2007-2008+Library+Curriculum

= = = Library Curriculum from the 2007-2008 School Year  =

**Kindergarten:** "Gertrude McFuzz" from //Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories// by Dr. Seuss
 * Week of December 3, 2007 **

**Grade 1:** //Pinky and Rex// series by James Howe, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

**Grade 2:** //My Rows and Piles of Coins// by Tololawa M. Mollel, illustrated by E. B. Lewis

**Grade 3:** Continue reading //Mr. Crumb's Secret// by Phyllis J. Perry

** Week of December 10, 2007 ** **Kindergarten:** //The Chanukkah Guest// by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Giora Carmi

**Grade 1:** //The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes// by Linda Glaser, illustrated by Nancy Cote

**Grade 2:** Video: //In the Month of Kislev: A Story of Hanukkah// by Nina Jaffe, ill Louise August

**Grade 3:** Finish reading //Mr. Crumb's Secret// by Phyllis J. Perry

** Week of December 17, 2007 **

**Kindergarten:** //Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree// by Robert Barry

**Grade 1:** //How Santa Got His Job// by Stephen Krensky, illustrated by SD Schindler

**Grade 2:** //Tree of Cranes// by Allen Say

**Grade 3:** //How Santa Got His Job// by Stephen Krensky, illustrated by SD Schindler

**Week of January 28, 2008** **Kindergarten**: Two reactions to snow! //Gregory's Shadow// by Don Freeman, author of beloved K book, //Corduroy// //Snip, Snip...Snow!// by Nancy Poydar

**Grade 1:** Groundhog through the seasons! //Go to Sleep Groundhog!// by Judy Cox, illustrated by Paul Meisel //Groundhog Day// by Amy Margaret (used for introducing facts about the holiday, not read in entirety)

**Grade 2:** //The Rough-Face Girl// by Rafe Martin and David Shannon Mental imaging with an adaptation of an Algonquin Indian Cinderella Tale by famed folklorist and illustrator

**Grade 3:** Using //The World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia,// students will apply reference skills learned in our previous class and find information about two assigned topics. Notes will be taken using key words and short phrases. A "works cited" (bibliography) entry will be kept for each subject which will include 1. the title of the article, 2. the name of the encyclopedia, 3. the volume, and 4. the pages. On this assignment, we will use numbers rather than punctuation on works cited entries.

**Week of February 4, 2008** To honor Chinese New Year 2008, The Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7th... **Kindergarten:** Show p.15 depicting Chinese New Year in //A Look at China// by Helen Frost Show inventions, foo and more food, tools, animals, musical instruments in //Look What Came From China// by Miles Harvey //Cat and Rat, The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac// by Ed Young

**Grade 1:** Show dragon on //Chinese New Year// by Tricia Brown View tape of the book //Sam and the Lucky Money// by Karen Chinn -note two ways Sam's mom communicated with him without speaking -Why was Sam lucky?

**Grade 2:** //The Story of Noodles// by Ying Chang Compestine and Yongsheng Xuan

**Grade 3:** Reference Skills: how to look up information about a person in an encyclopedia, record notes and cite the source.

**Week of February 11, 2008** **Kindergarten:** //Rhyme Time Valentine// by Nancy Poydar

**Grade 1:** //Where's Our Mama// by Diane Goode //Mama's Perfect Present// by Diane Goode

**Grade 2:** //The Dove's Letter// by Keith Baker

**Grade 3:** //Atlanta's Race: A Greek Myth// retold by Shirley Climo, ill. by Alexander Koshkin

**Week of February 25, 2008** **Kindergarten:** "What Will Little Bear Wear?" from //Little Bear// by Else Minarik, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Compare "I Can Read" version with animated film. Winter clothing, childhood feelings, humor, caring themes famous author illustrator team

**Grade 1:** //Pizza Man// by Marjorie Pillar and //Pete's a Pizza// by William Steig Identifying factual and fictional elements of books using a beloved food that is uniquely portrayed by both authors

**Grade 2:** //John Henry// by Julius Lester and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney A new version of a tradional Tall Tale to end Black History Month. Renowned mulitcultural author and illustrator, Caldecott Honor

**Grade 3:** Eric Carle video A preparation for third grade study of this famous artist in Mrs. Lubin's Art Class. Carle demonstrates his unique collage technique, including making paper and explains why he often makes books that incorporate "play" in them.

**Week of March 3, 2008** **Kindergarten**: //All Dressed up and Nowhere To Go// by Daniel Joseph A climatic mixup of snow clothes!

