Family Reading Rally 2000
Schedule of Events
 These offerings are subject to change.


Room 1, Upper Campus
9am, 10am, 12noon, 1pm
Appropriate for Pre-k through
2nd grade.
Gunniwolf (A German Folk tale) Listen to the story about the little girl who sings a wolf to sleep, and then make your own stick puppets to re-tell the 
story!(4 sessions)
Teachers Carol Calveri and Tina Walker from Palm Vista Elementary
11am, all ages Fun with Chemistry! Learn about great  science resources while participating in a science experiment. YVHS teachers Herb Crissmon and Ben Curry
Room 2, Upper Campus
9am, Appropriate for 1st thru 4thgrade What makes a Community Special? Using your local paper, find out about people who make a difference, while learning more about your neighborhood. Hi Desert Publishing Staff Members
10am- grades 6 through 12 Advertising Careers Learn about what are good characteristics of print ads, and then design your own! Hi Desert Publishing Staff Members
12noon -pre-k through 1st grade Alphabet Soup -  Bet you didn't know you could make soup with a newspaper! Come and find out how! Hi Desert Publishing Staff Members
1pm - 3rd grade though 6th Write Your Own Comic Strip - Be an author and a comedian by writing your own comics. Hi Desert Publishing Staff Members
Room 3, Upper Campus
9am, 10am - Appropriate for pre-k through 2nd grade Come Read and Dance! Listen to Barn Dance by Bill Martin and John Archambault...and then learn a square dance! Teachers Sheryl Pross and Doris Lawless from Condor Elementary
11am, 12noon - all ages Origami! Learn about Origami and make your own project. Teacher Oghwa Ladner from Condor Elementary School
1pm -all ages On Stage- Using literature as inspiration, become a character and act it out! All ages, even parents, can take on a new role! Ed Keesling, Yucca Valey Elementary School teacher and Arts Curriculum Chair Person for MUSD
Room 5, Upper Campus
Meet Author Michael Elsohn Ross
9am grades 4 thru adult
Author Workshop
Michael Elsohn Ross
10am All Ages - Book Signing
Books will be available for purchase
Michael Elsohn Ross
12noon Pre-school/Kindergarten presentation Michael Elsohn Ross
1pm Grades 1 
thru 3 Presentation
Michael Elsohn Ross
Room 6, Upper Campus
9am,10am, 11am,1pm - all ages. Wildflowers! Learn about wildflowers, write and read about them, and even take one apart in this hands on workshop  Joshua Tree National Park Rangers
Room 8, Upper Campus
9am, pre-k thru 2nd grade A Home for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle is the inspiration for this session, which includes a craft activity Suzette Whitfield
10am, 11am - 1st through 4th grade An Indian Prayer - Make your own landscape book and listen to Brother Eagle, Sister Sky  by Susan Jeffers Teacher Patricia Morvin from Yucca Mesa Charter School
12noon, 1pm -pre-k through 3rd grade Making Books with Children - make your own little books that you  can make at home in this hands-on  workshop Teachers Martha Snider from Twentynine Palms Elementary, and Kiela Snider-Bonelli from Joshua Tree Elementary
Room 9
Hear Local Celebs Read
9am Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Day Pat Brown Dempsey, MUSD Superintendent 
9:30 The Forest Has Eyes, by Bev Dolittle Jess Allred, Hi Desert Publishing
10am Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?, by Dr. Seuss Mayor Jim Bagley
11am Oh, the Places You Can Go, by Dr. Seuss General Stanley, MCAGCC
11:30am "The Talking Totem Pole" by
Lurline Bowles Mayol
Marketer Owen Gillick
12:30pm The Three Little Javalinas Duane Hoover, owner KDHI/KQYN radio
1:00pm The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, by Farley Mowat Phil Fultz, board member, CMC
1:30pm Madeline and the Bad Hat by Ludwig Bemelmens Barbara Jorgensen, Administrative Secretary, Town of Yucca Valley
Room 11
Dr. Seuss Room
9am -2pm - all day, all ages Meet the Cat in the Hat! Books and activities centered around Dr. Seuss. 
 
One Page at a Time Bookshop owners - teachers Eric and Norma Luff
Phase 2 Quad Area
Time
Description
Group
9am-9:45 Stone Soup, a play Mrs. Anderson's K and 1st Graders from Yucca Mesa Charter School
10am Readers are Leaders  Ronald McDonald
11am Readers are Leaders Ronald McDonald
11:30am and12:00pm Songs Twentynine Palms Elementary Chorus, led by Mrs. Heyl
1pm-1:45 A Pirate's Funeral (Tom Sawyer), a play Mrs. Seacat's 6th Graders from Friendly Hills Elementary School
2pm Write What's RIght  MTA and Hi Desert Publishing Awards to Essay Winners

 

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