Limerick lesson

Looking for some summer writing fun?  Try your hand at writing limericks.  They are so fun and funny!  Just ask any 3rd grader.  I created this LIMERICK lesson for 3rd graders, but anybody can watch it and write your own, following the directions.  You can even make up your own limerick about toilet paper (or NO toilet paper like I did)!  Have fun!
WATCH THE LESSON HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtAfh80ZNPw&feature=youtu.be  or  https://youtu.be/mtAfh80ZNPw

                                                                  

5th Grade Tucky Jo and Little Heart week of May 11

Today must be your lucky day!  Remember two weeks ago listening to Patricia Polacco's book Pink and Say?  Well, today you get to hear Patricia Polacco reading her own book about World War II.  Her story begins after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  It is set in the Philippines.  And, yes, it's really her voice that you'll hear -- kind of like an author visit, telling a true story of a soldier nicknamed Tucky Jo, the youngest recruit in the Pacific during World War II, and a little Filipino girl whom he calls Little Heart.  Click here to hear Patricia Polacco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVHdsTUEU4s

What a joy it has been reading to you and sharing the love of good books with you for so many years!  Congratulations on graduating from elementary school.  Please visit me often next year when you are middle schoolers so we can keep in touch!  Have a wonderful summer!

4th Grade Seashore Surprises May 11 week

Let's end our last library time together with a trip to the beach 🌊, an island off the coast of Florida surrounded by the ocean!  I'd love for you to learn about different kinds of seashells, driftwood, mangrove trees, underwater grass beds, seining for fish, seahorses, sea urchins, and more!  Maybe that will compel you to check out lots of ocean and ocean life books when we return to school!  Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton will introduce you to Rose Wyler's book Seashore Surprises as well as marine biologists who will show you surprises at the seashore that you can't even imagine.  I know what I'll be looking for if I go to the beach this summer!  I'll bet you'll make a (sand)bucket list of things to look for, too, after watching this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=465jl9KHQC8&t=1069s
(You can stop at 26:00 minutes)

Enjoy!  I'll see you next time!  Have a wonderful summer!

Iggy Peck and Box summer send-off library lesson May 11

Who is ready for summer 🌞, a great time to play and read 📚 and let your imagination go WILD?  I've made a video for you that contains some of my favorite ideas for summertime fun.  I hope you'll watch it and go wild with your creativity and imagination!  Happy summer...see you next year!  

Click here to hear Iggy Peck, Architect and What To Do With a Box by Jane Yolen:  https://youtu.be/EPJuDktfFZQ

                           

The Best Nest storytime May 4

Hello, my reading buddy friends!  Boy, do I have a story for you this week, and it includes a surprise visitor!  Hurry!  Click here to hear about my special visitor and The Best Nest by P. D. Eastman:    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEOO9njrQQ

   

4th Grade Dive to the Coral Reefs week of May 4

I'm sure you have been learning lots about the ocean. 🌊 Maybe you have even been to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta to see some amazing ocean animals, 🐬🐳 but what do you know about coral and coral reefs at the BOTTOM of the ocean?  When we return to school, maybe you would like to check out some non-fiction books about oceans and coral reefs, like the one in this video, Dive to the Coral Reefs, by Elizabeth Tayntor, Paul Erickson, and Les Koffman.  Did you know that coral only grows in warm tropical waters, like the water off Key West, Florida?  Would you like to scuba dive with LaVar Burton and a friend called the Coral Doctor who transplants coral to areas where the coral has been damaged or destroyed?  Well, put on your scuba gear and jump into the Reading Rainbow video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRzZ5LCrCY&t=135s

5th Grade Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation week of May 4

Here's one last Civil War story, and it is a mighty good one, Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation by Pat Sherman.  By the title, you can tell that it occurs at the end of the war.  It just might end up being your favorite of the stories we've read during the quarantine.  I  hope you'll email me to tell me which one you've enjoyed the most.  Now...on to Ben..click here:    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxC_YQDfUoU

P.S.  Look for next week's story, the last one for this school year.  It will be a surprise story about World War II.  You will NOT want to miss it!

