additional titles:

Over in Australia
Going Home
Over in the Arctic
Going Around the Sun
Over in the Jungle
Over in the Ocean
Marsh Morning

website: www.MarianneBerkes.com
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video: CSLP 2010 Interactive Books

Marianne Berkes

award-winning author

Hobe Sound, FL USA


marianne berkes

SCHOOL VISITS: Pre-K - 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.


Year(s) of participation: 2011, 2013





A4ED school visit photos & blurbs:


2013 at PINE JOG ELEMENTARY in West Palm Beach, FL.


MARIANNE CELEBRATES EARTH DAY AT PINE JOG

marianne at Pine Jog

I loved visiting this school, sharing my nature awareness books with Grades K-4 (600 kids in all). The first graders sang my "Over in the Forest" book as I showed the illustrations on a big screen to Grades K-2, and the older grades performed a Readers Theater using my animal migration book, "Going Home!" What a thrill to see how they used my interactive books connecting them to nature and celebrating our earth!


Pine Jog Elementary is a wonderful school that has an environmental and science focus, built to green building standards. They have the most amazing gardens, including a beautiful butterfly garden where the photo attached was taken with Frances Fry, the reading coach who arranged my visit. I am holding a bag of amazing veggies and herbs that they gave me from their garden, and Frances is holding my latest book, What's in the Garden?


marianne at Pine Jog
photos of the kids giving my donation to Pine Jog Environmental Center

The school decided to give my donation to the Pine Jog Environmental Center with which they are affiliated. A non-profit organization, it preserves 135 acres of natural Florida habitat. Their mission is to "develop, provide and model education programs which foster an awareness and appreciation of the natural world and instill a sense of stewardship toward the Earth and all its inhabitants." A perfect choice, I think, for the A4ED collaboration.


2011 at JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Jupiter, FL


MARIANNE BERKES INSPIRES KIDS AT JUPITER FARMS

marianne and kids

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.


kids in masks

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.