grand Master in the hope of gaining knowledge, only to be surprised as he acquires it. Based on a Sufi tale. This moving tale is illustrated with beautiful collages reminiscent of middle eastern images. The message is to value one's old knowledge while gaining new.


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<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Itinerary: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke -an example of word play with "almost-sound-alike words" <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Review of **<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Reference Skills ** <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> : Definition of a General Reference Book; specific definitions of a dictionary and an encyclopedia; practice using both tools: **<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Investigate, Study, Detect, Explore, Search, Think Inspect, Examine, Discover, Observe and Read!!! ** <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Choose books for pleasure, check out and read.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> October 23, 24, 2009 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Itinerary: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke -variation on the "almost-sound-alike words" <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Get to know State Reference Books: __Facts and Symbols__ and __From Sea to Shining Sea__. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Choose books for pleasure and projects, check out and read.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> October 29, 30, 2009 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Itinerary: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke-a mini or streamlined version of a **Limerick** invented by comic poet Ogden Nash called a **Limick**. A Limerick is a light or humorous verse with a specific rhythm and rhyme scheme. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Use Reference Skills and State Reference Books to research information for classroom state project. Take accurate notes with correct spelling and capital letters for the first letter of the name of states, cities, countries.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> **Very Scary Hairy Pet** <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> It's true my tarantula's terribly hairy <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> She's grey like a shadow; she's Halloween-scary

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I like that my spider looks gruesome and tough <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 'Cause now both my parents stay out of my stuff! <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Salas, Laura Purdie. __A Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets__. Minnesota, Capstone Press, 2009.

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<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> November 12,13, 2009 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q: Why did the lion spit out the clown? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A: Because he tasted funny.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> November 19,20, 2009 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Nurse: One of the doctors will see you now. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Patient: Which doctor? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Nurse: No, just a regular one. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Read: __Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing__ by April Jones Prince; illustrated by Francois Roca. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Summary: Upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, P.T. Barnum and his twenty-one elephants parade across to prove to everyone that the bridge is safe.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> November 26,27 2009-THANKSGIVING

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> **Q:** Why does Santa have three gardens? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> **A** : So he can ho-ho-ho. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> **2** .Complete research, writing and transfer of information to storyboard/script. Record works cited if not noted. Practice audio with a partner.
 * <span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> December 3,4, 2009 ** <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> **1** . Joke: Seasonal humor using Homophone (words having same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling).

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> December 10, 11, 2009 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke about voting to recognize Massachusetts Primary Vote <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q: Where do Polar Bears vote? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A: The North Poll

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//<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> • a record of the number of votes cast in an election. //======

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//<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> • ( the polls) the places where votes are cast in an election : the polls have only just closed. //======

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//<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> either of the two locations ( North Pole or South Pole) on the surface of the earth (or of a celestial object) that are the northern and southern ends of the axis of rotation. See also celestial pole, magnetic pole. //====== <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Tape Geopoem productions with backdrops and props about southeastern and southwestern states.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> December 17,18, 2009 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q: Why did the elf push his bed into the fireplace? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A: He wanted to sleep like a log. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Read: __Elijah's Angel__ by Michael Rosen; illustrated by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Summary: At Christmas-Hanukkah time, a Christian woodcarver gives a carved angel to a young Jewish friend, who struggles with accepting the Christmas gift until he realizes that friendship means the same thing in any religion. A poignant story of tolerance and peace.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> December 24,25 2009-Holiday

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> January 7,8, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q: Where do horses live? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A: In neigh-borhoods. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. More reference skills; view tape: "How to use The World Almanac." <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Practice using __The World Almanac For Kids__ with Martin Luther King, Jr. questions.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> January 14, 15, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke: __No Fun in Months__ <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> The teacher wrote on the board, "I ain't had no fun in months." <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Then she said, "Johnny, how should I correct that?" <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Johnny replied, "Maybe you should get a new social life." <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Mexico! <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Find Jalisco on the map of Los Estados Unidos de México <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Read: __Borreguita and the Coyote A Trickster Tale from Jalisco__ by Verna Aardema; illustrated by Petra Mathers <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Summary: A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up. Compare to trickster tale in SW USA. Note how much of the USA used to be n Mexico and similarities of stories.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Titles for USA culture about coyote that goes with //Borreguita// tale from Mexico, include: m Jalisco > __Summary__ : Coyote is tricked by some butterflies who laugh so hard about their joke that they cannot fly straight. > __Summary__ : Coyote has the delicate task of creating the first human being, but all the other animals insist that man be modeled after them. This is a version of an ancient Native American myth. > __Summary__ : Coyote arranges the stars in the shapes of his animal friends.
 * <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Taylor, Harriet Peck. //Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies// . 1995. New York: Macmillan Books for Young Readers.
 * <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Sage, James. //Coyote Makes Man// . 1994. New York: Simon & Schuster Books.
 * <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Taylor, Harriet Peck. Coyote Places the Stars. 1993. New York: Macmillan Books.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> January 21,22, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A: What weighs 2000 pounds, has big ears, tusks, and two trunks? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q: An elephant going on vacation. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Dahl, Michael. //__The Everything Kids' Joke Book: Side-splitting, rib-tickling fun!__//

