- Hi friends.

Welcome.

I'm so excited to read this book with you today, and I wanna introduce my friend before we begin our reading and then our activity following our reading.

I'm so excited for that as well.

Here's my fellow friend.

My name is Genevieve.

Jenny is here because she's going to do an amazing activity after the book, and we're both excited to do both of these activities with you.

Are you ready?

Let's start reading.

The book for today is, "All that I am."

And it is written by M.H Clark and Illustrated by Laura Carlin.

Are you ready, Genevieve?

- Yeah.

When the night sky is high, like the feeling of stars, I look up at the face of the moon.

"What do you see?"

I ask, there where you are.

And the moon says, "Right now I see you."

I count the bright hundreds of waves on the sea as they crash and they rush to the shore.

And I let those waves touch their cold hands to my feet.

Roar, fade the wave.

So I roar.

Can you roar with us?

Roar.

- Roar.

[teacher laughs] And I look at the flowers that grow in the field as they turn their heads up to the sky.

So I turn my head too just to feel what they feel with the sun and the wind blowing by.

I am bright like you Moon and I shine in my way.

I am loud at the waves from his sand.

I can move like the flowers move every day, but this still isn't all that I am.

The tops of the evergreens speak with the clouds while their roots dig down, steady and deep.

I can reach the sky too.

So I lift my head proud with the earth below, holding my feet.

Hello.

Wow, what do you see, Genevieve?

- I make grandma's lights and foxes.

Santa piece.

- Yes.

- And.

- So you seem nice.

You see rabbits, fox.

- [Genevieve] Snail hoppers.

- [Teacher] Snail hoppers.

- [Genevieve] A snail flying.

- [Teacher] Wow, you said snail over there as well.

- [Genevieve] And a bunny outside and underground, and a dragonfly and a frog.

- [Teacher] A bunny, a dragonfly and a frog.

- Flowers, birds, a beetle, a butterfly, a grasshopper.

- Look at all these animals.

So all the raindrops are whispering, "Hush," as they fall and they land on the earth with a kiss.

I can touch the world too, even though I am small, like the rain.

What I am is a gift.

Then the storm with its flashes of light passes through and it opens the sky with a crack.

I am big just like that.

And I am powerful too.

So I clap when the thunderbolts clap.

[teacher and Genevieve claps] Look at that thunderbolt.

I am strong as the trees that stand ancient and wise.

I am giving and soft as the rain.

I am brilliant and huge as the blaze in the skies, but that still isn't all that I am.

The wide river, sparkles and rushes along through the rocks and hills to the sea.

I follow and sing an adventuring song.

We are brave, the wide river and me.

[indistinct] the butterfly.

- [indistinct] the butterfly.

The mountain lifts up its strong shoulders of stone and it stands for a very long time.

I am strong like that too, in a way on my own.

And my body's a mountain that's mine.

When the sun paints the sky pink and orange and blue.

[Genevieve bubbles] with light that is brilliant and clear.

I say, "I want to make the world beautiful too."

And the sun says, "That's why you are here."

- I want to [indistinct], so many birds, bird parties.

- It's a bird party.

So many birds.

- So many I insect.

- I am bold at the river that makes its own way.

I am huge as the high mountain peaks.

Like the sun, I bring color and light to the day.

But there's still more than that inside me.

There are wonders inside me that no one yet knows.

There is magic the world's never seen.

There are seeds for a future that grows as I grow.

There are so many things I will feed, and the sun and the stars and the trees and the land and the rain and the storm and the sea.

Love me here in this moment for all that I am and for all of the worlds within me.

The end.

So now we're gonna take this time, Genevieve actually had a wonderful idea.

She said that she wants to make a self-portrait.

And you know what?

I'm gonna make a self-portrait.

You can have any crayons, if you have markers, if you have a pencil and paper, feel free to use that to make a self-portrait of yourself.

Because if this book has taught us anything, it's that we have to be proud with all that we are.

So all that I am is many, many things that make me proud of myself.

So let's take this time to do a self-portrait.

- These paper are very small.

- And that's okay.

It could be any sheet.

So for example, I'm gonna do a self-portrait of my feet.

So here I have like an oval shape from my face.

And I'm going to take this time to also find maybe a black marker for my black hair.

You can do yours with anything that you can find around pond.

So if you find like a crayon, if you find a marker, a colored pencil, just a regular pencil, Jenny's doing a regular pencil over there so you can make a self-portrait of yourself with what you have around.

I know some portraits can get really, really interesting and really beautiful by having maybe, let's say different colors and even having different magazines or items that they can put together to represent all that you are.

So here I have a picture of myself.

What do you think, Genevieve?

- It's good.

- It's good?

- Yeah.

- Here's a picture of me.

And something else that I wanted to do, which is another activity that you can do as well with your family, with your friends.

You can also write a poem about all that you are.

So here I have my self portraits and I can also take this time to write what I am.

So here I'm gonna have I AM, and that could be a way that you can start your piece so you can write everything that you are.

So I am strong.

I am funny.

- Mommy.

- Yes.

- We might have to wait some.

[teacher laughs] - Yes, I am strong.

I am funny.

These are all the different things and ways that you can write something about yourself.

Let's look at what Genevieve made.

This is your self portrait, Genevieve?

That's her self portrait.

Thank you friends for joining us today.

Wish you a wonderful rest of your day.

Bye.

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