David Goes to School
Plants
What do they have? What do they need? What do they give?
Making our Tree Maps about Plants
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Recycling Project Ideas
These are just ideas. You may choose anything you want to recycle.
Browse the internet for more ideas.
Projects are due Friday, April 26th
Bottle Cap Animals
Newspaper Art
Toy Airplane from empty lotion/shampoo bottle
Soda bottle tractor
Mosaic Wall Art
Message Center from a Cooking Sheet with Tin Can
Clorox Wipes Container turned grocery bag dispenser
Baby Sock Mobile
Reuse a jar with a new purpose
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Click the binder below for Poetry FUN!!!
February 3, 2013
My
Friend Scooter
I’ve got a friend named Scooter.
I’m meeting him at noon.
He’s bringing his new poodle.
We will go swimming soon.
We’re bringing gooey noodles.
We’re bringing lots of food.
We’re bringing chewy cashews,
In case we’re in the mood.
Let’s not forget our soup spoons,
To use this afternoon.
We’ll have a little party.
Let’s bring along balloons.
When
I Grow Older
My older sister likes to read a good book.
My older brother likes to stir and cook.
When I grow older, I could read this book.
When I grow older, I could learn to cook.
My older sister likes to fish in the brook.
My older brother likes to bait the hook.
When I grow older, I could fish in the brook.
When I grow older, I could bait the hook.
I am the youngest child of us all.
I look and listen because I’m small!
Surprises
Jean Conder
Soule
Surprises
are round
Or long and
tallish.
Surprises
are square
Or flat and
smallish.
Surprises
are wrapped
With paper and
bow,
And
hidden in closets
Where secrets
won’t show.
Surprises
are often
Good things to
eat;
A
get-well toy or
A birthday treat.
Surprises
come
In such
interesting sizes-
I
LIKE
SURPRISES!
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January 28, 2013
Literacy Focus: Myths
Below is a myth you can read with your child:
How Frog Went to
Heaven
A Tale of Angola
Told by Aaron
Shepard Reader’s Theater
Edition #19
Adapted for
reader’s theater (or readers theatre) by the author, from his story printed in
Australia’s School Magazine, July 1996
PREVIEW: Frog helps
a young man who wants to marry the Sky Maiden.
GENRE: Folktales,
myths
CULTURE: African,
Angolan
THEME:
Inventiveness, determination
READERS: 16 or more
READER AGES: 7–9
LENGTH: 8 minutes
ROLES: Narrators
1–5
Kimana
Rabbit
Antelope
Hawk
Frog
Girls (2 or more)
Sun Chief
Moon Lady
Sky Maiden
Doctor
(Other Sky People)
NOTES: This
tale comes from the Mbaka tribe, part of the Ambundu people of northwest
Angola. In most of Africa—and in many other cultures worldwide—it is the custom
for a groom to send a wedding gift to the bride’s family. Kimana is
pronounced “kee-MAH-nah.”
How Frog Went to
Heaven
Reader’s
Theater
NARRATOR
1: There was once a young man named Kimana. He wanted to marry the
Sky Maiden. He wrote a letter to her father, the Sun Chief.
KIMANA: (reads
letter as he writes) “I, Kimana, a man of earth, wish to marry the Sky
Maiden, your daughter.”
NARRATOR
4: Kimana went to Rabbit.
KIMANA: (holds
out letter) Will you take this letter?
NARRATOR
4: Rabbit said,
RABBIT: I
cannot go to Heaven. (hops away)
NARRATOR
2: Kimana went to Antelope.
KIMANA: (holds
out letter) Will you take this letter?
NARRATOR
2: Antelope said,
ANTELOPE: I
cannot go to Heaven. (leaps away)
NARRATOR
5: Kimana went to Hawk.
KIMANA: (holds
out letter) Will you take this letter?
NARRATOR
5: Hawk said,
HAWK: I
can go halfway. But I cannot go to Heaven. (flies away)
NARRATOR 3: Then
Frog came to Kimana.
FROG: (hops
in) Why do you not take the letter yourself?
NARRATOR
3: Kimana said,
KIMANA: This
I cannot do.
FROG: Then
I will take it for you.
NARRATOR
3: Kimana laughed.
KIMANA: (laughs)
Can a frog take a letter to Heaven?
FROG: Whatever
it is, I can do it. But only if I try. (takes letter in mouth, hops away)
NARRATOR
1: Now, Frog lived by a well. Every day, the girls who served the
Sun Chief came to this well. They climbed down from Heaven on a web made by
Spider. Then they filled their water jugs and went home.
NARRATOR
4: Frog put the letter in his mouth and hid in the well. The girls
from Heaven came for water, singing their song.
GIRLS: (come
singing)
Good day to
you, my sister.
Good day to you.
NARRATOR
2: They lowered their jugs into the well, and Frog jumped into one.
The girls did not see.
NARRATOR
5: Then the girls climbed back up the web of Spider. They went into
the house of the Sun Chief and left the jugs in a room.
NARRATOR
3: Frog was alone. He jumped out of the jug and spit the letter out
on a bench.
FROG: (spits
out letter)
NARRATOR
3: Then he hid in a corner.
NARRATOR
1: The Sun Chief came for a drink of water. He saw the letter and
opened it. He read,
SUN
CHIEF: “I, Kimana, a man of earth, wish to marry the Sky Maiden,
your daughter.”
NARRATOR
1: The Sun Chief said,
SUN
CHIEF: How can this be?