//The Jacket I Wear In the Snow// by Shirely Neitzel, pictures by Nancy Winslow Parker A poem, a rebus, and a familiar situation that will make every reader smile with recognition especially with the accompanying, colorful storytelling pieces.

K's design a jazzy sock that isn't "wrinkled a lot"!

**Grade 1:** //"Charlie Needs A Cloak"//, story and pictures by Tomie de Paola 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.

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.

**Grade 2:** //Swamp Angel// by Anne Isaacs, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky To recognize Women's History Month, a whopper of a Tall Tale about a Tennessee woman who wrestles a Bear! Caldecott illustrator

**Grade 3:** Seal **Research** Preparation for sea mammal unit in spring science and for sea mammal folkloric unit in library. **STEP ONE: WHAT DO I WANT TO KNOW?** What is my topic? What are key words or other words related to my topic? What questions do I have about my topic? **STEP TWO: WHERE CAN I FIND IT?** (brainstorm and select the best sources)

**Week of March 10, 2008** **Kindergarten**: //Cross Country Cat// by Mary Calhoun, illustrated by Erick Ingraham A beloved old winter story with rhythm, the rhythm of a cross-country skier swinging through snowy meadows. In this instance, the skier is a sassy Siamese cat. This high spirited tale almost convinces one that it might have happened!!

**Grade 1:** //The Goat in the Rug// by Geraldine as told to Charles L. Blood and Martin Link, illustrated by Nancy Winslow Parker Geraldine, a goat, describes each step as she and her Navajo friend make a rug, from the hair clipping and carding to the dyeing and actual weaving. This book continues our exploration of fact an fiction in books. While it has facts, it is a fiction book-why? Do goats usually write books?!!

If time, let's enjoy a little humor with //The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)// retold by Philemon Sturges and ilustrated with collages by Amy Walrod We know a lot about Pizza from our lesson two weeks ago, so sit back and enjoy this retelling of a folktale with an enduring message!

**Grade 2:** //Feliciana Feydra LeRoux// by Tynia Thomassie, illustrated by Cat Bowman Smith Our Tall Tale unit continues with the exciting adventure involving a little child who is determined to hunt alligators even though her six brothers tell her she can't 'cause she's a "girl" and a "shrimp"! The setting is the bayou in Cajun Country in southern Louisiana where people welcome anyone to "pass a good time" in their company! A pleasant nod toward "Women's History" month.

**Grade 3:** Using **NOTES ON MY TOPIC** page: **Question/Problem** Overarching question: In some folkloric stories they say that seals are closest to humans. After studying the topic of seals do you agree with this statement?

Continue gathering facts about seals that will help you answer this question.

Refer to questions generated last week for beginning of notes.

Start with Reference books that will help you define your topic, give you more key words, and basic information.

Do a Works Cited entry for //Scholastic Children's Dictionary//, //Webster's New World Dictionary// and //The World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia// which are the Reference sources we shall use today.

**Week of March 17, 2008** **Kindergarten**: //Stranger in the Woods// by Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick A photographic fantasy created by two noted wildlife photographers. There is even a recipe for a snowman. This book is described as "beta carotene for the spirit in everyone" and is our perfect way of ending our winter stories and welcoming spring!

**Grade 1:** ***add for 2009 humor videos: __Miss Nelson has a Field Day__ and __Strega Nona__ Class will retell orally //The Three Little Pigs// using the book by Paul Galdone as a prompt and guide. Most will agree that they have heard this story many, many times which is the way with "Folktales" which are found on the 398.2 stacks by our computer room door.

//Wait No Paint!// by Bruce Whatley. This quirky retelling of the three little pigs is full of surprises, laughs, and hilarious wordplay and illustrations and encourages readers to look at this favorite story in a whole new way.

**Grade 2:** //Fannie in the Kitchen// by Deborah Hopkinson Start of biogrpahy unit, where some people's real lives are so amazing as to feel like Tall Tales. This Boston lady influenced how all modern cooking is done. We will learn that biogrpahy is located in a separate section of libraries and is arranged in alphabetical order by the person's last name unless they are royalty or a rock star!

**Grade 3:** Note taking on //World of Animals// a topical reference set

**Week of March 24, 2008** **Kindergarten**: //Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile// by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert and illustrated by Julie Paschkis A lively retelling of a Liberian story where a vain chicken gains humility by cleverly outwitting a crocodile. This begins our unit on "Smart Chicks" and is a fitting and entertaining end to women's history month.

**Grade 1:** //Llama// by Caroline Arnold with photographs by Richard Hewett and //Harley// by Star Livingstone and illustrated by Molly Bang Using the index of //LLama//, answer questions about the animal that are generated by the class. Then read the heart-warming story of Harley and his sheep and see how many real "llama facts" there are in this fictional story. By the way, all the characters, animals and events are real so why is this in the fiction section?!!!