The Storytelling Princess storytime for April 27 week

Hello, my storybook friends!  How about a great book for this week?  We haven't read a fairy tale lately, so how about today?  You're about to hear a fairy tale whose ending you do not know!  In fact, that's what the whole book is about!  You'll see.  Click here to hear The Storytelling Princess by Rafe Martin:  https://youtu.be/88mM9IB4Mvs

Don't forget your homework:
You make up a story whose ending NOBODY knows.  Maybe write it and illustrated it.  You can share it with your family; maybe Facetime to share it with your grandparents; maybe save it to show me when we get back to school.  Yes, I would like that!  

Don't forget to say this tongue twister five times as fast as you can:  Drake's Strait. 🌊 (You'll have to listen to the story to know what that's all about!)

Enjoy The Storytelling Princess!    https://youtu.be/88mM9IB4Mvs

4th Grade Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus week of April 27

Hello, everybody!  I heard that you've been studying oceans 🌊and deserts 🌵 .  Did you know that we have deserts right here in the United States?  You've probably heard about the Sahara Desert in Africa, the Arabian Desert on the Arabian peninsula in Asia, maybe even the Gobi Desert in China, but did you know the LARGEST desert in the world is in Antarctica!  Yes, really!  But today, I'd like for you to hear a story about a cactus 🌵 that grows ONLY in the American desert called the Sonoran Desert.  The desert is out west in Arizona and California, and if you want to see the giant, enormous, huge, gigantic,  mammoth, colossal, massive, monstrous (you get the idea) Saguaro cactus, well, you can do that by taking a Reading Rainbow🌈 field trip with LaVar Burton by clicking right here:        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OSbJLRmudY  You might picture this in your mind:  the largest Saguaro cactus on record was 78 feet tall, the size of 14 grown men standing on each other's shoulders.  Whoa!  Sorry to say it toppled over during a windstorm about 30 years ago. Oops!  Enjoy the Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus by Barbara Bash by watching the Reading Rainbow 🌈 video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OSbJLRmudY

Enjoy your virtual field trip!  🌵

5th Grade Pink and Say week of April 27

Sometimes 5th graders ask me what my favorite book 📚 in the library is.   Hmmm...that's hard to answer.  Really my favorite book is whichever book I'm holding when I'm reading to you!  The same thing is true with our Civil War picture books.  My favorite one today is Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco.  Remember in 4th grade when you were studying personal narratives and we read lots of her books, starting with My Rotten, Redheaded Older Brother?  Remember how we looked closely at her illustrations, too, how she starts with pencil ✐sketches and leaves the pencil marks for hair ✐, freckles ✐, skin ✐?  Remember how she sometimes places real family photographs in with her illustrations?  See if you can spy those things on the pages during this YouTube.  Oh, how I wish I could be with you as you listen to this reading of Pink and Say, especially at the end when Patricia Polacco explains who Say really was!  

Click here to get started:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLf5YJloTGY

Waiting is Not Easy! storytime April 20

Good morning, my friends!  How about a story for this week?  Click here to hear Waiting is Not Easy! by the wonderful Mo Willems:    https://youtu.be/kSSXn-4S8-c

Don't forget your homework:  
1.  practice patience
2.  sing the "Fruits of the Spirit" song to someone you love
3.  Click here  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRyu9fEEgs   
to watch Douglastalks.compatience  (Douglas Talks.com Patience)

4th grade My Little Island week of April 20

Have you been studying islands? There are islands ALL OVER THE WORLD; 🌎some are freezing and some are insufferably hot!  Would you like to fly away for a story My Little Island by Frane Lessac and a virtual field trip to the teeny, tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat with LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow?  Check out Montserrat's very strange foods and animals (including the mysterious 'mountain chicken'). There's an ocean view 🌊 everywhere you look!  Remember learning about volcanoes last week?  Well, 25 years ago, a very dormant volcano that had not erupted in centuries did erupt in 1995 and destroyed more than half of this island. 🌋 It kept erupting a little bit at the time for the next 15 years.  Now it is dormant again and has been since 2010.  Do you think it will erupt on this beautiful tiny island again?  Click the link to explore the island of Montserrat with LeVar.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_KgSiq6J4 
Enjoy your trip!

