Scroll down to see photos from Marianne's A4ED school visit.
2011 at JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Jupiter, Florida, USA. This A4ED visit is sponsored by Sylvan Learning Center in Jupiter.
Marianne Berkes, award winning author, Hobe Sound, FL
website: www.MarianneBerkes.com
email: mberkesbooks@aol.com
video clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiC4rkfmAos
SCHOOL VISITS: Pre-K to 5
In addition to reading my books, I often use songs and visual aids during my presentations. My programs are interactive. For example, after reading Marsh Music , the students become part of a frog orchestra to perform a frog symphony. With Going Home, the Mystery of Animal Migration, older grades can do a Readers' Theater. For Pre-K/K, I include puppets and other props. For Grades 1-5, I am happy to gear my program to a course of study, such as the oceans, rain forest, Arctic, etc.
Titles include:
 
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| Marsh Music | Going Home, the Mystery of Animal Migration | Over in the Jungle: a Rainforest Rhyme |
Also...
Seashells by the Seashore (Sharing Nature With Children Book)
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef
Going Around The Sun: Some Planetary Fun
Over in the Arctic: Where the Cold Winds Blow (Sharing Nature with Children Books)
Over in Australia: Amazing Animals Down Under
Marsh Morning
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2011 at JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Jupiter, FL
Read an article about Marianne's A4ED event.
It was so rewarding to see how the students were really into "authorsforearthday" and what they can do to help organizations like the five that they had on their ballots.
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a local organization in Jupiter, was the winner. The kids were so thrilled since many of them visit the sanctuary often since it is very close to their school. The principal, Mr. Thompson at Jupiter Farms announced the winner after I did my presentations, and Sylvan Learning was also present.
This event was connected with a project they were doing about oceans called LEAP. And one of my publishers (Dawn Publications) had an Earth Day contest, and Jupiter Farms Elementary where I presented the "authors for Earth Day" won third prize. So cool. The event was also in the local paper. The kids in the photo made masks of fish that live in ocean reefs after reading my book, "Over in the Ocean, in a Coral Reef" and learned what we can do to save the reef.
