Get Set up
1. Navigate to the CPS Virtual Library
2. Choose Guest to sign-in. Use cps as the username and cps as the password
3. Open this week's eBook "Last Stop on Market Street" in English. For Spanish, view the Read Aloud video below.
Day 1
Read Alouds
Day 2
Finding Beauty
At the end of the story, CJ notices that his Nana finds the “beautiful in places that he never thought to look” as they travel through their community. The next time you are out in your community with your child, invite your child to observe the places and world around you. Where can you find beauty in your own community, perhaps in places that you never thought to look? If you are able, take pictures of the places that you and your child identify. When you arrive back home, invite your child to record what they found through drawing and writing, using the pictures to remind them.
Supplies needed:
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Blank Paper
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Writing, Drawing, and/or Painting Materials (Crayons, Markers, Colored Pencils, Paint, Paintbrushes)
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Optional: device to take pictures
Finding Beauty English
Finding Beauty Spanish
Day 3
Mental Map of your Community
In the story, CJ and his Nana travel through their community, from their church, to the bus stop, to the soup kitchen. Invite your child to think about the places in your community that you visit often. Provide your child with drawing and writing materials, and encourage them to draw a map of the places in your community that are special to you and your family. Support your child to illustrate and label each place with phonetic spelling.
Supplies needed:
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Blank Paper
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Writing, Drawing, and/or Painting Materials (Crayons, Markers, Colored Pencils, Paint, Paintbrushes)
Day 4
Letters to Your Community
Throughout the story, CJ and his Nana encounter many unique people in their neighborhood, including CJ’s friend Colby, a blind man, two boys with iPods, and a man with a guitar. Ask your child to remember any people that you see often in your own community, such as a grocery store clerk, a bus driver, or a mail carrier. Invite your child to draw portraits of each of these people, and to write each person a short note to say thank you for their contribution to your community. If you feel comfortable and if it is safe to do so, you and your child might even choose to deliver these notes the next time you are out!
Supplies needed:
- Blank Paper
- Writing, Drawing, and/or Painting Materials (Crayons, Markers, Colored Pencils, Paint, Paintbrushes)
Day 5
Make Your Own Chalk Paint!
On their bus ride, CJ and his Nana sit across from a man playing the guitar, and close their eyes to experience the music. With his eyes closed, CJ imagines “sunset colors swirling over crashing waves” and “butterflies dancing in the light of the moon” and thinks the music feels like magic.
Put on some of your family’s favorite music or perhaps some guitar music, like CJ and his Nana listened to on the bus. Invite your child to close their eyes and feel the emotion of the music. While they are listening, what do they imagine? What colors do they see? What do they feel? Encourage your child to use art to express their emotions and their imagingings. Additionally, If you feel comfortable, visit a local street performer, listen and dance to the music. Share your appreciation for their artform by telling the performer how their music makes you feel.
Supplies needed:
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Blank Paper
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Writing, Drawing, and/or Painting Materials (Crayons, Markers, Colored Pencils, Paint, Paintbrushes)
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Device to play music
Music as Muse English
Music as Muse Spanish
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