who eats worms for lunch? story & signs

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This week we enjoyed a book about eating different things for lunch. If you were a cow, you would prefer grass- but what if you were a mouse instead? Or a cat?

Worms for Lunch is a book that grabs little readers’ attention with fun pictures and a list of animals and foods that listeners can easily sign, spell, and illustrate.

5 fun things to do with Worms for Lunch 

  • Sign all of the food and animals (cheese, milk, cows, birds…easy and fun to learn ASL)
  • Make tiny worm chains and let them wiggle.
  • Set the table with large butcher paper and illustrate your plate!

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  • Sing songs about food! I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas was our favorite!
  • Learn more about WORMS, obviously! Check your library for some great info on worms and watch some in the cool clip below!

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on talk like a pirate day, we are the scourge of the school

img_4962For years we’ve celebrated the always interesting holiday Talk Like a Pirate Day.  And how the celebration has grown in our school!  Our first year was a surprise event, students left their cars and buses to find a campus full of adults in pirate gear. Those adults kept speaking in lyrical nonsense and what a fun day it was.  After a few years students wanted in on the dress up fun, and now September 19th means fancy dress for all.  The best part of the day is always the tiniest pirates and their enthusiastic depiction of pirate hooks, sneers, and eye patches!

Pirate Day fun includes…

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  • Sing sea chanteys! Write your own to the tune of Popeye the Sailor Man!
  • Practice your “Arghhhh” and whoever does it best gets to be captain for a game of Captain Says (but orders must be bellowed in pirate speak)
  • Build a pirate ship or sword using tangrams!

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  • Create a Pirate ABC just like this fun picture book Twenty Six Pirates
  • Make a map…and go on a treasure hunt. We’ve planted clues across the campus, in the library… lots of fun!
  • Always, always look for opportunities to work in an “Aye, Aye!”

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some mysteries of the universe in chapters (review)

9780763694531Cody and the Mysteries of the Universe– a chapter book that offers a lot of story in a smaller package, and new to our library! Cody is a thoughtful girl, but sometimes she feels her family and friends don’t think she’s thoughtful enough (maybe too much action instead). But Cody wonders about a lot of things she sees and hears…and some of them cause a little bit of worry- for her friends, her family, and even the new kids she initially feared.  The Meen family can make quite a few kids scared… Cody and her best friend find that mysteries are the most satisfying to solve when they end in music and new connections.  Another bonus? This is one in a series for those who prefer series chapter books as a transition from picture book fiction. (Great for grades 2-5)

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