The Song Ackerman Caldecott Gammel, Alfred A.

and
, Karen
Award
Stephan Knopf Inc
Dance
Man

1988

Juvenile
lit, 1920s
dance.
Realistic
Fiction

4.5

Why
Aardema, Caldecott
Mosquitos Verna
Award
Buzz in
People's
Ears

1975

Juvenile
Lit, animal
fiction

4.2

Dillon,
Leo &
Diane

The Dial
Press

Flotsam

Wiesner, Caldecott Weisner,

David
Award
David

Clarion
Books
(Houghto
n Mifflin
Company
Imprint)

Arrow to McDermot Caldecott McDermot Viking

the Sun t, Gerald
Award
t, Gerald Penguin
Inc

2006

Juvenile
lit, Beach,
ocean,
camera
fiction
Picture
Book

1.5

1974

A Pueblo
Indian
Tale,
Retold

2.6

Grandfath Say, Allen Caldecott Say, Allen Houghton

e's
Award
Mifflin
Journey
Company

1993

Granfathe
rs,
Voyages/t
ravels,
Japanese
American
s Fiction

4.2

Sylvester
and the
Magic
Pebble

1969

Donkeys,
Pebble,
Magic
Fiction

3.8

Steig,
William

Caldecott
Award

Steig,
William

Aladdin
Paperbac
ks

Tuesday

Wiesner, Caldecott Wiesner, Houghton

David
Award
David
Mifflin
Company

1991

Frogs
Fiction,
Picture
Book

1.7

Keats, Caldecott Keats,

Ezra Jack Award
Ezra Jack

Puffifn
Books

1962

Snow,
Fiction

2.5

Blueberrie McCloske Caldecott McCloske

s for Sal y, Robert
Award
y, Robert

The
Viking
Press

1948

Picture
Book,
Bears

3.5

The
Snowy
Day

Henry's
Freedom
Box

Levine,
Ellen

Caldecott
Award

Nelson,
Kadir

Scholastic
Press

2007

Bibliograp
hy

1.9

Histroy: This is a great opportunity to ave

the children talk about activities that they
do with their grandparents and learn
about the Roaring 20s. Show the children
clips off of youtube/excerpts from movies.
Dancers like Shirly
Temple:https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=BW7fkQyxHV4 and Gene Kelly:

In Singing in the Rain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ After havign
the kids watch these videos from
the 1920s have them put on their
own talent show. ( sidenote: Ask
This children's book is about a grandfather the children questions like how
the costumes have changed, how
of three children who used to dance on
the vaudeville dance stage. He tap dances movies are different now and etc.
for them in his attic, and makes it into a
Other dancers to look at are: Al
show. The children watch their grandfather Jolson, Fred Astaire, Danny Kaye
transform and tap as fast as he could.
or Gregory Hines.
They couldn't believe the different sounds
he could make with a pair of shoes. At the
end of the story, Grandpa is out of breath
and hugged by his grandchildren.

This is the story of the mosquito, and how

everything is all his fault. A lot of repition is
used. The misquito upsets the iguana,
who then puts two sticks in his ears. When
the snake says hello to the iguana, he is
ignored then hides in a rabbit's hole. Then
the rabbit runs veery quickly, and as things
escalate, from a bird to a lion to a monkey,
a baby owl dies. Then there was no sun
for longer than a night. Then every animal
backtracks the story and it leads tot the
culprit: The mosquito. Who is then
squashed when he hums in a numan's
ear.

Math: On a powerpoint. have individual

slides that each have a picture of all the
animals in this book. Including: Mosquito,
Iguana, Python, Rabbit, Crow, Monkey,
Owl, and Lion. Have them do times
tables/addition and subtraction of animals
legs. An example: Add together the
mosquito's legs (6) and the rabbits legs
(4) then subtract the number of claws an
owl has.

Lit: Have the children, taking one page at

a time help tell the story. Have them use
certain words like: Camera, Film, Ocean,
and etc.
Science: Talk to
the kids about the word Flotsam. Its the
study of floating objects, and the oceans
current. Talk about the 29,0000 rubber
ducks that found their way into the
This is a beautiful picture book. The
ocean . The website with their voyage is
pictures describe a boy going to the
beach. He's playing on the beach when all here:
of a sudden, an old camera washes up on http://www.imcbrokers.com/blog/overview/
detail/rubber-ducks-to-end-epic-journey.
the beach.Inside is a roll of film, and he
The rubber ducks will be heading to
goes to the store and gets it developed.
Britan's coast next. There are many
Pictures depicting magical things in the
studies done on these ducks, have the
ocean suchs as a mechanical fish and
kids research the ducks. Video:
huge starfish. Also, there are pictures of
someone holding a picture, and someone https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=H4Ws9E5CTvE and also
in that picture is holding a picture of
http://oceanmotion.org/html/research/ebb
another person holding a picture. And it
goes on and on. The boy buys more film esmeyer.htm
and then throws the camera back into the
ocean. The pictures display the voyage of
the camera to another beach.

This Pueblo Indian tale is about an boy,

who is ridiculed for not having a father, he
asks many men for information about his
father. Then he comes to the Arrow Maker,
who is a wise man. The arrow maker, who
transforms him into an arrow and shoots
him to the Sun Lord. The boy has to go
through the Kiva of Lions, Serpents, Bees
and Lightning to prove that he is the son
of the Sun Lord. He does these tasks and
then is accepted by his father, who sends
him back to Earth. And he brings the Spirit
of the Sun to man.