🌎🌋🌊

5th grade The Story of the H.L. Hunley and Queenie's Coin week of April 20

Interested in another wonderful Civil War book?  The Story of the H. L. Hunley and Queenie's Coin by Fran Hawk is a true tale of the world's first combat submarine, a Confederate submarine.  Spoiler alert: it sank in 1864, but what a history it had before its sinking!  It took explorers over 70 years to find the Titanic in her watery grave, but guess how long it took to find and raise The H.L. Hunley -- 136 years!  Wow!  She was finally raised from the ocean floor near Charleston, South Carolina, in 2000, is being cleaned and preserved, and is now on display in South Carolina.  What a piece of history!  Click the link to hear the true story of the H. L. Hunley and her brave crew members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTrwA6mGHJk

4th Grade Dorobo the Dangerous, Mt. Fuji, and Origami week of April 13

How would you like to:
1. learn to count to 5 in Japanese
2. hear a great story about Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain volcano, along with some interesting facts
3. learn to make your own origami Mt. Fuji

Well, what are we waiting for?   Click here to watch my video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBdOhOdIwAk

Then click below to see a very short video of the 36 Views of Mt. Fuji (although there really are 46).  I wonder if you can find Mt. Fuji in EVERY SINGLE PAINTING.  It's kind of like looking for Waldo.  Have fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2dqtcu2NN8

5th Grade Follow the Drinking Gourd week of April 13

There are so many stories and books to share about that time in our country's history called The Civil War.  I hope you enjoyed The Last Brother last week and also listened to the bugle sounds heard on both the North's and South's sides of the battlefields.

Today you get to watch the Reading Rainbow video called Follow the Drinking Gourd, a very famous song and book that will teach you much about the Underground Railroad.  Please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVjklXQLKFM&t=56s

I can hardly wait until we can see each other again.  In the meantime, read, wash your hands, stay home, and be thankful that we live in this wonderful nation!

The Easter Bunny That Overslept storytime April 13

Good morning, my friends!  How about a story?  Click here  https://youtu.be/p9O9cO2V_Sk 

to hear The Easter Bunny That Overslept.  Enjoy!

Easter Sunday lesson week of April 6, 2020

Please click the link below to see my storytelling lesson for the week of April 6, the week leading up to EASTER.  It's the lesson with the last six REAL Easter Eggs.
https://vimeo.com/404734516

Mrs. Darnell's Easter Sunday  video 

4th Grade lesson for April 6, 2020 week

Hello, my rain forest-studying friends!  Did you enjoy field-tripping to the Amazon with The Shaman's Apprentice last week? Did you and your family discuss the questions that relate to the story that I posted?
If you were in the library this week, I would read to you another story about the rain forest by the same author, Lynne Cherry, who has spent a lot of time studying in the rain forest.  Click HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0arFtHeVw&t=131s to hear The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest.   The kapok is HUGE, so tall that it emerges above all other trees.  To see a picture of a real kapok tree, click HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sTgIMQ2oDU
Speaking of kapok trees, why don't you grab a good book and read it under the TALLEST tree in your yard?  Pretend it's a kapok, but watch out for boa constrictors, monkeys, toucans, and sloths!

5th Grade lesson for April 6, 2020

More wonderful Civil War stories!  Did you enjoy Henry's Freedom Box last week?  Did you do the bathtub experiment to see what Henry's experience was like?  Email me to tell me your thoughts.

If we were in the library this week, I would read to you The Last Brother by Trinka Hakes Noble.  Each year when I finish the book, there's a long pause, like kids are deep in thought at the ending.  Click HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_t6XsrGUQk  to have the story read to you.  Gabe and Orlee are young buglers, one for the North and one for the South.  If you want to hear what the bugle calls that they played sounded like (charge, retreat, etc.), click HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QGf3W2BZw.  Be sure to listen to the end to hear the mournful tune called TAPS.
O, how I miss reading these wonderful stories to you!  Please email me your thoughts about these stories.  Let's stay in touch!