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Mexico!

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Select Books

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> January 28,29, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> __HOT DOG__ <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I have a hot dog for a pet, <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> The only kind my folks would let <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Me get. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> He does smell sort of bad <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> And yet, <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> He absolutely never gets <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> The sofa wet. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> We have a butcher for a vet, <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> The strangest vet you ever met. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Guess we're the weirdest family yet, <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> To have a hot dog for a pet. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> From: Silverstein, Shel. //A Light in the Attic//. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Look at new books (a winter treat!). <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Choose books to check out

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> February 4,5, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke: Ground Hog Day Jokes <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. What's green, has four legs and jumps out of it's hole on February 2nd? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. The Ground Frog! <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. Where to sick groundhogs go? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. To the hogpital. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. What do you call a royal groundhog? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. A crowned hog.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Yucatan Penninsula <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Read Mayan Folktake, history and customs: Corn maize, maiz <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Title of book: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Select and check out books, read at tables, color Maize God Mayan art

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> February 11,12, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke: Valentine's Day <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. Do skunks celebrate Valentine's Day? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. Sure, they're very scent-imental! <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Homophone: one or two or more words having the same sound but differing in spelling, origin, and meaning. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> "sentimental"= very emotional esp. romantic feelings vs. "scent-imental"

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Valentine's Day Poem by Jack Prelutsky:

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I bought a box of chocolates <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A present for my mother <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> They looked so good I tasted one, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> And then I tried another.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> They both were so delicious <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> That I ate another four, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> And then another couple, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> And then half a dozen more.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I couldn't seem to stop myself, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I nibbled on and on, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Before I knew what happened <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> All the chocolate was gone.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I felt a little guilty, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I was stuffed down to my socks, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I ate my mother's valentines, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> I hope she likes the box.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Mexico: Let's travel to Mexico City in the Distrito Federal. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Read the legend of Mexico's best loved volcanoes: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Resources used to show volcanoes: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> -Library of Natural Disasters: Volcanoes. 2009. Chicago: World Book. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> ISBN: 9780716698319 (REF 551.21 VOL) p. 18 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> -Park, Louise. __Natural Disasters: Volcanoes__. 2007. North Mankato, WI: Smart Apple Media. ISBN: 9781599201108 (551.21 PAR) p. 14-15
 * <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Ixtaccihuatl (Ixta)
 * <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Popocatepetl (Popo)

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Review flag symbolism.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Select books and complete Mayan corn figure.

. <span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> February 18,19, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> FEBRUARY VACATION WEEK

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> February 25,26, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Washington's Birthday Joke: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. Was General Washington a handsome man? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. Yes, he was George-eous

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Map- Find Oaxaca <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Read realistic fiction: A picture book about Oaxaca: __Saturday Market__ by Patricia Grossman; illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Summary: This artfully illustrated book introduces us to the many vendors and their wares at the local market and lets us feel like like we are right there ready to purchase something. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 4. Choose books <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 5. Complete Mexican flag or Mayan figure.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> March 4,5, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Discuss landforms and the topographic features of Mexico. Demonstrate this by using www.worldatlas.com. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Decorate folders with objects, symbols, maps, words, ideas from Mexico. Use books for ideas! Complete flag, Mayan corn figure, or anything else and staple pages to your folder. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 4. Read the __Story of Colors / La Historia de los Colores, A Folktale from the Jungle of Chiapas__ ; <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Written by Subcomandante Marcos; illustrated by Domitila Dominguez; translated by Anne Bar Din. This is a passionate and very colorful folktale from the indigenous people of Chiapas. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 5. Select books.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> March 11,12, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Do we do Dewey? Yes, we do! A lesson to introduce the Dewey Decimal System so you won't forget it!! We shall compare the parts of the body to the ten subject areas of the Dewey Decimal system by labeling an appealing Gingerbread person. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Select books. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 4. Read Silently.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> March 18,19, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Spring Garden Joke: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. How many feet are in a yard? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. It depends how many people are standing in it. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Do a Dewey Tale! Using a Madlibs format, search the room for the words that the Dewey numbers represent to complete the story. Warning, some will make you laugh!! <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Select books and read quietly.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> March 25,26 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1.Joke: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. Did you hear about the monkey who left bits of his lunch all over the computer? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. His dad went bananas. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. "Culture of Canada" <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> After viewing the film list as many examples of "culture" as you can. Then, be ready to describe your favorite part of this lively and informative interview. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Choose books and read silently

