SUMMER READING LOG Color in One Square for Every 10 Minutes That You Read This Summer! Bring Your Completed Picture Back to the Library in August
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SUMMER READING LOG Color in one square for every 10 minutes that you read this summer! Bring your completed picture back to the Library in August. 2020-2021 LYRC 3-5th Grade Nominated Title List 1. All That Trash: The Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem with Stuff written and illustrated by Meghan McCarthy 2. Art of the Swap, The by Kristine Asselin and Jen Malone 3. Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace, illustrated by Bryan Collier 4. Boo-Boos That Changed the World, The: A True Story About an Accidental Invention (Really!) by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Chris Hsu 5. Charlie and Frog Book #1 by Karen Kane 6. Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes 7. Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker, illustrated by Tiemdow Phumiruk 8. Dear Sister by Alison McGhee, Illustrated by Joe Bluhm 9. Fly to the Rescue (Tiny Geniuses: Book 1) by Megan E. Bryant 10. Hammering for Freedom by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, illustrated by John Holyfield 11. Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment (Book #1) by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein 12. Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, The by Stacy McAnulty 13. Phantom Tower, The by Keir Graff 14. Saving Fiona: The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo by Thane Maynard 15. Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann These are the 2020-2021 nominated titles for the Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice (LYRC) Awards if you would like to read some of them over the summer. The LYRC Awards are sponsored by the State Library of Louisiana and allow students to vote on their favorite book of the year (from a list of nominated titles selected by Louisiana librarians.) For several years, ASH students in third and fourth grade have participated in the LYRC voting, and, for the past two years, we have been lucky to have actual voting machines from the Secretary of State for students to use! We will be discussing this in greater detail in the Library next year, and we will also have all of the nominated titles available for check out. PREKINDERGARTEN/ KINDERGARTEN SUMMER READING 2020 Enclosed please find suggested Summer Reading titles to read over the summer break. You may find additional choices from your public library or bookstore. Each page includes optional activities to accompany the reading. These are OPTIONAL, but your daughter is welcome to bring any final artwork or writing to the Library at the beginning of the school year. We strongly encourage FAMILY reading, too! If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Library! Resources: Audio books are reading, too! You can borrow and read free ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines from your library using your phone or tablet! Free databases are also available. Our library website will also be available over the summer and is accessible 24/7. From the homepage, students and their families have access to our ebook collection as well as to the Gale databases, Capstone databases (PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next), and to World Book Online Encyclopedia. To get to the ASH Library homepage and electronic catalog: 1. Go to http://destiny.arch-no.org/ 2. Click “Archdiocese of New Orleans” 3. Click “Academy of the Sacred Heart” under Elementary Schools Login for ASH ebooks: Login for World Book Online: Username: first initial, last name, 2 year Username: ash digit of graduation (ex. sholmes19) Password: library Password: lunch/library number Login for PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next: Login for Gale Databases: Username: ashla Username: ash Password: school Password: library CONTENTS: □ Summer Reading List □ Postcard Instructions □ Reading Coloring Log □ Postcards NATURE You Nest Here with Me Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, Illustrated by Melissa Sweet An ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds as a mother Maple (series) describes to her child how many Lori Nichols species of birds nest, from pigeons A nature-loving little girl's favorite on concrete ledges to owls in oak playmate is her maple tree until the tree boles to swallows above barn day she's surprised with a baby doors. sister. Flowers Are Calling Rita Gray, Illustrated by Kenard Pak Rhyming text and color illustrations explain how pollination happens, looking at the natural cooperation between plants, animals, and insects. Finding Wild Megan Wagner Lloyd, Illustrated by Abigail Halpin There are so many places that Run Wild wild can exist, if only you David Covell know where to look! Can you A celebration of the joy of being find it? Two kids set off on an outdoors features a child who adventure away from their abandons his digital device in favor of urban home and discover all joining a friend outside the beauty of the natural world. The children discover that wild exists not just off in some distant place, but right in their own backyard. Optional Activities: □Take a walk, ride a bike, or garden/play in your own backyard. □When you get home, draw a picture of something you saw outside in nature! Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Cy Makes a Friend The Ann Marie Stephens, Adventures of Illustrated by Tracy Subisak Otto: See Pip Cy the Cyclops can make just Flap (series) about anything, except a friend. David Even practicing skills such as Milgrim making eye contact and winking With help doesn't seem to help. Then Cy from his remembers that it's nice to share, 2019 Seuss friend Otto the so he turns his talent for making Geisel Honor Book robot, Pip the things to creating a special some- mouse tries to thing just right for two. Charlotte the Scientist is Squished (1st in series) Camille Andros, Illustrated by Brianne Farley Charlotte, a serious scientist (and a bunny), uses the scientific method to solve her problem: being squished by her many brothers and sisters. A Trip to the Top of the Volcano with Mouse Frank Viva Love, Z A boy and a mouse trek to Jessie Sima the top of a volcano, taking A little robot named Z finds a message in in soaring trees, lunar a bottle signed, "Love, Beatrice" and, landscapes and snow unable to learn what love is from other capped peaks, then return robots, sets out on a quest to find the to the ancient city at the answer. bottom. Optional Activities: □Find some items around your house,* □Put them together to make your own creation! □Write a few sentences about or draw a picture of what you made. *Ask your parents before using anything of theirs! POETRY Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild Rhyme Crime World in Poetry and Jon Burgerman Pictures A thief wreaks havoc by Kwame Alexander, switching things out for Photography by Joel rhyming counterparts, Sartore until he's stumped by an Through the poetry form unrhymable word. of haiku, the animal world is embraced and lovingly examined. I’m Just No Good at Rhyming Lion of the Sky: Haiku for Chris Harris, All Seasons Illustrated by Lane Smith Laura Purdie Salas, An illustrated collection Illustrated by: Mercè Lopez of comically irreverent Haiku meet riddles in this rhyming poems for poetry collection readers of all ages, celebrating the seasons and ranging in topic from describing everything from avocados and anacondas an earthworm to a baseball to to zombies and zebras an apple to snow angels. (dressed like ghosts). Daniel Finds a Poem Micha Archer Bookjoy Wordjoy A little boy's animal Pat Mora, friends help him discover Illustrated by Raul the poetry to be found in Colón nature. Collection of poems *Ezra Jack Keats Award celebrating words. Winner! Optional Activities: □Find your own WORDJOY, and write a poem (ex. rhyming, concrete, haiku, free verse). □For added fun, read or recite your poem to a friend or family member. ART The Book of Mistakes Corinna Luyken An artist learns how her “mistakes” are actually part of her imaginative process. Drawn Together Minh Lê, Hey, Wall: Illustrated by Dan Santat A Story of Art and Community A boy and his grandfather Susan Verde, cross a language and cultural Illustrated by John Parra barrier using their shared love A creative young man unites his of art, storytelling, and fantasy. community to turn a forgotten wall into a neighborhood mural. Just Add Glitter Angela DiTerlizzi, Illustrated by Samantha Cotterill A young girl decorates everything with glitter. Can there ever be too much glitter? Georgia’s Terrific, Colorific Experiment Zoe Persico Masterpiece Mix Georgia wants to become a Roxie Munro famous scientist, but she does not Thirty-seven masterpieces inspire think her family of artists can be an artist who is wondering what to of any help to her. paint. Includes a seek-and-find. Optional Activities: □Use sidewalk chalk to create your own community mural outside. □Go to the museum (you can do this virtually!), and pick a favorite painting or work of art. What do you like about it? □Draw a picture of something that you saw at the museum. READING AND WRITING Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian Jacob Sager Weinstein, Illustrated by Vera Brosgol When evil Dr. Glockenspiel threatens all the books in the world, only one person can stop him--a book-wielding, super-secret operative called Lyric McKerrigan. What If… Samantha Berger, I Can Be Anything: Don’t Tell Me I Illustrated by Mike Curato Can’t A child who likes to draw and Diane Dillon write stories imagines what Zoe is sure that she can be anything she would happen if there were no wants to be, despite a little voice of pencils, paper, or other tools doubt that points out the problems with for being creative her ideas--but first she needs to learn how to read.