**Grade 2:** //Chico// by Sandra Day O'Connor and illustrated by Dan Andreasen(B OCO). A true story from the childhood of the first woman Supreme Court Justice. This is the second in our study of biographies. Biography books are arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the person except for royalty and Rock Stars. At HPS they are located by the wall on the left of the library office. Read through p. 17 of Greene, Carol. //Sandra Day O"Connor: First Woman on the Supreme Court// to learn more about her childhood.

**Grade 3:** Continue Note taking using //World of Animals,// a topical reference set (hard), //Dolphins, Seals, and other Sea Mammals// by Mary Jo Rhodes and David Hall (grade level), and //Seals// by Colleen Sexton ("Blastoff! Readers-2 level) and maybe, //A Colony of Seals// by Vivki Leon (good source for reading captions for information)

**Week of March 31, 2008** **Kindergarten:** Galdone, Paul. //The Little Red Hen// and Pinkney, Jerry. //The Little Read Hen//. Bang, Molly. //Harley//. (first half-up to the part where the coyotes attack after Harely has come to the farm (eerie, black and white two page spread intensifies excitement of stoping point!) This fiction book, where all the characters are modeled on real people and animals tells the story of one woman farmers desire to save her sheep from coyotes and a llama named Harley is the solution.

**Grade 2:** McElroy, Lisa Tucker with help from Courtney O"Connor. //Meet My Grandmother: She's a Supreme Court Justice//.(B O'CON). Fascinating look at the adult life of Sandra Day O'Connor as seen through the eyes of her granddaughter. Has photos of the inside of the Supreme Court Building including the library, the chambers, her office with Arizona memorabilia, and gym where the SPJ works out!

**Grade 3:** Seal Research

**Week of April 7, 2008** **Kindergarten,** **Grade 1** **, Grade 2, Grade 3** Tunnell, Michael O. //Mailing May//. illustrated by Ted Rand (one of Ms. Rote's favorite illustrators!) (FIC TUN)

A fictionalized, picture book account of a true story where a young girl was sent as a chick on a train mail car to visit her beloved grandmother because her family could not afford to send her as a regular passenger on the train. The train was the olny way to travel to this isolated village in Idaho. This delightful story of a loving familyeand history of the U.S. mail serivce is our choice for a curriculum night activity. Parents and children willl wrok together to choose a traveling location, weigh the child ( as if they were May, the chick!), read a chart of fares based upon weight, do the math and figure out how much it wil cost to travel, design the stamps with proper amounts of postage and put on a tag, ready to travel to the next curriculum night activity in another room!

**Week of April 14, 2008** **Kindergarten**: Stevens, Janet and Crummel, Susan Steven. //Cook-A-Doodle-Doo//. illustrated by Janet Stevens Sprightly sister team create a lively tale based upon a supposed recipe from the little red hen. Hillarious mix ups in interpreting a recipe make this a wonderful place to learn about measuring, math terms, and homonyms. We use a video tpe version of the book which is introduced and narrated by the sisters, and send how the red hen's famous recipe for strawberry shortcake for thoses who want to try to cook it with their family!

**Grade 1:** Bang. Molly. //Harley//. (complete second half of book) (some classes), see video tape of llama and sheep in Lincoln, MA taped by Ms. Rote

Lin, Grace, writer and illustrator. //The Ugly Vegetables.// An "Every Voice Counts" Book about a Chinese family that maintains tradions and gains friends in the neighborhood.

**Grade 2:** St. George, Judith. //You're On Your Way, Teddy Rooselvelt//. illustrated by Mat Faulkner.(B ROO **)** Studentsa are amazed to learn that the man onthe horse in the movie "Night at the Museum" was a real person with a life like a tall tale!

Continues our look at biographies of people in our g o v e r n m e n t and pondering how their childhood contributed to their success.

**Grade 3:** Yolen, Jane. //Greyling, A Picture Story from the Islands of Shetland//. (FIC YOL) Our first look at the folklore of Seals by a remarkable New England author. A brief introduction to her life in "Talking With Jane Yolen by Jeanette Larson in //BookLinks//, March 2008, p.18-20.

