Fifth Grade Field Trip

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New Listening Library CD's

Take a look at new CD's with books on the wheel in the back room of the library. I am making copies of them so little by little new ones will be there. Today I added these titles:

The blues of flats brown by Walter Dean Myers
The Friend by Sarah Stewart (hist. fiction)

and two math matters titles:
Carrie Measures by Linda Aber
Clean Sweep Campers by Lucille Penner

Come and check them out for your student's listening time!!

More new choices

More new titles to enjoy:

Z is for Zeus; a Greek Mythology by Helen L. Wilbur
Lily and the Paper Man by Rebecca Upjohn ( a young girl's look at homelessness)
How I learned geography by Uri Shulevitz (a map shows a young boy how far he could travel and gives him hope)
Friend on Freedom River by Gloria Whelan (Wonderful historical fiction about slavery and knowing what is right even when no one else is looking)
One hen (how one small loan made a big difference) by Katie Milway ( a story of Ghana, a boy and a big gift)

One Hen is the inspiring story Kojo, a young boy from Ghana, Africa. Kojo and his widowed mother collect firewood to sell. They live:

in a mud-walled house with an open fire for cooking. Beside it is a garden where they grow their own food. They never have much money or much to eat.

The elves and the shoemaker-a beautifully illustrated retold version of the classic tale.

Double Cheeseburgers, Quiche and Vegetarian Burritos; American cooking from the 1920's through today by Loretta Frances Ichord.

Come take a look at all our new titles by visiting the Library!!!

We're going on a bear hunt with Michael Rosen

Check out this cool video of Michael Rosen dramatizing his book We're going on a bear hunt.

New books

New books are making their way into classrooms via your students. Find a time in your busy day to stop and browse also! I am working on finishing the last 5 boxes of books from the last Titlewave order so please take a moment before new boxes arrive. I have added lots of non-fiction; bright and beautiful non-fiction such as these titles:

• Our White house; looking in, looking out
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!; voices from a medieval village by Laura Ann Schlitz, which won the Newberry Medal last year
• Going West! Journey on a wagon train to settle a frontier town by Carol A. Johmann
• Some Friends to feed; the story of Stone Soup by Pete Seeger
• In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden by Jack Prelutsky
• Poems in Black and White by Kate Miller

Mo Willems new book

Naked Mole Rat gets dressed is Mo Willems' new offering and it is very cute. If you are looking for something light-hearted to read to your students this would be a great choice!! We also have all of his new elephant and piggie series such as Are you ready to play outside? and I love my new toy! Mo also has a great website and blog!

check out this great butterfly video

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=94414&title=Butterfly_Life_Cycle