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Weekly Library Links

Library Intro Video

Week 35 Video Everyone:
Bookish Beasts - Public Library Summer Program Video
Hedgie Blasts Off - by Jan Brett goes with coloring page
 

Week 34 Video Links:

K & 1 : Read Aloud - Ronan and Helga
Activity - Make your own helmet
No Book Menu
Extra time : Barbarians

2 : Read Aloud - Name Stories
Activity - What makes your name special?
No Book Menu

3 , 4 , & 5 : Finish Animal Acrostic
End of Year Video
Head to Canvas to watch book talks and trailers
Fill out a Summer Reads List
No Book Menus/Last Check out
Ode to the Librarian Flocabulary


Week 33 Video Links:

K : Meet an Author
Read Aloud - 2 Todd Parr books
Video - Todd Parr Short
Movement Break
Book Menu
Coloring Page

1 : Animal Eyes
Read Aloud - What if you had animal eyes?
Activity page
Other books in that series:
Dinosaur Parts - Book Trailer
Animal Ears - Read Aloud
Animal Nose - Read Aloud
Book Menu

2 : Author Study - Kevin Henkes
Read Aloud - Chrysanthemum
Complete her page and design your own mouse on the last page
Video - Kevin Reads
Book Menu

3, 4 , & 5 : Poetry
Read Aloud - Final Draft Instructions
Book Menu
 

Week 32 Video Links:

K : Meet an Author
Read Aloud - Teachers Rock!
Video - Meet Todd Parr
Todd Parr Short
Teacher Thank You activity
Book Menu

1 : Non-fiction - Animal Eyes
Continue working on Eye Spy project
Finish writing the clues and drawing the pictures.
Students can read theirs for class to guess.
Book Menu
Extra time - Star Wars Day Read Aloud

2 : Author Study - Kevin Henkes
Read Aloud - Sheila Rae the Brave
and Chester's Way
Complete their pages in the Mouse Album
Book Menu

3 , 4 , & 5 : Poetry
Read Aloud - Who will Roar if I go?
Work on animal acrostic rough draft
Book Menu



Week 31 Video Links:

K : Non-fiction

Read Aloud - Animal Eyes
Book Menu
Animal Eye Activity
Nature Cat - video
Movement Break video if needed - Guess Who? Pets

1st grade : Non-fiction
Read Aloud - Animal Eyes
Eye Activity
Book Menu

2nd : Author Study - Kevin Henkes
Read Aloud - Wemberly
Weekend with Wendell
Book Menu

3 , 4 , & 5 : Poetry
What is an Acrostic Poem? - Video
Read Aloud - Animal Ark
Use PebbleGo to research animal
Animal Acrostic Rough Draft
Book Menu/Checkout
 



Week 30 Video Links:

K & 1 : Non-fiction
Read Aloud - An Egg is Quiet and Whose Egg?
Song - Guess the Egg
Guess the Egg Song 2
Book Menu
Reading Rainbow - Chickens Aren't the Only Ones

2nd : Author Study - Kevin Henkes
Read Aloud - Lily's Plastic Purse
Complete Lily page in Mouse Album
Book Menu
Extra time - Kevin Henkes talks about his book Little White Rabbit
Read Aloud - Little White Rabbit

3 , 4 , & 5 - Poetry
Read Aloud - Daniel Finds a Poem
Nature Poems
Shel Silverstein Poem - Backward Bill
Book Menu/Book Check-out



Week 29 Video Links:

K & 1 : Non-fiction/Fiction Review
Read Aloud - Panda Stories
Movement Break - Panda Dance
Cool Down - Panda Bear
Make your own Giant Panda
Book Menu
Live Panda Cam at Wolong
Pandas Playing in the snow - Video

2nd : Author Study
Read Aloud - When Spring Comes
Meet Kevin Henkes - Video
Read Aloud - Owen
Book Menu

3 , 4 , & 5 : Poetry
Read Aloud - Word Collector and Brainpop Jr Video
Shel Silverstein poem - 8 Balloons
Read Aloud
Book Menu
Extra time - Magnetic Poetry
(Book Checkout only 4th &5th)
 

Week 28 Video Links:

K , 1 , & 2 : Golden Archer Award
Read Aloud - Award Winner
How to draw Pony
Book Menu
Movement Break - At Your Seat

