Friday Reads – Booktalking #kidlit

Picture Book of the Day

The Berenstain Bears Go on Vacation
by Stan Berenstain (Author), Mike Berenstain (Author) and Jan Berenstain (Author, Illustrator)

Booktalk: It’s summer vacation, and the Berenstain Bears are off to the seashore for sun and fun. (Last chance to read this before school starts next week!)

Snippet:
They see the sea.
They hear it roar.
There is something special
about the shore.

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Poetry Friday

Poetry Friday

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Dori Reads

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Chapter Book of the Day

Junior Scientists: Experiment with Heat (Science Explorer Junior)
by Sophie Lockwood (Author)
32 pages

Booktalk: Find out how scientists work by doing simple experiments. (It’s been over 100 degrees here for WEEKS so this seemed like a good book for all of the kids going back to school on Monday…)

Snippet:
We will use the scientific method to learn more about heat. Heat affects almost everything in our world. We feel it in our weather. We use it to prepare our food.

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STEM Friday

STEM Friday

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
This week’s STEM Friday Round-up is hosted by Simply Science

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My Book of the Week

Block Party

Block Party by Anastasia Suen
A Bebop Easy Reader

Reading level: Guided Reading™: E DRA: 6 Reading Recovery®: 7
Paperback: 16 pages
Publisher: Bebop Books

Join two friends, Tanya and Rosa, as they ride in a patriotic bike parade through their neighborhood and end up at fun-filled block party.

Fiesta de barrio

Also available in Spanish as Fiesta de barrio.

Activities:

Host your own block party.

Have a block party for kids.

Use these Block Party book lesson plans.

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Literary Links

Free “back to school” e-books including Portable MFA, Organized Teacher, Happy Classroom, (and 7 more!) til 8/22

Profiles of real scientists at the Smithsonian make science come alive for students

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