History/Art: Give background information

about the Pueblo people, about their
beliefs and culture. For example: The
Pueble people had spirits that once lived
among them. Sine the pueble poeple did
not pay enough attention to them. So
they went high into the skies. And they
controlled the rain and the sun. Read the
book, and then have them identify the
ancestor spirit in the book. Have them
retell the story back to you in the correct
order. Art: Have them make bright colored
masks made out of construction paper.

Histroy: Have the children locate Japan

on a map. Have them answer questions
about the text for reading comprehension
This is a story about a young Japanesesuch as: How would you feel if you didn't
American boy's Grandfather. Its basically see land for three weeks? What is a
about homesickness and the journey of
steamship? Why is this text still relevent
the Grandfather. He took a ship to the
today? Is it possible to love two places at
Americas when he was young and made a once? Divide the students into groups
living /lived in California. Then he missed and have them research Japan in the
Japan, went back, and married his
1900s. Things such as: Culture, Religion,
sweetheart from school. After having a
Geography (location), Clothing, crops,
couple of kids, missed California and then housing and enemies. Have each group
moved back there. Then when old in age, pick one topic and present to the class.
went back to Japan to see his family. He
was torn between the two places. Once he
was in one place, he missed the other. He
wanted to gog back to California before he
died, but died in Japan.

This is a story from my own childhood,

and one that I loved dearly. This paticular
magical story starts with a donkey named
Sylvester who has two loving parents and
a wonderful life. He has a collection of
pebbles. One day he ventures off and
finds a beautiful, red, shiny pebble. He
changes the weather. He then realizes the
pebble has magic and wishes a wart
away. As he is heading home, a lion is
ready to pounce. Sylvester quickly wishes
himself a rock, and cannot wish himself
back. His parents fret and worry, and then
come to the conclusion something horrible
happened. The seasons go by, and
Sylvester's parents go out picnicking, and
set up their table cloth right on Slyvester
the rock. They find the pebble next to him,
and comment on how he would have like
it. Then they place it on the table, thus
giving Sylvester the power to wish himself
back. His parents were over joyed and
Sylvester realizes he doesn't need the
pebble to be happy.

Lit: Have the students create their own

story, about how they found their magic
pebble. Prompting questions: Where did
you find it? Describe the pebble. What did
you wish for, and did any of your wishes
go terribly wrong like Sylvester's?

Science/Lit: Talk about the lifecycle of the

frog. After giving background information
have them create the life cycle of the frog
on a paper plate. Have them draw
pictures that help communicate what the
frog is undergoing at this point. Lit:
Have a crime scene set up, a sheet on
This is a very funny book, involving a
the ground, lillypads everywhere, a TV
Tuesday and frog lillypads that fly. There remote, clothespins, a stuffed dog, and
are only a couple words used, and its
etc. Have the kids inspect the items and
base is on the pictures to tell the story.
then show them the book. Have each
Lillypads hover in the air and allow frogs to child in the class explain one page, kind
take flight during Tuesday night. The frogs of like a "popcorn" reading. Then, have
wreck havoc in neighborhoods across
the students write and draw about what
town. Then, when the lillypads loose their will happen next Tuesday at 7:58 pm.
magical flying abilities, they are left in the
streets. The police cannot figure it out.
Then, next Tuesday rolls around, and the
frogs take flight again happily, or hoppily.
Lit/Art: Have the kids draw a picture of
Peter playing in the snow, then have them
draw themselves playing in the snow.
This is a cute story about Peter, and his
adventures when a very snowy day comes Have them explain what is going on in the
pictures. Next have them name the Title,
along. Peter makes tracks in the snow,
Author, Setting, Problem and the
hits a tree with a stick, gets hit by a
snowball, and climbs a mountain of snow Solution. Then make a map (a visual aid)
and slides down. He put a snowball in his about Henry's snowy day.
pocket to save for the next day, but it
melted. He had a dream all the snow
melted. He woke up the next day, and it
had snowed even more! So he went out
with his friend to play.
Math/Art: make each of the kids a pail
made out of paper (laminated). Give each
of the kids blue playdough. Give them
word problems such as "Sal's mother
picked 4 blueberries" Then each of the
kids make blueberries out of the
playdough. "But then, sal ate three. How
many are left?" Have them put the correct
number of blueberries in the pail. Art:

This is wonderful story about Litle Sal and

Little Bear, and both of their mothers.
They both come to store up on blueberries
for the winter, only Little Sal and her
mother take them home. While the mother
bear and her little bear eat and try to get
fat for the winter. Somehow everyone gets
all mixed up on Blueberry hill and then get
back into the correct pairs.

give the children popsicle sticks

and blue paint and one piece of
white paper. Have the kids dip
circular sponges (or corks) into
the blue paint and make a pile of
blueberries. Next, have them
make a basket out of the popsicle
sticks, viola.

This is book based on a true story. Its

about a slave named Henry who became
free by sending himself in the mail to the
North. He was married and had a wife and
kids, and they were separated when they
were sold in the slave trade. Henry
decides to free himself, and takes a 27
hour journey to freedom, in a box.

Lit: Have the kids describe, with their five

sense what it was like to live in Henry's
box for twenty seven hours.