3 , 4 , & 5 : Poetry
Read Aloud - Poetree
How to Write a Poem - Video
Poem by Shel Silverstien
Book Menu
ECASDLMSPPMM Winner - Video
Extra Time - Rewatch Winning Story
 

Week 26 Video Links:

K & 1 : Tradtional Literature
Fractured Fariytales
Traditional Jack and the Beanstalk
Read Aloud - Jack and the Beanstalk and French Fries
Movement Break - Plant a Bean
Book Menu
Extra story - The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Coloring page

2nd : Biographies
Read Aloud - The World Needs Who You Were Made to be
Visit PebbleGo Biographies to complete biography pyramid
Book Menu
Extra Time - Trombone Shorty

3rd : Digital Citizenship
Super Digital Citizen Intro
Internet Safety - Brainpop Jr.
Work on Final Project for rest of Library time
Book Menu
ECASDLMSPPBMM - Top Two
Top Two Voting Link

4 & 5 : Historical Fiction
What is it? - Genre Review
Read Aloud - A Knock at the Door
ECASDLMSPPBMM - Top Two
Top Two Voting Link
Book Menu
New Books! Trailer 4

Week 25 Video Links:

K & 1 : Traditional Literature : Fairytales & Folktales
Read Aloud - Sootypaws
Movement Break - Nursery Rhymes
Book Menu
Extra Time - Traditional Cinderella Tale

2nd : Biographies
Read Aloud - Fred's Big Feelings
Visit Biographies on PebbleGo
Book Menu

3rd : Digital Citizenship
Read Aloud - Blackout
Be a Super Digital Citizen -  presentation
Book Menu
Final Four Video
Final Four Brackets
Voting Link

4 & 5 : Genres - Historical Fiction
Read Aloud - Boxes for Katje
Book Menu
Final Four Video
Final Four Brackets
Voting Link

Week 24 Video Links:

K & 1 : Traditional Literature - Fairytales and Folktales
Read Aloud - How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
Map of our where are stories are from
(1st grade can watch the story they missed last week - Why Do Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears?)
Movement Break - Going on a Bear Hunt
Book Menu
Activity - Color Stripes on Chipmunk

2nd : Biographies
Read Aloud - Sophia  Valdez and 
Pura Belpre
Book Menu
Activity - Design your own button

3 , 4 , & 5 : Picture Book March Madness
Elite 8 Intro - Mrs. Brostrom
Round 1 Winners
Annouced by Ms. Abel

Next listen to the 2 videos we haven't heard (depends on class)
Turtle and Tortoise are not friends
The Barnabus Project
The Panda Problem
Voting Link for Final 4
Book Menu


Week 23 Video Links:

K & 1 : Traditional Literature - Fairytales and Folktales
Intro Video
Read Aloud - Why Do Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears?
Map of where our stories are
Book Menu
Activity - Students can watch the virtual tour of Africa while they color
Movement Break -
Animals in Action with Jack Hartmann

2nd : Biographies
Read Aloud - Ada Twist Scientist and Mae Jemison
Book Menu
Activity: Space Helmet

3 , 4 , & 5 : Picture Book March Madness
Continue to fill out packet
(collect after class)
Brackets Week 1
Match Up 6 : 
3rd grade:
Great, Now We've Got Barbarians!
Turtle and Tortoise are Not Friends
Voting Link
Book Menu
4 & 5 :
Felix and the Monsters
The Barnabus Project
Voting Link
Book Menu
New Books! Trailer 3

Week 22 Video Links:

K & 1 : Traditional Literature - Fairytales and Folktales
Read Aloud - Tiny Feet Between the Mountains
Map of where our stories are vs where we are
Tiger Activity - Finished Example
Book Menu
Extra:
South Korea on PebbleGo
Silly Tiger Song to get the wiggles out - Youtube

2nd - Biographies
Read Aloud - Rosie Revere, Engineer and Whoosh!
Book Menu
Paper Copter How-to

3 , 4 , & 5 : Picture Book March Madness
Continue to fill out packet
(collect after class)
Match Up 4 :
Bad Dog
Grumpy Monkey - Up All Night
Voting Link

Match Up 5 :
Kitties on Dinosaurs
No More Naps!
Voting Link

Book Menu


Week 21 Video Links:

K & 1 : Traditional Literature - Fairytales and Folktales
Read Aloud - The 3 Snow Bears
Polar Bears on PebbleGO - listen to it as a class, if time can also go to Polar Animals
Activity Mini-book
1st grade or if Extra time:
How to draw a baby polar bear with author Jan Brett
Book Menu

2nd : Biographies
Read Aloud - Iggy Peck Architect and Prairie Boy : Frank Lloyd Wright
Book Menu
Tangram Challenge

3 , 4 , & 5 : Picture Book March Madness
Continue to fill out packet from last week (collect after class)
Match Up 2 :
Dandy
A Thousand Nos 
Voting Link
Match Up 3 :
Llama Destorys the World
Old Rock (is not boring)
Voting Link
Book Menu

Week 20 Video Links:

K, 1, & 2 : Valentine Stories
Read Aloud - Nobody Hugs a Cactus
Activity:
How to draw a cactus
Next story: Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch


Book Menu

3, 4, & 5 : March Madness
Kick Off Video - Mrs. Brostrom
Intro Video - Ms. Abel
Match Up 1 :
Unstoppable
On Account of the Gum
Voting link
Fill out Reflection in Packet
Book Menu


Week 19 Video Links:

K, 1, & 2 : Retell the Story
First color and cut out the animal cards. As they listen to the story they can glue them down in order.
Read Aloud - Cozy
Book Menu
Welcome to a Musk Ox Farm - Video
Extra time: Wild Kratts Musk Ox Clip - Video
National Geo. Musk Ox in Siberia - Video

3rd : Digital Citizenship
Being Responsible Media Balance
Read Aloud - Me, Myselfie & I
Media Balance is Important - Discussion Slideshow
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Finish up Email Mad Lib
February is Black History Month
Read Aloud - Mae Among the Stars and other biographies
Book Menu

Week 18 Video Links:

K, 1 , & 2 : Golden Archer Award
Nominee #5 : Bad Seed
Vote! Vote! Vote!
How to Draw the Bad Seed
Book Menu
Extra time : Listen to the newest book by Jory John and Pete Oswald - Couch Potato

3rd : Digital Citizenship
Read Aloud: Internet Safety
Private and Personal Information - Video
That's Private Slide Presentation
Student Handout
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Digital Citizenship
Intro video - and handout
Email Mad Lib Video
Book Menu


Week 17 Video Links:

K , 1 , & 2 : Golden Archer Award
Nominee #3 & #4 : The Pigeon Has to go to School and The Thank You Book
Choose one or both if time:
How to Draw Pigeon
How to Draw Piggie
Book Menu

3rd : Digital Citizenship
Read Aloud - #Goldilocks
Digital Trail Slideshow
Digital Detectives Activity
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Digital Citizenship
Read Aloud - I am Kind Online and Email 
Re-write activity
Book Menu


Week 16 Video Links:

K , 1, & 2 : Golden Archer Award
Nominee #2 : We Don't Eat Our Classmates
Studio Time (#1) with Ryan T. Higgins
Book Menu
(K) Coloring Page
(1st & 2nd) Friendship Sandwich Activity
Extra time: 
We Will Rock Our Classmates - the second book about Penelope Rex

3rd : Digital Citizenship
Read Aloud - Staying Safe Online
Staying Safe Online Book/Song
Safety in My Online Neighborhood
Discussion
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Netiquette 
Read Aloud - Online Manners and Troll Stinks
Say it Nicely Activity/Discussion
Book Menu

Week 15 Video Links:

K, 1, & 2 : The Golden Archer Award
Read Aloud- Last Year's Winner &
1st Nominee - King Baby

Draw King Baby with author Kate Beaton skip ahead to min. 6:30
Book Menu
Extra time:
2nd grade only: More about the award slide presentation

3 : Using the Online Catalog
Read Aloud - Winter is the Warmest Season
Catalog Tutorial Video
Practice Subject Search - Worksheet
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Digital Citizenship
Read Aloud - Nerdy Birdy Tweets
Video - Be Kind Online with Garfield
Book Menu



Week 14 Video Links:

K & 1 : Dino-cember
Read Aloud - Dinosaur Christmas
Dino Christmas Song
How to Draw a Dinosaur with shapes
Book Menu
We wish you a T-rexmas song
Extra Time : Seesaw Dinosaur Activity