Palm Sunday Lesson Week of March 30th

Please click on the vimeo link below to see my storytelling lesson for this week, March 30, the week leading to Palm Sunday.  It's about the first SIX of the REAL Easter eggs!

https://vimeo.com/403003940
Mrs. Darnell's Palm Sunday video

Week of March 23, 2020 distance learning

Hello,  my "Outback" learning friends.  Welcome to our second week of distance learning from the library.  

Here's my library lesson for 5th grade:

I miss you and miss reading to you each week.  Maybe we’ll be back together soon.  I wonder how your Newbery reading is going.  How about your Newbery word search? How many Newbery titles did you find in the word search puzzle?  Will you email me and tell me?  Also, has anybody finished your Newbery book?  If so, will you email me, tell me your title, and tell me if you think it was worthy of the Newbery Award or Honor, the highest honor a book can receive in the year it was published?  Tell me why you think that.  What was your favorite part?  Would you recommend that your friends read this book, too?  Why?

         If you were in the library this week, I would be reading you a book called Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine.  I like to share our Civil War era books with you while you are studying that time period in social studies.  This is such a bittersweet book (remember what that means?).  It is a TRUE story about the Underground Railroad.  Click here for Henry's Freedom Box. After you listen to the story, go to your bathroom and get in the bathtub (clothed and no water turned on).  Scrunch yourself up really small to fill about ½ to 2/3 of the bathtub space.  Stay just like that for as long as you can stand it.  Imagine you are scrunched up like that for 27 hours.  That’s longer than a day!  That’s like staying in that position from singing the National Anthem one day until lunch THE NEXT DAY!!!  Now as you do this you are all probably kind of comfortably lying on your backs…oh, no!  Imagine part of that time you are on your tummy, on your side, and even ON YOUR HEAD!  No food, no water breaks, no bathroom breaks, no recess, no stand up and stretch…for 27 hours!  Now do you have a better understanding of Henry Box Brown?

         Wow!  Two amazingly wonderful books this week…your Newbery and Henry’s Freedom Box!  It just doesn’t get much better than that.  Enjoy your free time escaping through good books.  I love you, am praying for you and your families, and am counting the days until we can read together again!

Here's my library lesson for 4th grade:

Hello, 4^th graders!  So this is the time that you are studying the rainforest, right?  Oh, my!  What a wonderful unit to study!  When 4^th graders study the rainforest each year, I like to read to them the book called The Shaman’s Apprentice by Lynne Cherry.  Since we can’t be together now, I found a VERY GOOD replacement: the Reading Rainbow video of The Shaman’s Apprentice.  In this video, the book will be read, and host Lavar Burton will TAKE you to the rainforest where you will meet real medicine men, tribal leaders, people who live in ways unbelievable to us, and missionaries who take the Gospel to the tribespeople.  I hope you will click HERE  to experience and learn from this amazing video of Reading Rainbow’s The Shaman’s Apprentice!  Better yet…if you watch it with your family, you could discuss these important questions:

·       What did the missionaries do in the village?

·       How can we be missionaries in our homes and neighborhoods during this time of quarantine?

·       The video mentions apprentices learning from older people.  What is a lesson or skill you have learned from an older person, maybe a parent or grandparent?  (My grandmother taught me to sew when I was about 10.  It made my mother too nervous, afraid I would get the sewing machine needle stuck in my finger, so my grandmother taught me!)

·       What are some stories or true-life experiences that your parents or grandparents have passed down to you?  Can’t think of any?  Maybe it’s because you haven’t asked!  TODAY, ask your parents (and maybe also Facetime your grandparents to ask them) to tell you a story about themselves when they were children.  You could also ask them what was a lesson that they had to learn the hard way.  They’ll know what you mean!  Enjoy these times at home learning more about the people you love and what life was like when they were children.

That’s it for this week.  Enjoy The Shaman’s Apprentice video with its virtual field trip to the rainforest as well as listening to and learning stories from the people you love.  I miss you, am praying for you and your families, and can hardly wait until we are together again reading wonderful books!

Here's my library lesson for 3rd grade:

Please watch the video of my reading G is for Georgia, posted on the 3^rd grade blog.