NARRATOR
4: He went to the girls who fetched water.
SUN
CHIEF: (holds out letter) Did you bring this letter?
NARRATOR
4: The girls said,
GIRLS: (stop
working) We did not. (start working again)
NARRATOR
2: He went to his wife, the Moon Lady, and read it to her.
SUN
CHIEF: What should we do?
NARRATOR
2: The Moon Lady said,
MOON
LADY: Don’t ask me! Ask your daughter!
NARRATOR
5: He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said,
SKY
MAIDEN: Let us see if he can bring a wedding gift.
NARRATOR
3: So the Sun Chief wrote a letter and set it on the bench. Then he
went away.
NARRATOR
1: Frog came out and put the letter in his mouth. Then he climbed
into an empty jug.
NARRATOR
4: The next day, the girls took the jugs and climbed down to earth,
singing their song.
GIRLS: (come
singing)
Good day to
you, my sister.
Good day to you.
NARRATOR
2: They lowered their jugs into the well, and Frog jumped out.
NARRATOR
5: Then the girls went back to Heaven.
NARRATOR
3: Frog took the letter to Kimana, and Kimana read it.
KIMANA: “You
may marry my daughter if you bring a purse of money.”
NARRATOR
3: Kimana said,
KIMANA: This
I cannot do.
FROG: Then
I will bring it for you.
NARRATOR
3: Kimana laughed.
KIMANA: (laughs)
You took a letter to Heaven. But can you bring a purse of money?
FROG: Whatever
it is, I can do it. But only if I try.
NARRATOR
1: Kimana gave Frog a purse of money. Frog took hold of it with his
mouth and carried it to the well. He climbed in and waited.
NARRATOR
4: The girls from Heaven came to the well.
GIRLS: (come
singing)
Good day to
you, my sister.
Good day to you.
NARRATOR
2: Frog got into one of the jugs.
NARRATOR
5: The girls returned to Heaven and left him in the room.
NARRATOR
3: Frog set the money on the bench. Then he hid.
NARRATOR
1: The Sun Chief came and found the purse.
SUN
CHIEF: How can this be?
NARRATOR
4: He went to the girls.
SUN
CHIEF: (holds out purse) Did you bring this money?
GIRLS: (stop
working) We did not. (start working again)
NARRATOR
2: He went to his wife. The Moon Lady said,
MOON
LADY: Don’t ask me! Ask your daughter!
NARRATOR
5: He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said,
SKY
MAIDEN: Let us see if he can come fetch me.
NARRATOR
3: So the Sun Chief wrote a letter and left it on the bench.
NARRATOR
1: Frog put the letter in his mouth.
NARRATOR
4: He climbed into an empty jug.
NARRATOR
2: The next day, the girls carried him to earth.
GIRLS: (come
singing)
Good day to
you, my sister.
Good day to you.
NARRATOR
5: He jumped back into the well, and the girls went back to Heaven.
NARRATOR
3: Frog brought the letter to Kimana, and Kimana read it.
KIMANA: (reading)
“You may marry my daughter if you come and fetch her.”
NARRATOR
3: Kimana said,
KIMANA: This
I cannot do.
FROG: Then
I will fetch her for you.
NARRATOR
3: Kimana laughed.
KIMANA: (laughs)
You took a letter to Heaven. You brought a purse of money. But can you fetch a
bride?
FROG: Whatever
it is, I can do it. But only if I try.
NARRATOR
1: Frog climbed back into the well.
NARRATOR
4: The girls came with their jugs.
GIRLS: (come
singing)
Good day to
you, my sister.
Good day to you.
NARRATOR
2: They carried him to Heaven.
NARRATOR
5: Frog jumped out. He spit in all the jugs of water.
FROG: (spits
in jars) Ptui. Ptui. Ptui.
NARRATOR
3: Then he hid in an empty jug.
NARRATOR
1: The people of the house came and drank the water.
NARRATOR
4: They all got sick.
SUN CHIEF,
MOON LADY, SKY MAIDEN, GIRLS, OTHER SKY PEOPLE: (come and dip cup
in water, drink, get sick)
NARRATOR
2: The Sun Chief called for the spirit doctor. The doctor told him,
DOCTOR: You
promised your daughter to a man of earth, but she has not gone. He has sent an
evil spirit with a sickness. The evil spirit is in the shape of . . .
a frog!
NARRATOR
5: The Sun Chief went to his wife. The Moon Lady said,
MOON
LADY: Don’t ask me! Ask your daughter!
NARRATOR
3: He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said,
SKY MAIDEN: I
will go.
NARRATOR
1: The next day, the Sky Maiden went with the girls down to the
well.
GIRLS: (come
singing) Good day to you, my sister.
Good day to you.
NARRATOR
4: The girls filled their jugs, and Frog jumped out. Then the girls
left the Sky Maiden and went home.
NARRATOR
2: Frog jumped out of the well.
FROG: I
will lead you to your husband.
NARRATOR
2: The Sky Maiden laughed.
SKY
MAIDEN: (laughs) Can a frog lead a woman?
FROG: I
took a letter to Heaven. I brought a purse of money. I fetched a bride.
Whatever it was, I could do it. But only since I tried.
SKY
MAIDEN: Then it is you I will marry!
NARRATOR
5: She took Frog back to Heaven and married him.
NARRATOR
3: They lived on and on.
NARRATOR
1: And Kimana is still waiting for his bride.
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