2 & 3 : Order in the Library
Alphabetical Order Review Video
Read Aloud - Dewey's Christmas
Order in the Library pt.2
Book Menu
Dewey the Cat Handout


4 & 5 : Realistic Fiction
Review the Elements Video
Read Aloud - Intro
Read Aloud - Too Many Tamales
Book Menu
Christmas Book Kahoot


Week 13 Video Links:

K & 1 : Dino - cember
Read aloud "What the Dinosaurs Did at School"
Dino Quiz - students will need to open their quiz in seesaw (slide 2)
Take the quiz together as a class
Learn more about your dinosaur on PebbleGo
Book Menu
Extra time: Dinosaur Stomp (youtube)

2 & 3 : Order in Library
Read aloud "How to Find a Book"
Order in the Library PPT
Book Menu
Extra time :
2nd - Winter Word Order in Seesaw
3rd - Shelve it Game in Canvas

4 & 5 : Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction Genre (youtube)
Elements of Realistic Fiction - Handout
Read aloud "Owl Moon"
Book Menu
Extra story : My Rotten Red Headed Brother - StorytimeOnline
Book Menu
 

Week 12 Video Links:

K & 1 : How to Read a Book
Charlotte and the Rock Read Aloud

2 & 3 : Order in the Library
L is for Library Read Aloud

4 & 5 : Introduction to Realistic Fiction
A Different Pond Read Aloud
Extra video: Enemy Pie (StorylineOnline)


Week 11 Video Links:

K & 1 : 3 Ways to Read
Read the Words - ABC Books
ABC Letters in the Library - Tumblebooks
Try activity in Seesaw
Book Menu

2 & 3 : November Themed Reads
Take quiz in Canvas
Thanksgiving Workout with Slim Goodbody
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Digital Citizenship
Try going to Canvas to take pre-test
Online Privacy
Book Menu


Week 10 Video Links:

K & 1 : Research - Nocturnal Animals
Brainstorm as a class a list
of about 8 nocturnal animals
Students choose one to research
using PebbleGo
Fill out answers and draw pictures
Book Menu


2 & 3 : Research - Skeletons
Doing our own research on Skeletons
Skeletal System on PebbleGo
2nd - Find 1 fact to write down
3rd - Find 2 or more facts to write down
Color your skeleton.
Book Menu

Extra Time:
Fossils are bones from creatures that lived in the past and can tell us a lot about them.
Listen to Digging up Dinosaurs to learn more about fossils.

4 & 5 : Pause Before You Post
Cyber Safety with Garfield
Book Menu
Extra Time - Crossword


Week 9 Video Links:

K & 1 : Fiction and Non-fiction
Night Animals Need Sleep Too
Non-fiction Opossums

You will need your iPads
for the next activity
Nocturnal Animals on PebbleGo
Book Menu

2 & 3 : Non-fiction
Skulls
Whose Skeleton? trivia game
You will need your iPad
for the next activity
Skeletal System on PebbleGo
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Digital Citizenship
Read Aloud : The Technology Tail
What is a Digital Citizen? (video clip)
Digital Footprint Activity
Book Menu
Chapter 4 - Amoung the Dolls

Week 8 Video Links:

K & 1 : Bats at the Library and Nightsong
Song about Echolocation (youtube)
Fold a Bat Activity page
Book Menu

2 & 3 : Dia de los Muertos and Just One Itsy Bitsy Little Bite
Dia de los Muertos Short Film
Book Menu
Extra time: Activity page

4 & 5 : How to Make Friends with a Ghost
The Ghost of Sifty Sifty Sam
Emily Arrow Matching Book Song
Book Menu
New Books Trailer cohort A
New Books Trailer cohort B
 

Week 7 Video Links:

K & 1 : Flashlight and Night Animals
Book Menu
N is for Night (short video)
Night Animal Coloring Page
Extra time: Stellaluna video

2 & 3 : Fiction and Non-fiction
Dem Bones and Day of the Dead
Scroll to the bottom of the page for the Dem Bones Song and the
Day of the Dead Song

Halloween Holidays Around the World
Book Menu
Bookmark

4 & 5 : Pigeon P.I.
Mystery Crossword
Book Menu
New Books Trailer cohort B
New Books Trailer cohort A
Among the Dolls chapter 2 & 3
Extra: Pigeon P.I. Coloring Page


