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    Adventures Across Time
    Adventures Across Time
    Adventures Across Time
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    Adventures Across Time

    By Mrs. River's Second Grade Class

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    Are you ready for a magical journey? Join Mrs. Rivers second graders and Izzy Lightbulb as they embark on adventures to visit foreign lands and meet famous leaders throughout history!

    Students, children, moms, dads, teachers, and history fanatics you will love Adventures Across Time!
    The second grade authors of this book invite you to join them on their adventures to faraway lands such as Mexico, France, Italy, and even some journeys in their very own country, America!
    Learn about talented artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, and crazy scientists like Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison. Read about the struggles that our human rights activists such Martin Luther King Jr. endured. Meet some of the courageous women like Elizabeth Blackwell, Rachel Carson, and Sally Ride, who achieved things that no women had ever achieved before! This book you are holding can open doors and teach you all about historys leaders, the fun way!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJan 8, 2016
    ISBN9781514436714
    Adventures Across Time
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    Mrs. River's Second Grade Class

    Mrs. Rivers has been teaching for three years. She taught for two years in South LA, and is now teaching in Burbank, at the school she attended as a child. She lives in Burbank with her husband and two chihuahuas, Cupcake and Himsis. She is expecting their first baby later this year. Mrs. Rivers loves being silly with her second graders, making crafts, eating sushi, and publishing books with her students.

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      Book preview

      Adventures Across Time - Mrs. River's Second Grade Class

      Copyright © 2016 by Toluca Rivers. 614355

      ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5144-3670-7

                   EBook       978-1-5144-3671-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner..

      Rev. date: 01/12/2016

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      Contents

      Isabel meets Elizabeth Blackwell

      Gavin meets Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat Discovery

      Yalil meets The Beatles

      Molly meets Steve Jobs iPhones

      Bobby meets Abraham Lincoln

      Andrew meets Galileo Galilei

      Milena meets Thomas Edison

      Leah meets Thomas Edison

      Maxwell meets Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

      Nathan meets Martin Luther King Jr.

      Alex meets Albert Einstein

      Luke meets Albert Einstein

      Ethan meets Leonardo Da Vinci

      Alexander meets Alexander the Great

      Danny meets Frida Kahlo

      Haylee meets Rachel Carson

      Nico meets Christopher Columbus

      Arsen meets Jackie Robinson The Time we Played a Dodger Game

      Isola meets Helen Keller

      Diana meets Amelia Earhart

      Angel meets Henry Ford

      Natalia meets Andy Warhol

      Valentina meets Andy Warhol

      Augustine meets Sally Ride

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      Dedication

      For Edison Elementary’s kind and inspiring teachers, wonderful administration and staff, and especially our principal, Mrs. Flosi.

      For Mrs. Reid, who helped us find library books for our researching.

      For my favorite CSUN teacher, my mentor, Professor Joan Baca.

      For all the children who read this book. We hope this inspires you to become adventurous leaders someday!

      A message from Mrs. Flosi

      I am so proud of the work all these second grade students did to find out about such important people in our world. They have demonstrated what great writers can do…..even in second grade! I am confident that many people will enjoy reading and learning from this superb book!

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      Meet our Class

      Mrs. Rivers’ second grade class has 24 bright, creative students who love to learn! In Mrs. Rivers’ class, everyone is always there for each other. Every week in class, they randomly select a new student to be their Big Cheese for the week. They love interviewing their Big Cheese every Friday, and then categorizing their responses into an adjective, verb, and noun column. They even have a special song that they sing to help them remember what nouns are! Then, every day until the next Friday, they write a biography about their Big Cheese,

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