ClassX Video Lessons Youtube Channel Awnie's House ???? Kids Book Read Aloud: ORDINARY MARY’S EXTRAORDINARY DEED by Emily Pearson and Fumi Kosaka
Hello, my reading friends! I’m Ani, and I’m so glad you’re here to read with me. Today, we’re going to read a story about a girl named Mary who does something very special. Let’s find out what happens when Mary does a good deed in “Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed.” If you have the book, grab it and read along!
Mary was just an ordinary girl. She went to an ordinary school and lived in an ordinary house. But one day, something amazing happened. On her way home, she found some juicy blueberries in a bush. She picked them and left them in a big bowl on Mrs. Bishop’s porch.
Mrs. Bishop was so happy to find the berries that she baked blueberry muffins. She gave them to five people, including Billy, the paper boy. Billy was so happy that he delivered newspapers right to people’s doors instead of throwing them into bushes.
One of the people who got their newspaper was Mr. Mori. He was so cheerful that he helped five people with their heavy bags at the airport. One of those people was Mario, who then did something nice for five more people, including an old man named Joseph.
Joseph was so touched by Mario’s kindness that he helped a college girl named Sahar by giving her a new bag. Sahar was so happy that she made five people smile, including Sophia, who was feeling sad on a boat trip.
Sophia called her son, Dr. Tom, to cheer him up. Dr. Tom then gave balloons to five young patients at the hospital. One of those kids was Peter, who helped a teenager named Eric with his heavy bags.
Eric invited his sister Dai to learn how to skateboard, and Dai decided to help five people too. She and her brother bought a hot dog for a woman named Louise, who was homeless.
Louise found a wallet and returned it to its owner, Amara, who was so grateful that she offered Louise a job. Amara then gave a ticket to a woman named Kate, who bought a necklace for her niece, Mary.
Yes, it was the same Mary who started it all with her blueberries! Her one good deed spread kindness to millions of people. Imagine if everyone did just one good deed—how wonderful the world would be!
Before we go, let’s say hello to some of our reading friends: Isabella and Adeline in Las Casas, Tennessee; Quiki in Salt Lake City, Utah; Axel and Corey in South Texas; Samson in Oklahoma; Andre and Joaquin in Belleville, New Jersey; Melody May in Hamilton, Ohio; Garrett and Taylor in Boynton Beach, Florida; Ion in Lanzarote, Spain; Maggie, Sam, Katie, Gloria, and Audrey in Illinois; and Christian and Isaac Linnaman in Clarksville, Tennessee. Hello to all of you!
Thank you for reading with me today. I hope you enjoyed the story. See you next time!
Kindness Chain: Start a kindness chain in your classroom or at home. Each child can do a small good deed for someone else, like helping a friend with their homework or sharing a toy. After doing the good deed, they can pass a “kindness card” to the next person, encouraging them to do something nice for someone else. See how far the kindness can spread and discuss how it feels to be both the giver and receiver of kindness.
Blueberry Muffin Baking: Just like Mrs. Bishop in the story, try baking blueberry muffins with an adult. While baking, talk about how sharing the muffins with others can make them feel happy. After baking, share the muffins with family members or neighbors and observe their reactions. Discuss how a simple act of sharing can brighten someone’s day.
Kindness Journal: Create a “Kindness Journal” where each child can draw or write about a good deed they did or received each day for a week. At the end of the week, share the stories with the class or family. Discuss how these acts of kindness made them feel and how they can continue spreading kindness in their daily lives.
Here’s a sanitized version of the provided YouTube transcript:
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This book is being read with permission from Emily Pearson.
Hello, my reading friends! It’s Ani. I am so happy you came to read with me. If you like reading stories with me, be sure to subscribe and make sure to watch all the way through because I’m going to do some shout-outs at the end. Are you ready for a story?
Today, we’ll meet a girl named Mary who does a good deed. Let’s see what might result from that one good deed as we read “Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed.” If you have a copy, go get it so you can read along with me.
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“Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed,” written by Emily Pearson and illustrated by Fumi Kosaka.
Ordinary Mary was so very ordinary that you’d never guess she could change the world. This ordinary kid did. She changed the world.
One ordinary day, skipping on her way from her ordinary school to her ordinary house, she passed an ordinary vacant lot filled with ordinary bushes growing ordinary blue and juicy, luscious berries. Well, Ordinary Mary picked the ordinary berries and brought them in a big brown bowl to Mrs. Bishop’s porch.
What left berries in a big brown bowl on Mrs. Bishop’s porch? That sneaky kid! This made Mrs. Bishop very happy, so she baked a big batch of blueberry muffins and thought of five people who might have brought those beautiful berries, then secretly gave each a plate.
How great! Five people got a plate. One of those five was her paper boy, Billy Parker. When Billy saw his name on a note in the driveway on a plate, he quickly parked his bike and ate every crumb. Oh, yum! This made him so glad that the next five people got their papers on the porch and not in the bushes where he often threw them. In fact, they were handed right to them.