Week 6 Video Links:

K & 1 : 3 Ways to Read - Read the Pictures - Wordless Books -
Spencer's New Pet and Be a Friend
Be a Friend Music Video
Extra : Kids Meet a Mime Video
Book Menu
Be a Friend Coloring Page

2 & 3 : Fiction and Non-fiction -
What is Fiction? What is Non-fiction?
Skeleton Hiccups and The Bones You Own
Fiction or Non-fiction Book & Song
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Mystery Genre Continued
The Mystery of King Karfu
Book Menu
Among the Dolls - chapter 1 (audio)
Mystery Bookmark


Week 5 Video Links:

K & 1 : How to Bake a Book and How to Teach Your Slug to Read
Make Your Own Slug (example)
Book Menu

2 & 3 : The Best Book to Read and Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I don't)
Why should we read?(slides)
Because Reading Gives us Super Powers!
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Mystery Foldable Mini Book
Miss Nelson is Missing
Mystery Coloring Page (color and listen)
Encyclopedia Brown (Audio Read A loud)
Book Menu


Week 4 Video Links: Looking for Books

K & 1 : Pete the Cat Checks Out the Library and Splat the Cat and the Late Library Book
Where is My Book Song
Pete the Cat Coloring Page
Book Menu
Extra Time : Pete the Cat Video - Cool Cat Boogie

2 & 3 : Goldie Socks and the 3 Libearians
The 5 Finger Rule Bookmark
Book Menu
Try out the 5 Finger Rule with your new books

4 & 5: The Book of Gold
How to Search the Catalog
Book Menu

Week 3 Video Links:
Books are Treasure

K & 1 : Fly Dragon Fly Rhyme
There's a Dragon in My Book
Five Little Dragons Rhyme
Dragon Coloring Page
Book Menu
Return My Book Rhyme

2 & 3 : Henry and the Buccaneer 
Books are Treasure Book Care
Pirate Coloring Activity
Book Menu

4 & 5 : Genre Intro Video
Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes
Genre recap video
Book Menu
Fall Bookmark



Week 2 Video Links:
We Care about Books

K : The Pigeon Has to go to School
Book Care Video Starring the Pigeon
Perfectly Messed up Story
Hand-out: Book Care Mini Coloring Book Read it together before coloring
Book Menu

1st : The Book that Jake Borrowed along with bookmark to follow along
Book Care Video Starring the Pigeon
Book Care Object Lesson
Book Menu
Extra time watch : 
Perfectly Messed up Story


2 & 3 : Ronan the Librarian
Hand-out White Drawing Paper
Students will need a black marker or crayon to start
Draw Your Own Babarian - Guided Drawing Video
Book Menu

4 & 5 : The Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Animated Film the Book is Based On
Book Menu
Extra Time: students can look at their new library books


Week 1 Video Links:
Back to School

K & 1 : Don't Worry Little Crab 
Hand out book menu then play video
            Book Menu 
Coloring hand out to go with book
Extra video: Cranky Crabs Song (youtube)
If time is still left see extra videos at the bottom to watch.

2 & 3 : School's First Day of School 
           Hand out blank white paper before next video
           They Saw a Cat 
Hand out book menu then play video
           Book Menu 2nd Grade
           Book Menu 3rd Grade

4 & 5 :Butterflies on the First Day of School
          Hand out Origami Paper before next video. Feel free to pause while folding.
          Origami Butterfly Tutorial 
Hand out Book Menu then play next video
          Book Menu
Hand out Butterfly Bookmark if time

Extra videos:

Grade Level Links

Kindergarten
1st Grade - Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Pebble GO - Animals
2nd Grade
3rd Grade - Shelve It! - Call Number Order
4th Grade
5th Grade - Soundzabound

Library Resources

Welcome to the Sam Davey Elementary Library Media Center, where kids read, learn, and have fun. 

Click different links in the navigation and to the right to search for books in the Sam Davey library or link to fun and educational websites.

We believe that library media programs are essential to 21st century life skills; therefore, our mission is to:
*promote a love of reading connect learners with ideas and information;
*teach information technologies;
*to prepare students for life-long learning and informed decision-making;
*participate as active partners in the teaching/learning process; and
*provide leadership in the total education program.

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