Off & Away by Cale Atkinson / 1st full week in May: Children's Book Week
No lamas este libro (Do Not Lick This Book) by Idan Ben-Barak / 1st full week in May: Children's Book Week
Football GOATs The Greatest Athletes of All Time by Bruce Berglund / 1st full week in May: Children's Book Week
All Because of the Tail by Maria Luisa Di Gravio / 1st full week in May: Children's Book Week
A Jedi You Will Be by Preeti Chhibber / May 4: Star Wars Day
The Tea Party in the Woods by Akiko Miyakoshi / May 21: Tea Day
Videos
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May 4: Star Wars Day
Star Wars BB-8 on the Run Read Aloud
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May 4: Star Wars Day
Create a Yoda origami as a class.
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May 4: Star Wars Day
Have your students draw Baby Yoda after they have checked out a book.
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May 5: Astronaut Day
From TED Ed, find out what it’s like to become an astronaut — the hard work, the waiting, the disappointments, the emergency training, and the excitement
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May 8: Donkey Day
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, written and illustrated by the great William Steig.
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Make a Book Day (on the Thursday of National Family Reading Week)
What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does it have to do with paper, binding, font, ink, its weight in your hands, the smell of the pages? To answer these questions, Julie Dreyfuss goes back to the start of the book as we know it to show how these elements came together to make something more than the sum of their parts.
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May 16: Do Something Good For Your Neighbor Day
Every week, Herman Travis loads up a heavy shopping cart full of groceries from a food bank and pushes it up a hill for delivery to elderly and disabled neighbors.