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Video: Chrysanthemum  and the Power of Names

The Book Boys and Scholastic Book Clubs Summer Interns Welcome Your Students Back to School

by Traci Swain

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To celebrate back to school, the Book Boys get schooled…in names! Just like the titular star of Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, Allister, Elliott, and Max learn that every name has its own special meaning.

 

School is back in session, which means it’s time to put new names to new faces. And after discovering the meaning behind Chrysanthemum’s name, the Book Boys are super curious to find out more about other people’s names too.

 

If only they had access to a…hmmm…a what? 

 

Introducing Max and Elliott’s Big Red Magic Guest Simulator Portal Button—the BRMGSPB or Big Red Button for short. Soon all the interns zap! into the guys’ book cave to share the awesome significance of their own names.

 

Play this video for your students to help kick off a fun back-to-school icebreaker. It will help launch a class discussion about:

 

• The importance of taking the time to learn how to pronounce a name correctly.

• Fascinating meanings behind a name—personal and cultural!

 

Then just like the guys and their friends from Scholastic, your students can share what their name means to them!

 

Teachers, you can participate too! Share how cool your name is on social media using the hashtag #ScholasticBookClubs.

Meet the Book Boys: Allister, Elliott, and Max

These three guys from different departments at Scholastic Book Clubs formed a book group. Each week, they choose a new book to read together. Then they meet, discuss, and create fun and entertaining videos to help kids discover titles offered by Scholastic Book Clubs.

 

While the Book Boys come from diverse backgrounds and were definitely different growing up, they all have one thing in common: they really want to get kids excited about books and reading.

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Chrysanthemum

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A Note from Judy

Dragons are huge fans of tacos—as long as they don’t have one secret, spicy ingredient! The Book of the Week is the laugh-out-loud, fun-to-read-together picture book Dragons Love Tacos, written by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri!

Dance to an original song with the Book Boys; discover the many ways that one first grade teacher uses Dragons Love Tacos with her students in Book Talks; read an exclusive interview with Adam Rubin in Behind the Scenes; and download a free printable “Dragons Love My Tacos!” recipe activity in Cooked Up from a Book that also helps students practice sequencing.

We hope that your younger readers have a blast with Dragons Love Tacos—and remember: no salsa!

Judy Newman

President and Reader in Chief
Scholastic Book Clubs

Book of the Week

Dragons Love Tacos

by Adam Rubin, illustrated
by Daniel Salmieri
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