3 YEAR PROGRAM
YEAR 1 Dr. Seuss Celebration Superhero YEAR 2 Favorite Books into movies YEAR 3 Author Visit
Dr. Seuss Celebration
February - March 2015
Books of the week Tuesday
Thursday
Wednesday
Friday
I Can Read with my eyes shut
Green Eyes and Ham Day
Crazy Sock Day
Dr. Seuss Day
Superhero the science of superheros Week
Tuesday
Superman: Gravity Superman is always diving and flying around buildings. Explore gravity, space, and time as demonstrated in this video by How Stuff Works. You can play some fun gravity games or take your veryr own gravity picture and fly like Superman http://shows.howstuffworks.com/stuff-to-blow-your-mind/51310-stuff-to-blow-yourkids-mind-gravity-video.htm
Wednesday Storm: Lightning Invite the local weatherman to talk about lightning and safety in storms, and do fun experiments to recreate lightning with static electricity.
Thursday
MegaMan: Robotics Many superheroes battle robots or have robotic parts. To learn more about how circuits work, you can make Bristlebots using the kits or DIY directions. You can also have endless amounts of fun with squishy circuits. Kids will enjoy designing their own tin can robot. Find a near by robotics team and allow them to talk and demonstration with more advanced robots. If your community has a similar expert or other resources, invite them to present. The kids will love it!
Wrapped up in books
Programs Offered Live Owls Potion Making Class Ollivander’s Wand Shop Trivia and Sorting
Live Owls Bring two live owls, as well as sample skulls, feathers, and other owl-related information. Patrons got to learn all about barn owls and barred owls!
Potion Making Class Recreating the potions, we can use different juices, water and food coloring. felix felicis or polyjuice potion, and they also got to take them home. Have a teacher stationed to teach different potions that were in the book.
Ollivander’s Wand Shop If we were doing a teen event, I’d let them make these themselves. Hand made wands that a teacher, dressed up as Ollivander can help the student select the wand. In order to get a free one, student must answer one question from the book
Trivia and Sorting The train depot has a separate room where we held sorting and trivia. We decorated the room with “floating candles” which were flameless tea lights with paper taped round them, hung by fishing line. For trivia we had about 75 questions, and only a few of them stumped the audience. If answering a certain question right deteremined which House they would be in
AUTHOR VISIT
Dr. James Woodward As an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Jacksonville State University, composer in residence for the Etowah Youth Orchestra, and award winning author, Dr. James Woodward has written and performed in concerts, films, commissions, and musicals. He was the recipient of the 2012 Alabama Music Teachers Association Composer of the Year, the 2006 BMI Pete Carpenter Film Scoring Fellowship, the 2007 Kappa Kappa Psi Alpha Beta Chapter Commission Competition, a Meet the Composer Grant, and a Fellowship at the Virginia Arts Festival John Duffy Composers Institute. His concert works are published by Daehn Publications, GIA Publications, and Cimarron Music Press. Recordings of his works are available on Cedille Records, Mark Records, and Baer Tracks Music. http://www.amazon.com/When-Rebecca-Woogie-Came-Town/dp/B0032MY1KI http://www.jameswoodwardmusic.com/books.html
Read about Rebecca Woogie's adventure in the big city. When young pianist Rebecca enters a music competition, she hears music she has never heard before. The music inspires her to practice and practice until she's jamming on the keys for huge crowds of people.
References Authors and Illustrator Available for School and Library Visits | Scholastic Books. (n.d.). Retrieved rom http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/tradebooks/inviteanauthor.htm Wetta, M. (2015). Building Heroes: Program Ideas for Summer Reading 2015 | NoveList | EBSC host. Retrieved from https://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelist-special/building-heroes program-ideas-for-summer-reading-2015 Wetta, M. (2015, February 10). Library Program: Harry Potter Night | wrapped up in books. R trieved from http://wrappedupinbooks.org/2015/02/10/library-program-harry-potter-night/