Picture Book: Sick Simon by Dan Krall
Nonfiction Book Bite: read/showed snippets from Why My Feet Smell and Other Gross Facts about Your Body by Jody Sullivan Rake
Story/Song: Herman the Worm
Nonfiction Book Bite: read/showed snippets from I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat by Carlyn Beccia
Picture Book: Bob, Not Bob! by Liz Garton Scanlon & Audrey Vernick
Category: Grade School Stories
Brrr Second Grade Visits
A near repeat of my “Snow Day” First Grade visit… but with a few tweaks…
Picture Book: Straight to the Pole by Kevin O’Malley
Discussion: If school was closed for a Snow Day, what would you do?
Nonfiction Book Bites: read/showed snippets from Snow Play by Birgitta Ralston, The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino, and Animal Antics by David Harvey
Picture Book: Making a Friend by Tammi Sauer
Storytell: The Magic Ice Cream Maker (I adapted storyteller Priscilla Howe’s frosty fun story)
Snow Day First Grade Visit
Winter is here, and Snow Days are sure to come…
Picture Book: Straight to the Pole by Kevin O’Malley
Discussion: If school was closed for a Snow Day, what would you do?
Nonfiction Book Bites: read/showed snippets from Snow Play by Birgitta Ralston and The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino
Picture Book: Pizza-Pie Snowman by Valeri Gorbachev
Picture Book: Red and Lulu by Matt Traveres (also printed out and showed pictures of current 2019 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree)
Birdie Second Grade Visits
Turkeys weren’t the only birds featured in this visit! Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving next week 🙂
Poem: “Leftovers” from It’s Thanksgiving! by Jack Prelutsky
Fiction Book: Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
Fiction Book Bite: read parts of Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? by Jon Agee and the rest of the coop (various illustrators)
Nonfiction Book Bites: read/showed snippets from DK Smithsonian’s Everything You Need to Know About Birds, Click with Your Chick by Giene Keyes (chickens can learn tricks!), and National Geographic Kids Ultimate Explorer: Birds by Julie Beer*
Storytell: “Chickens!” (I learned this “boo baby” story from storyteller Priscilla Howe)
*from which I got the joke: What kind of key doesn’t open a door? A turkey!
Thanksgiving First Grade Visit
Picture Book: The Ugly Pumpkin by Dave Horowitz
Nonfiction Book Bites: read/showed snippets from Food Faces by Rudi Sodamin, Baby Food by Saxton Freymann, Zombie-Gut Chili and Other Horrifying Dinners by Ali Vega, and Cool Thanksgiving Dinner by Lisa Wagner
Picture Book: Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
Zombies and… Veggies? Second Grade Visits
Fiction Book: Zombies Don’t Eat Veggies! by Megan and Jorge Lacera
Nonfiction Book Bites: read/showed snippets from Zombie-Gut Chili and Other Horrifying Dinners by Ali Vega, How to Carve Freakishly Cool Pumpkins by Sarah L. Schuette, and What Makes a Monster? by Jess Keating (zombie ant fungus!); also said we have books about zombies at the library and showed the cover of The Legend of the Zombie by Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Storytell: Now I’ve Gotcha (I learned this “boo baby” story from storyteller Priscilla Howe)
Fiction and Nonfiction Second Grade Visits
School visits have started up again! I’m behind in posting, but I had had fun at Laurel Hill last month 🙂
Fiction Book: The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
Nonfiction Book Bites: read/showed snippets from National Geographic Kids’ Weird but True! #5, Ripley’s Believe it or Not!: Out of this World Edition 2018, and National Geographic Kids’ Real or Fake?
Storytell: Book Book Book (This is a well-loved librarian anecdote about a chicken that comes into the library. One version, “The Well-Read Frog” can be found in Margaret Read MacDonald’s Three Minute Tales.) (After I told this story, I took a vote on whether my story was fiction or nonfiction.)
Summer School Books and Fun
Here are the other books and fillers I presented for this year’s Summer School class visits to the library. Unlike my “Carnivores” theme, I didn’t do the same materials or order for each group; I played around quite a bit, picking and choosing at whim. I did loose “food” and “mail” themes, but I wasn’t strict about staying on-theme. I got to try out books I’ve been wanting to try for a while now, so that was extra fun!
Books I may have shared:
Peter Spit a Seed at Sue by Jackie French Koller
Maria the Matador by Anne Lambelet
How to Feed Your Parents by Ryan Miller
Food Faces by Rudi Sodamin
Delivery Bear by Laura Gehl
It Came in the Mail by Ben Clanton
Fillers I may have used:
Boom Chicka Boom
Herman the Worm
Boo Baby stories (learned from storyteller Priscilla Howe)
Book Book Book (This is a well-loved librarian anecdote about a chicken that comes into the library. One version, “The Well-Read Frog” can be found in Margaret Read MacDonald’s Three Minute Tales.)
various Mad Libs
Summer Carnivores
I’ve been keeping busy this summer! One of my fun duties has been to share stories with local U-46 Summer School students visiting the library. For my last presentation, I wore a “scary” wolf hat and did a “carnivores” theme. It was a hit!
Picture Book: Carnivores by Aaron Reynolds
Nonfiction Book: “Killer Whale vs. Great White Shark” from Who Would Win: Battle Royale by Jerry Pallotta
Chapter Book Booktalk: The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey
Picture Book: Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas! by Aaron Blabey
Storytelling: The Gunniwolf
I did the same presentation for SEVEN school groups! (I was pretty tuckered out when I left work on Friday!) I’ll be sharing some of the materials I used for previous weeks; but for those presentations, I didn’t always do the same exact thing/order for each group.
Hope everyone is having a FANTASTIC summer! 🙂