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Read Along eBooks in Sora

  • Off & Away by Cale Atkinson
    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
    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
    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
    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
    A Jedi You Will Be by Preeti Chhibber / May 4: Star Wars Day
  • The Tea Party in the Woods by Akiko Miyakoshi
    The Tea Party in the Woods by Akiko Miyakoshi / May 21: Tea Day

Videos

Video 7:56

May 4: Star Wars Day

 

Star Wars BB-8 on the Run Read Aloud 

Video 4:37

May 4: Star Wars Day

Create a Yoda origami as a class.

Video 10:22

May 4: Star Wars Day

Have your students draw Baby Yoda after they have checked out a book.

Video 4:54

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

Video 12:14

May 8: Donkey Day

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, written and illustrated by the great William Steig.

Video 4:18

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.

Video 1:51

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.

Video 11:04

May 26: Paper Airplane Day

The Paper Airplane Guy: How to fold 5 paper stunt planes

Storyline Videos for Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month

Video: 8:35
The Sound of Silence by Katrina Goldsaito
Video: 8:58 
Stone Soup by Jon J Muth
Video: 8:07
The Empty Pot by Demi
Video: 9:14
The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet! by Carmen Agra Deedy