OUTBACK LIbrary time

G’day, mate!  Did you know that there is a huge area of Australia called the Outback?  The area is so big, and the families living there live so far apart that going to school is impossible.  Kids might live hundreds of miles from their teachers and their school!  The only way kids in the Australian Outback can experience school is through “distance learning” like you are doing this week.   Each child has a computer and an adult helper nearby, usually a parent, and receives lessons and schoolwork from teachers and then returns the work to teachers through email.  Then 3 or 4 times a year the kids travel long distances to meet together for a week, kind of like a school camp.  Why don’t we pretend we are living in the Australian Outback, and I will deliver your ‘library time lesson’ for the week below?  Isn’t that a grouse idea?  (In Australian slang ‘grouse’ means that you like something, like you think it’s a wonderful idea.)

So here goes the lesson for the week of March 16, 2020 for 5th grade:

I hope you have begun your Newbery Award or Newbery Honor book and are thoroughly enjoying it.  Remember the book you chose was voted the BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR or a runner up to that honor in the year it was published.   Reading just doesn’t get much better than that!   If we were in the library this week, I would give you free silent time to begin your Newbery book and then give you the wordsearch puzzle below to do for fun and to see how many Newbery titles you remember hearing about last week.  I hope you will remember many of those titles and will read them in middle school because you’ll find most of them on the middle school side of the library, too.              

Before you start reading and wordsearching, I want to share a few facts from those amazing Weird But True books that you love so much:

Vanilla is used to make chocolate.

An elephant’s tooth is the size of a brick.

The Statue of Liberty’s nose is almost 5 feet long, taller than you.

Chewing gum can make your heart beat faster.

The 50 tallest mountains in the world are all in Asia.

There are around 3 trillion (3,000,000,000,000) trees on Earth.                         (I wonder how many are cherry blossom trees.)

Isn’t it just amazing and so much fun to see what all you can learn when you read!

Now…on to your Newbery reading and wordsearch puzzle. Can you print it at home and let the fun begin?

        

Newbery Award and Honor Books Word Bank

Al Capone Does My Shirts           A Wrinkle in Time              Bud Not Buddy

Ella Enchanted                             Hatchet                             Hope Was Here

Rules               Hoot                     The Tale of Despereaux       Wolf Hollow

A Long Way from Chicago     A Year Down Yonder    Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Everything On A Waffle                Holes                                Old Yeller

The House of Sixty Fathers          A Single Shard                  The Westing Game

Because of Winn Dixie                 Elijah of Buxton                 Flora and Ulysses

The War That Saved My Life   Pictures of Hollis Woods  The One and Only Ivan

                           So here goes the lesson for the week of March 16, 2020 for 4th grade:

Now…enough about Australia.  Let’s talk about Ireland, an island and part of the continent of Europe.  If you were in our library this week, I would read you a story about the life of Saint Patrick and some of the traditions and fun associated with Saint Patrick’s Day celebrated on March 17 each year, but since we are  ‘distance learning’ this week, please click here (kids.nationalgeographpic.com – search St. Patrick’s Day) on a computer or iPad and read National Geographic Kids’ short article on St. Patrick’s Day.  It’s so interesting!  Take the short quiz at the end to see what you remember about St. Patrick.  

                     

Well, that was fun!  But now would you like to know even more about the real St. Patrick?  And about why we wear green?  And what a 3-leaf clover has to do with anything?  You must learn why the real St. Patrick went to Ireland two times!  Ask a grown-up to click here (DouglasTalks.com Who is St. Patrick?) to watch the video and learn the answers.  I can hardly wait to see you again to discuss the life of this brave Christian man and why he is still celebrated more than 1,500 years later!  We can learn a lot about who God wants us to be by learning about St. Patrick!  

                   

One more thing, knowing how much you LOVE the Weird But True books, I just have to share a few facts:

Vanilla is used to make chocolate.

An elephant’s tooth is the size of a brick.

The Statue of Liberty’s nose is almost 5 feet long, taller than you.

Chewing gum can make your heart beat faster.

The 50 tallest mountains in the world are all in Asia.

     There are around 3 trillion (3,000,000,000,000) trees on Earth. 

(I wonder how many are cherry blossom trees.)

Isn’t it just amazing and so much fun to see what all you can learn when you read!

