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TRAVEL – Summer Reading Week 4 (6-12 July 2020)

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Welcome to Summer Reading, Week 4:  TRAVEL !

  1. Begin your journey by listening to one of these summer-themed titles, found on Tumblebooks.  Start on our PXES Library Guide home page, linked here: PXES Library Guide Home Page  Choose Tumblebooks.  Log in with Username:  sas1912  Password: eagles
  • PreK-2:
    • Jackson and Bud’s Bumpy Ride (15:00) A fictionalized account of the first automobile trip from San Francisco to New York City!!
    • Our California (4:00) Poems introduce California’s most loved regions and cities.
    • Subway Ride (3:09) Take a subway ride in ten cities around the world!
  • Grades 2-5:  A Ticket Around the World (32:23).  Be an active listener.  Write two new facts about each of the 13 countries you’ll visit.

2.  Continue your trip by using our Culture Grams subscription to visit two new countries.  Go to the PXES Library Guide Home Page and choose Culture Grams. To log-in use:  Username:  sas1912  Password: eagles#1.  Choose “Kids Edition.”  Navigate using the continent menu underneath the world map.  Then, once inside a country’s pages, use the color-coded menus on the left to navigate.

    • What is the smallest, independent nation in South America?
    • What nation has a two-colored flag which symbolizes the open sky over wheat fields?
    • Which country has the southernmost capital city in the world?

Which countries or regions will you visit and what will you discover?  Try to trick your parents by giving clues for which they need to identify the country.  Can you outsmart them?

3. Get arty, using travel as your guide.   Make a passport stamp or entry visa for your own country.  Use your imagination!  Here are two designed by friends who love to eat ice cream and sing.  Do these look like your passport stamps?  What can you create?

4.  Brain Games:  Using our World Book Kids subscription, play a few travel-themed brain games. 

    • Log on to World Book Kids.  Begin at the PXES Library Guide home page, using the instructions given in #2 above.  Choose “World Book.”  Choose “World Book Kids.”
    • At the bottom of the World Book Kids home page, look for the “Games” icon and click on it.
    • Click on “Subject.”
    • Choose “Social Studies.”
    • Play either:
      • Countries and Continents (political geography)
      • Landmark Match (landmarks)
      • Hoist the Colors (flags)

If these are too easy for students in Grade 4 and above, change to Free Rice, UN and World Food Programme Games

Use the hamburger menu in the top, left-hand corner to change categories.  Try playing:

    • World Landmarks
    • Identify Countries on the Map (note: You can play this game in French as well)
    • World Capitals
    • Flags of the World

If you love Free Rice, consider creating an account and saving your points.  Because this is a joint United Nations and World Food Programme effort, by answering questions correctly and learning, you are also helping to fight world hunger.  Free Rice are games you can always feel good about playing!

5.  Go Further:

Grades PreK-2:   Go to Unite for Literacy, linked here:  Unite for Literacy: Trains, Planes, and Boats  Listen to these books in all of your languages!  Choose the narration language by clicking on the globe icon in the top, left-hand corner.

    • Trains, Planes, and Boats
    • Way to Go
    • Would You Step Out into Space?

Grades 3-5:  Return to Tumblebooks and have a look at these longer, more challenging chapter books:

    • Wombat Takes on Tasmania (Read-Along)
    • Wombat Smith, Beijing Breakaway!

6.  Write About It:  Where would you like to go that you have never been before?  What would you do and see there?  Right now most of us cannot travel.  Take this opportunity to plan a trip that you would like to take when travel is more accessible.  Consider making an infographic, a graphic organizer, a travel poster, or travel postcard.   Be creative and have fun!

Travel Postcards from Miss Betty’s Collection.

7. Beyond the Books:  Virtual Field Trips:  Take a virtual field trip and visit one of these exciting destinations:

Please Remember:  As always, be sure to adapt these activities to your own resources, languages, and children’s interests.  I hope that you have enjoyed our fourth week’s travel theme.  Look for another collection of reading and activity suggestions next week.  Next week, we will even have a special visitor!

Your Friend in the Library, Miss Betty