Welcome to Summer Reading, Week 1: ADVENTURE!
- Begin your adventure by following the links and listening to one of these summer-themed books:
- PreK-Grade 2: “Carl’s Summer Vacation” by Alexandra Day. This is a (mostly) wordless picture book. Use your languages to tell the story yourself! Carl’s Summer Vacation
- Grades 2-5: “Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach” by Mélanie Watt. Older readers, look at how this story is structured. It is full of checklists and diagrams, an usual format for a picture book! Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach
2. Continue your adventure by doing some extra, summer-themed reading. Go to the PXES Library Guide Home Page and choose Tumblebooks.
- PreK-Grade 2: Go to the Tumblebooks library and look for these titles:
- “Biscuit” by Alyssa Satin Capucilli.
- “A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee” by Chris Van Dusen.
- “Sink or Swim” by Valerie Coulman
- Grades 2-3: Go to the Tumblebooks library and look for these titles:
- “Nathan Saves Summer” by Gerry Renert
- “Daisy Diaz Shakes up Camp” by Lisa Harkrader
- “Lark Holds the Key” by Natasha Deen
- “Adventures at Camp Lots-O-Fun” by Marilyn Helmer
- Grades 4-5: Go to the Tumblebooks library and look for these titles:
- “Because of Winn Dixie” by Kate DiCamillo
- “Tom Swift, Young Inventor: Into the Abyss” by Victor Appleton
3. Head into the Kitchen and create something with food that reminds you of summer. Could you create Scaredy Squirrel’s beach? Carl and Madeline’s canoe? A swimming pool full of Lego people? Here is an example, created a few weeks ago by Ain, a student in 1NF. She made a swimming pool using a watermelon!! Many thanks to her family for sharing her work:
4. Get crafty with Made by Joel. Download, print, and color the camping scene, then imagine all kinds of camping adventures. Here’s the link: Made by Joel Camping Scene
5. Play Games: Using our digital magazine subscriptions, go to the July, 2020 issue of Highlights Magazine. On page 14-15, play Hidden Pictures. Go on a Riverboat Ride and find all of the hidden objects!
To access the digital magazines, start on the PXES Library Guide Home Page, linked above. Choose the third tab, “Early Elementary Magaines.” Click on Highlights Magazine. The July, 2020 issue will load. Use the forward arrow on the right to go to page 14-15 where you will find the Hidden Pictures puzzle. Use the “Zoom” feature to enlarge the image and play hidden pictures!
6. Learn: Staying in the July, 2020 issue of Highlights Magazine, advance to page 16-17 and find out why the sky is blue! Blue skies make our summers beautiful – discover the science behind our summer skies.
7. Write: Create your own Summer Adventure!
PreK-Grade 1: Think back to Carl and Madeline’s summer afternoon. Using a device with a camera, take a few pictures of things that you like to do on a summer day. Write a sentence to tell about each picture. You will have a story similar to Carl and Madeline’s! I hope that you don’t run into any skunks!!
Grades 1-5: Using your imagination and remembering everything you learned about writing this year, make a travel brochure to an imaginary place. Could you convince your reader to spend a week exploring a lollipop forest? Visit an undersea amusement park? Ride a bullet train through the center of the earth? Go camping on Mars? Get creative and get busy! The only thing more fun that reading someone else’s story is writing your own.
A few final words: Please remember that you can and should adapt these activities to your own resources and children’s interests. I hope that you have enjoyed our opening week’s Adventure theme. Look for another collection of reading and activity suggestions next week.
Your Friend in the Library, Miss Betty