The Day the Crayons Quit - read aloud video

The Day the Crayons Quit - read aloud video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrd-Wdxbg-Q

Activity:  Why were the crayons upset? How do you feel about their complaints? What would YOU do?

Get some paper, and look around your room. What would happen if your favorite toy quit? What would you do?

How about if at the dinner table, your SPOON quit? Would the fork be upset, too?

Draw a picture of something that quits on you.

Write a few sentences describing the problem, and what you need to do about it to make things better.

You might even want to write these stories in letters, like in the book. Put your letters and pictures together to make a book. Share with your family and friends. 

I Want My Hat Back - Theater Performance

I Want My Hat Back - Theater Performance

A wonderful interpretation of John Klassen's book. 

A bear searches for his missing hat in the bestselling, multiple award-winning picture book debut of Jon Klassen. In his bestselling debut picture book, the multiple award-winning Jon Klassen, illustrator. His other books are: This Is Not My Hat and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole.

Watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJmp1c3XIQ

ACTIVITY: Wasn't this a great performance? It only took ONE person to use the puppets.

Make a picture of a favorite book character, and tell her or his story using the picture as a puppet. Get your family and friends to be your audience. Of course, you need to know the story very well, so you might have to rehearse a few times (that means practice).

Make up another performance with a friend or family member! 

THE DOT

THE DOT by Peter H. Reynolds

THIS GREAT STORY HELPS TO SEE HOW OUR IDEAS CAN START SMALL AND WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OTHER'S LIVES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clpw7PG7m1Q

ACTIVITY:  You need watercolor paints or water color markers. paper, and a nice place to sit (maybe outside).

Listen to and watch the story video. Talk about it with someone. What did the child do? How did the teacher help her?

How did Vashti help the boy in the story?

Make a dot on your paper. What can it be? Make some more... and more...

Imagination and creativity... and helping a friend...

Collage Design

Collage Design  

Eric Carle (who wrote and illustrated the book I posted yesterday) has a phenomenal web page. He shows how his ideas come to be bookstand illustrations. 

Today, take a look at the page of From Head to Toe (the post for 6/25/2020) and read how his ideas became real. Then look at his sketched of the book. Go back and reread the book from yesterday, and see if you can see his ideas more clearly.

ACTIVITY. Glue a picture of yourself onto a piece of paper or cardboard. Then create a collage of your favorite idea above it. You may use this illustration of Eric as an idea.

Have fun!

From Head to Toe Read Aloud Video

                                           

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIx72g0UdA

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIC CARLE! 

 

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂💚. (91)

 

Find out more about Eric and his books and illustrations here:  http://ericcarle.com

ACTIVITY: Using collage (ANY paper you have, colors from magazines, old giftware, newspapers, etc. (ask first) create a collage of something YOU can do. You will need scissors, paper, and glue.

FIREFLY LIGHTS

FIREFLY LIGHTS and Video

MAKE THESE GREAT FIREFLY LIGHTS...  Thank you Michane from Valdosta, Georgia.

See a story and poem about Fireflies posted on 4/23/2020 and 4/12/2020. Watch this video from the Tennessee (USA) Firefly Show.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCWkzQqO7Ro

Dealing with Feelings

Dealing with Feelings can be hard when things are uncertain. Here's a chart with some ways to help everyone understand and to feel better.

Check out the posts for RELAXATION and HEALTH & WELLNESS from the list on the right side of the blog page.

Iroquois village - Virtual Visit

Iroquois village - Virtual Visit 

https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/iroquoisvillage/

St. Petersburg Russia

FIND OUT ABOUT..,

St. Petersburg, Russia

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/

Puzzle Time - Animals

How many animals can you find in this picture? 

Make a list.

Which ones are your favorites?  Choose one (or two or three) and write a story about the day they came to school with you!

Paint some pictures to illustrate your story.

A rhinoceros? Preposterous! - Read Aloud

A rhinoceros? Preposterous! - Read Aloud

Written by Letta Scholz
Illustrated by Ed Emberley


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6bzyoDrAg

Another great rhinoceros story!!! 

Activity: Preposterous is a BIG word, meaning UTTERLY ABSURD or RIDICULOUS!!!

How many words can YOU make from the word PREPOSTEROUS (like POST or US)?  you can mix the letters up!

Make your list...

NOW, ILLUSTRATE WHAT YOU THINK THE WORD preposterous WOULD LOOK LIKE IF IT WAS A PICTURE!

Free Rice - Game

Play a game and your points help to donate FREE rice to people round the world... 

The World Food Program (https://www.wfp.org) will donate rice for every question you get correct.

That's right... the game is FREE to you, and while you are learning and playing, you are also doing a good deed for others.

How does Freerice work?

