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, 4th graders! So this is the time
that you are studying the rainforest, right? Oh,
my! What a wonderful unit to study! When 4th 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:
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