Moreno Valley Author Visit: November 2023 Announcement
Archive: this November 2023 announcement includes materials from other school contexts. Offers and distribution references are historical; check current availability.
Bee Happy: Moreno Valley Author-Visit Announcement
Teachers Pay Teachers activities — click here
SUGGESTED READING GRADES FROM THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
- Baby I love You - finger puppet book - Kinder (goes with the Baby I love you song) it’s very quick and fun easy read for PreK-K
- Help & Give Back: Grades 1-2
- Bee-ing Happy: Grades 1st to 3rd
- The Thing I Do: grades 1-3
- Unicorn Jazz: grades 2-4
- Eye See You Choosing Kindness: Grades 3-5
- Ocean Animals for 4-5 graders cuz it has awesome haiku poem and ocean animal fun facts worksheets
*Suggested grades - some teachers use others plus or minus a grade level.
Be sure to check out the variety of songs for all our children's book series.
School Video & Learning Resources
- Where Do Good Ideas Come From: a historical video for classroom discussion (this link may no longer play), click here
- Behind the Scenes Journey of an author during the pandemic: click here
- Skip a Step digital journal for students, view journal
- More for students interested in leadership: click here
The original article included an acknowledgement of Teacher Pam Quevedo.
School-resource example: the certificate below is headed San Onofre School and dated February 7, 2023.
Eye See You Choosing Kindness: Story and Song
Author-Visit Program Examples
The program material described an in-person presentation by bilingual children’s author Lisa Caprelli, with books, stories, and songs.
The program outline included a short video from "Unicorn Jazz Presents The Thing I Do" children’s show, described in the original article as appearing on Amazon TV. Related Unicorn Jazz music videos are available on the current site. Other program ideas and resources included:
- The original outline mentioned advance book-order forms for Ceres Unified Schools.
- Reading, writing, and behind-the-scenes material from the Unicorn Jazz book series
- For reading and discussion, the Unicorn Jazz book one- storytime and the Unicorn Jazz Friendship song to get familiar with the characters and stories themes of friendship, belonging, kindness, social-emotional learning.
- Learning free activities and coloring resources for Unicorn Jazz
- View resources for THE THING I DO book
- Songs and music videos created by Lisa at UnicornJazz.com/songs
- A classroom question-and-answer session
- An educator’s guide with coloring pages and activities, linked here.
- SEL learning packet
- The original article also mentioned Unicorn Jazz & Zebracorn puppets on Etsy.
The original article shared the following episode links for teachers, with credit to the Unicorn Jazz team, writers, and directors: These historical Vimeo links may no longer play; explore current Unicorn Jazz music videos instead.
Thank you for your support of literacy, music and the arts!
MORE VIDEOS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, GREEN SCREEN AND INNOVATION
- The Thing I Do Song Created by Students and Adults - watch
- Dance and Sing With Me Music Video by children actors/singers -watch