As you play Freerice and answer questions right, advertisements appear on your screen. When you see one of these advertisements, you trigger a financial payment to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world.

In the game, these payments are represented via grains of rice. The amount of money generated when you see an advertisement can vary, but is roughly equivalent to what the World Food Programme spends to purchase 10 grains of rice.

By playing, you are generating the money that pays for this rice. This money is used for many types of assistance — not just rice — depending on where needs are greatest. Regardless of the type of assistance, you can be sure that 100% of all funds generated on Freerice go to the World Food Programme, and 93.5% of every payment received by the World Food Programme goes directly towards helping children and their families. Freerice does not earn or keep any money it raises.You can learn more about the different ways the World Food Programme is funded here

There are many Categories to Choose

Coronavirus: Know the Facts

Global Goals: Using Facts to Fuel Action

The Global Goals

Climate Action

Healthy Eating for Goals 2 & 3

English

English Vocabulary

English Grammar

Geography

World and Canadian Geography

World Landmarks

Identify Countries on the Map

Géographie Mondiale et Canadienne

World Capitals

Flags of the world

Humanities

Famous Quotations

Famous Paintings

Literature

Language learning

Spanish

Latin

French

Italian

Czech

German

Math

Multiplication Table

Basic Math (Pre-Algebra)

Science

Human Anatomy

Chemical Symbols (Basic)

Chemical Symbols (Full List)

I play in Italian, to practice and learn new words.

Choose a category and try...    https://freerice.com/

Don't Let the Pigeon...

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and the other Pigeon stories by Mo Willems are a HOOT!!!

Here he is trying to NOT go to SCHOOL..

http://pigeonpresents.com/vid-e-mos/

Mo has a series of drawing videos, (See Mo Willems in the list on the right).

Here's YOUR chance to keep the Pigeon from doing something. 

LIKE: DON'T LET THE PIGEON TASTE YOUR GELATO!

Use this page to help you get your story started. Add drawings of the Pigeon and make your own book!

Be sure to share it with your friends and family. You can even make your own video!

Here's another to inspire you:

http://pigeonpresents.com/vid-e-mos/the-nest-with-rock-dove/

I like Myself - Read Aloud Video

I have been sidetracked for a few days....  

I will be posting more this week. Sorry for the delay.

Here's I like Myself - Read Aloud Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTLxkMa0XDk


ACTIVITY: What do you like about YOURSELF? Make a few pages.

My Rhinoceros

My Rhinoceros - Read Along

Written and Illustrated by Jon Agee

Click to read and see the story.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xs3hRbXu4M

This blog has a section called "rhinoceros". You can find it to the right and way down the list. There are other stories and even a How to Draw a Rhinoceros video. 

If you click on this link, you can make your pwn book about a rhinoceros and learn more about the real animals. 

https://thekeeledeal.com/my-little-book-about-the-rhinoceros/

a HUGE shout out to the Contrada della Selva (Siena, Italy) because their mascot and symbol is a rhinoceros!

abbracci (that means HUGS in Italian).

Virus Sing Along

Virus Sing Along

Author: Ellen Feinman Moss

TumbleTime: 1 minutes 50 second

Here's a song about the Virus!  Click the link and follow along. Play it again and Sing along...

https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/AudioPlayer.aspx?ProductID=7421

ACTIVITY: 

Become a song writer...

What have been the BEST parts of being home? What have been the worst parts?

Following the pattern of this song, write your own version and teach it to your family and friends.

Create DANCE movements to go with your lyrics. 

Make a Scrapbook

Make a Scrapbook

Watch the video read aloud of a book I love: Zoe Sophia's Scrapbook 

Author: Claudia Mauner and Elisa Smalley

Illustrator: Claudia Mauner

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Word Count: 2278

TumbleTime: 18 minutes 30 seconds

CLICK HERE:  https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/book.aspx?id=4183

I love how Zoe Sophia keeps journal of all the places she goes and memorabilia, like and ticket stubs.

ACTIVITY: You need:

      markers,  crayons, pencils, colored pencils
      paper (you can use a grocery bag, like the one to the right),
      photos,
      glue
      MEMORIES

Think of what you want to include in the book. You can always add more pages later, so I suggest you start simply.

Use the book and the pictures above to help you decide on your memories of special times, places you have visited, people you care about, sporting events, favorite stories or movies, etc.

You might even want to include your memories of the time at home.

Add pictures, drawings, doodles, stickers. Look for more scrapbook ideas on the Internet.

Creative Food

Creative Food 

(Also see categories of FOOD, Cooking and the Making Faces from food on 4/19/20

Food is great to eat and can be presented to be art, too. 

Try to create delicious and fun food dishes. 

(see more COOKING posts under the index).