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> April 1,2 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Canada <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Choose and check out books

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> April 8,9, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke: <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q. What would you get if you crossed a meat-eating dinosaur and a giraffe? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A. Tyrannosaurus NECKS! (example of wordplay-rhymes with REX) <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Canada <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Choose and check out books; sit at tables and read quietly to practice etiquette needed in a public or base library.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> April 15, 16, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1. Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2.Exploring Canda Through Children's Literature: Read __**Duncan's Way**__ <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Wallace, Ian. __**Duncan's Way**__. 2000. Toronto, Ontario: Grounwood Books/Douglas McIntyre. ISBN:9780789426796. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Summary: seven

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> April 22,23 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> APRIL VACATION WEEK

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> April 29,30, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1.JOKE <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q: Why was the baseball player invited to go on the camping trip? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A: Because they needed somebody to PITCH the tent!!! <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Rosenberg, Pam. __**Sports Jokes**__. MN: The Child's World, 2004.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2.Exploring Canada through Children's Literature: Read __** T he H ockey S weater**__ by Roch Carrier c. 1979. Translated from the original French by Sheila Fishman. Illustrated by Sheldon Cohen. In 1946 in Ste. Justine, Quebec (pop. 1200) a boy's life revolved around hockey, specifically trying to emulate Maurice Richard, #9 on the Montreal Canadiens. When his mother orders a new hockey sweater from an English department store, there is a problem when a Blue Toronto Maple Leafs sweater (jersey) is sent instead of the red, white and blue colors of the Montreal Canadiens. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Prior to reading the story, students will view five minutes of the DVD "The Geography of Canada" and be introduced to the names of the Provinces and Territories of Canada as well as see some footage representative of the huge Province of Quebec. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Select books.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> May 6,7, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1.Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Q: April showers bring May flowers. What do May flowers bring? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> A: Pilgrims!

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Watch short portion of a DVD that describes the geography of the Canadian Northwest Territories. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> DVD: Canada for Children Series: The Geography of Canada. 2004. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Wynnewood, PA: Schlessinger Media (division of Library Video Company).

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Read __Baseball Bats for Christmas__ by Michael Arvaarluk; <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka. c. 1990. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> An autobiographical story from Nunavet, Northwest Territories <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> __Summary:__ A young boy celebrates Christmas with his family and friends while living in Repulse Bay, a remote area in the Northwest Territories of Canada. When six trees ("standing ups") are delivered to the small community, the children figure out a way to put them to good use.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Choose Books and return overdues.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;"> May 13, 14, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1.Joke

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. Begin reading aloud the Canadian Arctic adventure novel __Trapped in Ice__. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Walters, Eric. __Trapped in Ice__. 1997. New York: Puffin Books.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> __Summary__: Thirteen-year-old Helen and her eleven-year-old brother Michael are aboard an expedition ship in the Canadian Arctic when the captain and crew are trapped in the freezing ocean waters. Helen keeps a diary and writes of the harrowing adventure the crew and her family endure as they leave the ship and travel on ice floes until they reach land. This novel is based on the true story of the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition.

<span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. Read chosen books.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;">May 20, 21, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1.Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;">May 27, 28, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1.Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. See tape of book __Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge__ by Mem Fox; c 1989. This is a story about sharing and caring. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3. What's a memory quilt square <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 4. Read __The Promise Quilt__ by Candice F. Ransom; c 2002. A Civil War tale of sacrifice, remembering and growing wise. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 5. Last time to check out books.

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;">June 3, 4, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1.Joke <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 2. National Parks--What are they? <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> Individual research on parks. Find the answers in your special book using library and reading schema. <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 3.Please return overdue books!

<span style="background-color: #252eda; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%; text-align: center;">June 10, 11, 2010 <span style="color: #252eda; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> 1.Joke

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