Don your green clothes, play in the "green" grass (although, it's not quite green yet here in upstate New York) and eat some green food (How many green things can you eat today?).
I bet somewhere someone is baking GREEN doughnuts today. I cannot resist doughnuts and Laurie Keller, creator of ARNIE the DOUGHNUT among many other fabulous books (i.e., Scrambled States of America, Do Unto Otters), is a fave of mine. Could it be the doughnut connection? In 2018, she and I sat next to each other at the Caldecott-Newbery banquet and have been buds ever since. I am determined to get her to Castleton one day 🤞.
There's a great coloring sheet on Laurie's website here.
Can you imagine what it felt to find out you were demoted from planet status? Find out in Adam Rex and Laurie Keller's book, Pluto Gets the Call. Put it on hold through Sora/Overdrive.
Here is a read aloud of ARNIE for you to enjoy today:
Baking is a great activity we can all do together and think of the curriculum connections! Math, ELA, Science! The Doughnut Fix by Jessie Janowitz is one of my favorite doughnut chapter books. On her website she has a recipe for "Life-Changing Chocolate Cream Doughnuts." OOOH! Please share pictures if you do leap into this activity!
I found this DOUGHNUT Tic-Tac-Toe game on our database, Kids InfoBits.
Kids InfoBits - Document - Tic-Tac-Doughnut: A Game for 2 Players
SPEAKING of ILLUSTRATORS (We were, right?)
Maybe you heard, maybe you didn't, but some authors and illustrators are posting daily live (or to watch later) videos. This is so wonderful and generous of them.Who doesn't LOVE Mo Willems? He is hosting a Lunch Doodle hangout every day at 1PM. You can also find things to do on Mo's website. Here is his introduction video:
ALSO, you can watch Jarrett Krosoczka, author and illustrator of one of our favorite graphic novel series, The Lunch Lady (and other books!). Subscribe to his channel and you can get a reminder to watch him live EVERY DAY at 2PM. You can even set a reminder to yourself. Here is the first episode from yesterday:
Did you know that Jarrett visited CES about seven years ago? I think it's time for him to return, don't you? 😍
Stay healthy, happy and positive! xo Ms. Rattner
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