 So here goes the lesson for the week of March 16, 2020 for 3rd grade:

Now…enough about Australia.  Let’s talk about Ireland, an island and part of the continent of Europe.  If you were in our library this week, I would show you Ireland on a  map and read you a story about the life of Saint Patrick and some of the traditions and fun associated with Saint Patrick’s Day celebrated on March 17 each year, but since we are ‘distance learning’ this week, please ask a grown-up to click here: (kids.nationalgeographic.com – search St. Patrick’s Day) on a computer or iPad and read National Geographic Kids’ short article on      St. Patrick’s Day.  It’s so interesting!  Take the short quiz at the en      to see what you remember about St. Patrick. 

                        

Well, that was fun!  But now would you like to know even more about the real St. Patrick?  And about why we wear green?  And what a 3-leaf clover has to do with anything?  You must learn why the real St. Patrick went to Ireland two times!  Ask a grown-up to click here                (DouglasTalks.com Who is St. Patrick?) to watch the video and learn the answers.  I can hardly wait to see you again to discuss the life of this brave Christian man and why he is still celebrated more than 1,500 years later!  We can learn a lot about who God wants us to be by learning about St. Patrick!

One more thing, knowing how much you LOVE the Weird But True books, I just have to share a few facts:

Vanilla is used to make chocolate.

An elephant’s tooth is the size of a brick.

The Statue of Liberty’s nose is almost 5 feet long.

Chewing gum can make your heart beat faster.

The 50 tallest mountains in the world are all in Asia.

     There are around 3 trillion (3,000,000,000,000) trees on Earth. 

(I wonder how many are cherry blossom trees.)

Isn’t it just amazing and so much fun to see what all you can learn when you read!

So here goes the lesson for March 16 2nd grade:

Now…enough about Australia.  Let’s talk about Ireland, an island and part of the continent of Europe.  If you were in our library this week, I would show you Ireland on a  map and read you a story about St. Patrick’s Day which is celebrated on March 17 each year, but since we are  ‘distance learning’ this week, you can have a St. Patrick’s Day story read to you online and see the pictures up really close, too.  Just ask a grown-up to click here (Pete the Cat – The Great Leprechaun Chase).  I hope you enjoy this fun story about Pete the Cat trying to catch a leprechaun.

Well, that was fun!  But now would you like to know more about the real   St. Patrick?  And about why we wear green?  And what a 3-leaf clover has to do with anything?  You must learn why the real St. Patrick went to Ireland two times!  Ask a grown-up to click here (YouTube DouglasTalks.com Who is St. Patrick?) to watch the video and learn the answers.  I can hardly wait to see you again to discuss the life of this brave Christian man and why he is still celebrated more than 1,500 years later!  We can learn a lot about who God wants us to be by learning about St. Patrick!

I hope you have a wonderful week and enjoy learning and reading about St. Patrick!  Will you read lots of books on your bookshelves at home, too, and tell me about your favorite one when we see each other again?

So here goes the lesson for March 16 for 3k,, 4k,, 5k, and 1st

Oh, how I wish I could read a story and sing a song with you, but since we’re distance learning this week, I found a wonderful librarian online to read and sing with you.  Her name is Sheneatha, and she works2 at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York.  When someone in your home has 15 free minutes, crawl up in that person’s lap and ask to click here (Go to Brooklyn Public Library Facebook page and locate their virtual storytime with Sheneatha) on an iPad or tablet.   You will LOVE hearing Sheneatha read Leonardo the Terrible Monster by the wonderful Mo Willems and Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin.  Remember when you met Mr. Eric Litwin in our library before Thanksgiving and you got to hear him sing and talk about his books?  That was so fun!  You’ll think this library lesson with Sheneatha is fun, too, especially the funny faces and songs she will share with you.  When you finish watching her video, tell the person you are watching it with something that you remember about Mr. Eric Litwin’s visit and his books about Pete the Cat or Groovy Joe or the Nut family.  Aren’t books just SO MUCH FUN?  I’m so glad and thankful that I get to share great books with you each week.  Enjoy your time at home with reading lots of good books from your own bookshelves right next to somebody you love!

Happy, happy Saint Patrick’s Day!