If You’re Ready for a Story
If you’re ready for a story, take a seat
If you’re ready for a story, take a seat
Clap your hands and stomp your feet
Make your hands all nice and neat
If you’re ready for a story, take a seat
Jayylen's Juneteenth Surprise
by Lavaille Lavette (author) & David Wilkerson (illustrator), published by Golden Books (2023)
What is the importance of Juneteenth?1
Juneteenth celebrates June 19, 1865, a day when Union troops of the U.S. Civil War reached Galveston, Texas and announced the war's end. This event marked the day that slaves were free. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration that acknowledges the end of slavery in the United States.
Put Your Wiggles in a Bag
Tune: “If happy and you know it”
Put your wiggles in the bag, in the bag,
Put your wiggles in the bag, in the bag,
Put your wiggles in the bag,
Where they can zig and they can zag,
Put your wiggles in the bag, in the bag!
Juneteenth
by Van G. Garrett (author), Reginald C. Adams and Samson Bimbo Adenugba (illustrators), published by Versify (2023)
The Flags1
Pan-African Flag
The Juneteenth Flag
We Wiggle and Wiggle and Stop
We wiggle and wiggle and stop
We wiggle and wiggle and stop
We wiggle and wiggle and wiggle and wiggle
and wiggle and wiggle and stop
We jump…
We clap…
Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington
by Michael G. Long (Author), Bea Jackson (Illustrator), published by little bee books (2023)
Goodbye Song
We wave goodbye like this!
We wave goodbye like this!
We clap our hands for all our friends!
We wave goodbye like this!
Thank you
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