**Week of April 21, 2008 School Vacation**

**Week of April 28, 2008** **Kindergarten**: //The Life Cycle of a Chicken(636.5)// and //Life Cycle of a Chicken(636.5)// and Hutchens, Pat. //Rosies Walk// We read two non fiction books on chickens, written at K/1 reading level, and then discuss where a fiction writer made use of facts in the jaunty story of a simple hen unwittingly tricking a "predator" fox as she makes her way back to her henhouse. ** add for 2009: video: __Chickens aren't the Only Ones__ by Heller (Reading Rainbow: Birds of a Feather)

**Grade 1:** McCully, Emily Arnold. //Mirette on the High Wire//. (FIC MCC) A fictionalized picture book absed upon a real character. Show internet sites of real tight rope walker and his feats that McCaully based her story on. McCully is a master of blending fact and fiction and making history come alive as a result. This book won the Caldecott Medal.

**Grade 2:** Splash and Senator Edward M. Kennedy. //My Senator and Me: A Dog's Eye View of Washington, D.C.// illustrated by David Small (325) The story of the life of our Massachusetts Senator as he works to pass a bill to fund education. Splash is his beloved Portuguese Water Dog and provides us with an informative and enteratining of his life as an insider in the nation's capital. This is an example of a factual book that contains biographical and anthropomorphic (where animals talk and act like people) elements.

**Grade 3:** Gerstein, Mordecai. //The Seal Mother//**.** Caldecott winning author, illustrator does another interpretation of a Selkie tale emphsizing how folklore can be retold in a variety meaningful ways, and how exciting and "new" each retelling can be.

**Week of May 5, 2008** **Kindergarten**: Wallace, Karen. //My Hen is Dancing//. illustrated by Anita Jeram (636.5 WAL) and Dunrea, Olivier. //Gossie//. Two more books about our feathered friends. Wlaaces's book looks like a picture book but has fun facts and pictures about a little boy's hen. We see all the elments that we rad about in our previous books but presented ina new way. We ten look at a man who loves ducks and created a little character who loves red boots. Imagine a duck needing boots? This tiny book is fun!

**Grade 1:** Gerstein, Mordicai. //The Man Who Walked Between the Towers//. (791.3 GER) Caldecott Winner An exciting, colorful account of the real tight rope walker, Philippe Petit who in 1974, walked on a rope that he had strung between the NYC World Trade Center Towers - towers that no longer exist since 9/11/01. Once, again, we'll look at on line accounts of his real exploits. We shall look at this book and its remarkable art and fold out pages and also see the story in a splendid animated verson.

Rocks Hurst, Carol Otis. //Rocks in His Head//. (FIC HUR) illustrated by James Stevenson While this books presents itself as an appealing picture book, it is also an inspiring biography of the author's father who never gave up his dream and love of collecting and identifying rocks. This is a continuation of our biogrphical work and shows the life of a person in ordinary circumstances (in contrast to the govenment officials that we read about), can be extraordinary!

**Grade 3:** After an introduction to a variety of Concrete Poems by selected authors, students will **write original Concrete** (seeing or shape poems)**Poems based on their weeks of Seal/Pinniped research and seal folk stories**. This is the "synthesis" part of their 4 step research process where they bring all their collected material to create a "product".

**Week of May 19, 2008** **Kindergarten**: Lobel, Arnold. //Frog and Toad Are Friends//. Read Chapter Four, //"The Letter//". Why is it funny when the snail says he'll deliver the letter "right away" after toad rushed home to write! See the film of the same chapter and compare the animated version with the book. How did the filmmaker show taht a lot of time had passed as the snail delivered the letter?! Display books: Morris, Dean, //Frogs and Toads//(597.8 MOR), Gerholdt, James. //Frogs, Amazing Amphibians//(597.8 GER), Arnosky, Jim, //All About Frogs//(597.80 ARN), Gerholdt, James, //Toads, Amazing Amphibians// (597.8 GER)

**Grade 1:** Cooper, Jason. //Great White Shark, Giants Among Us, Chapter One,// Taylor, Leighton. //Great White Sharks//, p. 16, 20, 22., and Mahy, Margaret. //The Great White Man-Eating Shark, A Cautionary Tale.// Fact and Fition about great whites!

**Grade 2:** Kerley, Barbara. //The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins//(B HAW). illustrated by Brian Selznick(Caldecott Honor that year) Display Riehecky, Janet. //Iguanodon(567.9 RIE)// a species that was part of Hawkins' work and Walker, Sarah. //Dinosaur// (A DK Eye Wonder Book) (567.9WAL) The true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889), who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about what these awe-inspiring ancient animals were like. We also look at modern books to show how ahead of his time his work was and also how important artists and how important they are to visualizing scientific concepts.

**Grade 3:** Cooper, Susan. //The Selkie Gir//l**.** illustrated by the late Warwick Hutton (esteemed for his interpretations of folk and mythic tales) A classic retelling of a seal transformation tale from the Northern Isles of Great Britain by Newbury Medal winning author who was origianlly from Wales.

