If you give a ... books by Laura Numeroff week:
During a first grade class before Easter, a first grader asked if she could pick out the book we read "next time." She chose If you give a cat a cupcake. We didn't do that during the 21st 6-day "week" but we are doing it now and it has opened up so many things to do. In Kindergarten, we looked at all of the If you give a... books and voted on whether to read If you give a pig a pancake or If you give a pig a party. Afterwards, we made the cutest pig hand puppets with paper bags.
I read If you give a cat a cupcake to PreK and 1st and then they decorate a big paper cupcake with "sprinkles" (made out of paper and sequins) and cut out a little picture of the cat from the book and pasted it somewhere on the cupcake.
For 2nd grade, I found a reading comprehension board game with the If you give a cat a cupcake theme, so after reading (and seeing) the book via a youtube video, the 2nd graders played the game in groups of three. We used plastic gems for markers and took turns reading and answering the cards.
In keeping with the "pig" part of this week, I showed the 3rd grade the database available to all SPES students. We have eLibrary - a database with over 2,000 full text sources. We looked up the artists Matisse and Picasso and looked at what the database could offer on those two topics. Then we watched a reading of When Pigasso met Mootise. I think the students really enjoyed hearing/seeing the book with their new knowledge of the artists.
In the 4th and 5th grades, we are still working on our "video game" - passing "levels" by completing worksheets on the library catalog, call numbers and locating resources in the library. In order to advance a level, the worksheets for that level have to be 100% correct.
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