Beyond Books
Courtney Tracy
Following Your Passions - Career Exposure for Kindergarten and 1st Graders
Balloons Over Broadway - The true story of the puppeteer of Macy's parade By Melissa Sweet
Non-Fiction
Caldecott Honor Award - 2011
Digital Connections:
Students can practice their puppeteering skills with virtual
http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~nve/GameHUB/HetFirmament/2011-10-24/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/106680-Virtual-puppetry
Video of Tony Sarg's Marionettes: (Preview only the very beginning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6ieDZOkVZkU
Video of Macy's Day Parade:
Me ... Jane By Patrick McDonnell
Non-Fiction
Caldecott Honor Award - 2011
Digital Connections:
Students can see Jane Goodall's website to see who Jane really is and see how she has created a foundation based upon her passion for gorillas.
Students can watch a video from National Geographic of Jane's interactions with gorillas:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/specials/in-the-field-specials/jane-goodall-retrospective/
The Little White Owl By Tracey Corderoy Illustrated by Jane Chapman
Fiction
Digital Connections
Have students create their own "Little White Owls" craft and they type or verbally narrate their stories that they think "Little Owl" would tell.
http://www.iheartcraftythings.com/2012/10/the-little-white-owl-craft.html
Students can use VoiceThread, or Audacity to record their oral stories and share them with their peers.
Students can listen to Eric Carle tell about how he came to write "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".
So You Want to be President? By Judith Saint George Illustrated by David Small
Fiction
Caldecott Gold Honor 2001
Digital Connections
Live the life of a President and see how your choices relate to past presidents!
http://pbskids.org/democracy/be-president/Discover how Abe Lincoln became president:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/lincoln%5Factivity1/index.htm
Explore Kid President videos and have students create their own using video cameras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-gQLqv9f4o
Kid President meets President Obama:
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” - Rumi
Citations
Corderoy, T. (2010). The little white owl. London: Little Tiger Press.
George, J. S. (2000). So you want to be president? New York: Philomel Nooks.
McDonnell, P. (2011). Me...jane. Nlvew York: Little, Brown and Company.
Sweet, M. (2011). Balloons over broadway: the story of the puppeteer of macy's parade.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Hartcourt Publishing Company.
Images:
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