**Week of May 26, 2008** The Last week to check out books at HPS library for this school year. **Kindergarten**: Every move counts as we imitate the steps and moves in Smalls, Irene. //Jonathan and His Mommy// and "Skeleton Dance", an animated film from the 1940's. (SD back by popular request of the K's!)

**Grade 1:** Yashima, Taro. //Crow Boy//. This beautiful old book won the Caldecott medal and is a wonderful way to acknowledge Asian Pacific Islander Month and our 2008 school theme, "Every Voice Counts"

**Grade 2:** Okimoto, Jean Davies. //Dear Ichiro//. (FIC OKI) illustrated by Doug Keith. ...a story of friendship, forgiveness and a love of baseball to recognize Asian Pacific Islander Month...fiction with reference to characters and events that were real

**Grade 3:** "//The Secret of Roan Inish//" -part two. Continue the fascinating tale of the Coneeney family and a Selkie. Th., Fri. Monday begin story

**Week of June 2, 2008** **All books are due this week!!!** **Kindergarten**: Van Leeuween, Jean. //Wait For Me Said Maggie Magee!// What it feels like to not be the littlest anymore! What is that chicken doing on the table; this isn't part of the "slick chick" unit !

**Grade 1:** World Environment Day Bryan, Ashley, illustrator. //What a Wonderful World//, original lyrics by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele. Read the book and sing with Louis Armstrong! Livingston, Myra Cohn. //Up In the Air//. Poetry and paintings that give the experience of flying and seeing the world from a different perspective.

**Grade 2:** De Paola, Tomie. //Here We All Are//. Chapter One. (B DEP) DePaola, Tomie. //My Baby Sister//. (E DEP) Film "At Home With Tomie DePaola" (This autobiography will complete our biography readings and whet the appetite for the six fascinating books in this series which are on the HPS Summer Reading list. Tomie is an artist and never expected to win a Newbury medal for writing, but that is how good these books are!) and //My Baby Sister, a biographical picture book which answers one of the questions in the biography.// View tape, //A Visit With Tomie dePaola,// and see the inside of Tomie's house, studio, and see photos and movies of his family. Have books //The Art Lesson, Tom//, //Strega Nonas'a Magic Lessons//, and //Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile// on display near T.V. since all are mentioned in the tape.

**Grade 3:** Complete Roan Inish, Th., Fri. Monday part two Read //Nicholas Pipe//, the story of a merman. How is this different from the Selkie tales?

**Week of June 9, 2008** **Kindergarten**: Carle, Eric. //Mr. SeaHorse//. Lots of sea animal facts in characteristic Carle collage style. We make stencil sea horses at library craft time.

**Grade 1:** McCloskey, Robert. //Burt Dow, Deep Water Man//. Get ready for summer reading with this Caldecott winning New England author of children's picture book classics. Burt has an unusual fishing experience in his tidely-idley boat, no doubt about it!

**Grade 2:** Read selections from Lois Lowry's three books on //Gooney Bird Green//, //Gooney Bird and the Room Mother//, //Gooney the Fabulous//. (FIC LOW) which are featured on the HPS summer reading list. A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name. The sequels extend Gooney's cleverness. In the latest she writes fables. Lois Lowry is a Newbury award winning author who was the daughter of a Naval Officer, had a son who was an U.S Air Force pilot whom she writes about in her autobiography, //Looking Back: A Book of Memories//, and was our guest author in 2005.

**Grade 3:** All different; one complete //Roan Inish//, one //Nicholas Pipe//, one //The Seal Prince//

**Week of June 16, 2008** **Kindergarten**: Introduce Hanscom Base Library Summer Activity Program: "Wild Reads @ Your Library" Willems, Mo. //I am Invited to a Party.// This is a new book on the HPS Summer Reading List which will make everyone want to go to the "Wild Reads" Activities at the Base Library!! McMullan, Kate and Jim. //Garbage Trucks//. McMllen, Kate and Jim. //I Stink!// and //I'm Dirty!//. Fun with unusual topics: "Dump it in, smash it down"

**Grade 1:** Introduce Hanscom Base Library Summer Activity Program: "Wild Reads @ Your Library" Lee, Dennis. //Alligator Pie.// A favorite poetry book of Ms. Rote!

**Grade 2:** Introduce Hanscom Base Library Summer Activity Program: "Wild Reads @ Your Library" Lender, Ian. //An Undone Fairytale//. A very funny book that is a perennial favorite for our summer readers.

**Grade 3:** Introduce Hanscom Base Library Summer Activity Program: "Wild Reads @ Your Library