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BLAST Elementary Thematic Program
Water - Make A Splash!
(Summer Reading 2010)
Kindergarten - 2nd grade books
This year's summer reading theme was Make A Splash @ Your Library! We used a variety of books about water and different creatures that live in lakes, ponds, and oceans! Some are informational and some are just for fun, but the kids had a blast with all of them!
Fiction and Informational Books:
Diesen, Deborah
The Pout-Pout Fish
The pout-pout fish believes he only knows how to frown, even though many of his friends suggest ways to change his expression, until one day a fish comes along that shows him otherwise.
French, Vivian
Growing Frogs
A mother and child watch as tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.
Wilson, Karma
A Frog in the Bog
A frog in the bog grown larger and larger as he eats more and more bugs, until he attracts the attention of an alligator who puts and end to his eating.
George, Lindsay Barrett
Around the Pond: Who's Been There?
While picking blueberries on a warm summer afternoon, Cammy and her brother see signs of unseen animals and their activities including footprints, a dam, and a floating feather.
Freymann, Saxton
One Lonely Sea Horse
One lonely sea horse learns that she has a lot of friends - friends she can really "count" on.
Karas, G. Brian
Atlantic
Explore what the Atlantic Ocean is, how far it stretches, how the moon affects it, and other characteristics as described by the ocean itself.
Wallace, Karen
Imagine You Are a Crocodile
A crocodile snaps her jaws trying to catch lunch, rest in the sun, and carries her babies down to the water, in a description of the big reptiles and their way of life.
Geist, Ken
The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark
In this spoof of the three little pigs, Mama tells her three little fish that it's time to seek their fortunes. Jim builds a house of seaweed and Tim builds a house of sand, but it's up to Kim to find the house that will stop the big bad shark's munching and crunching.
Return to the top3rd - 5th Grade Books
This year's summer reading theme was Make A Splash @ Your Library! We used a variety of books about water and different creatures that live in lakes, ponds, and oceans! Some are informational and some are just for fun, but the kids had a blast with all of them!
Fiction and Informational Books:
Florian, Douglas
In the Swim: Poems and Paintings
A collection of humorous poems about such underwater creatures as the starfish, piranha, and clam.
Cyrus, Kurt
Hotel Deep: Light Verse from Dark Water
Twenty-one poems tell the story of a lone sardine sparated from his school within a huge coral reef and the creatures he meets as he searches for the way back.
Bishop, Nic
Frogs
Nic Bishop's photographs show all different kinds of frogs, big ones, very tiny ones, frogs with beautiful colors of skin, and one frog you can see inside of.
Moffett, Mark W.
Face to Face with Frogs
Barnett, Mac
Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem
When Billy Twitters' mother follows through on her threat to buy him a blue whale if he refuses to obey, he finds himself the owner of an enormous pet that he must take with him eveywhere, which does not make him popular at school.