One of those five was Mr. Mori, who was so amazed that he smiled for ten hours on the airplane and then helped five different people who had heavy bags. He still smiled, and they did too. One of those five was Mario, whose cranky little boy, James, stopped crying when Mr. Mori played peek-a-boo with him until their ride came. When he waved goodbye, Mario exclaimed how strange it was that a stranger should be so kind.
The next day, when he was out shopping, he did something nice for five different people—five times without stopping. One of those five was Joseph, old and bent and gray, in front of him in line at the produce stand. When he said, “I guess I counted wrong; I don’t really need these oranges,” little James reached out to him with an orange from their basket. Mario put a coin in Joseph’s hand and said, “Here, take this. The oranges are on us.”
As Joseph shuffled to the bus, his heart was full, and his eyes were wet, and his hands did helpful things for the next five people he met. One of those five was Sahar, a college girl who was off to see the world. When her bag broke and her things fell all over the floor, she said, “Oh, what will I do?” Joseph said, “This is for you,” and he gave her a new bag woven with his own hands in red, purple, and green.
“Oh, thank you!” she said. “It’s the loveliest bag I’ve ever seen.” When Sahar left, she felt sunny as noon and just had to shine on five people soon. One of those five was Sophia, whom she met on a boat, looking like the world might end, looking like someone without a friend.
“What beautiful blue eyes you have,” Sahar said, “and they’re just the color of the flowers in your lovely dress.” “Yes,” said Sophia. “Oh, yes,” said Sahar, and a happy tear shed from Sophia’s eye. When the boat trip was through, Sophia called five people to make them happy too.
One of those five was Tom, her son, the doctor, who was having a very hard day. “I love you, Tom,” she said. “Well, how great to hear your voice,” he sighed. “I always need my mom.” Dr. Tom was so cheered up that on his next break, he bought a big bunch of bright balloons for five young patients and handed them out right then and there.
One of those five was Peter, a little boy who went home from the hospital that very day. Gratitude for the big bunch of bright balloons filled him and thrilled him and spilled out of him onto the next five people who came his way. One of those five was Eric, a teenage boy whose sacks and stuff were way too much. When one dropped on the sidewalk, Peter stopped his play and rushed right over, saying, “Super wheels to the rescue!”
Well, Eric, no longer stressed, was very impressed and made a mental note that very afternoon to help five people and do it soon. One of those five was Dai, his ten-year-old sister, who didn’t have many friends and was painfully shy. When Eric said, “Hey, sis, wanna come to the park and learn how to ride my skateboard?” she looked at him wide-eyed and serious and cried, “Sure!”
He said, “And because of her brother, Dai decided maybe she could be a friend to another five others.” One of those five was Louise, a homeless woman who lived under the trees. She could hardly believe her ears when she heard Dai say, “Daisy, may my brother and I buy you a hot dog and a drink at that stand over there.” Could it be true? Someone actually cared—cared enough to give her food and a smiley face ring that was practically new.
Louise was so pleased that she decided that even though she had nothing, she would find five others and give them something. One of those five was Amara, who lost her wallet in the park. Louise found it full of fives, tens, and twenties. Oh, what she could do with all that money! But she found Amara’s name and called her home, and over she came.
Amara was so impressed that Louise was honest when money was something she clearly needed. She offered her a job in her store and vowed to do something generous for five people or more. One of those five was Kate, a woman on vacation who wanted to see a show she’d heard was a sensation. “Oh no,” she said, “it’s sold out.” But I’m going home tomorrow,” and her face filled with sorrow.
Amara held out her ticket. “I live here,” she said. “I can go anytime.” Kate loved the show and was so touched that she thought buying five presents for five people back home would be really fun. One of those five presents was a little heart necklace for Mary, her niece, and you should have seen her eyes light up in surprise.
Mary? Yes, Ordinary Mary! Yes, Ordinary Mary’s extraordinary deed had come full circle, and on its way, it had changed the lives of every person living. You see, when Mrs. Bishop made muffins from Mary’s blueberries, not only the paper boy Billy Parker, but the other four people too made five people smile, and those five did too. After a while, in only 16 days, love was sent to every person everywhere.
Do you see the number one at the top of the page? That was Mary doing her one good deed, and every person after that did good deeds for five other people, and those people multiplied and multiplied and multiplied. Sixteen days later, 35,517,578 people were touched by love. Well, thirty billion is way more than all the people on the planet, so after everyone had a share and everyone knew that somebody cared, there was even love left over.
The world was changed, and thousands and millions and billions agreed it was all because one ordinary day, Ordinary Mary did a perfectly ordinary, stunningly earth-shaking, totally extraordinary deed. Mary was able to change the world with one good deed. Just imagine if we all did one good deed, how much better the world would be!
All right, let’s do some shout-outs today! They’re going out to Isabella and Adeline in Las Casas, Tennessee; Quiki in Salt Lake City, Utah; Axel and Corey in South Texas; Samson in Oklahoma; Andre and Joaquin in Belleville, New Jersey; Melody May in Hamilton, Ohio; Garrett and Taylor in Boynton Beach, Florida; Ion in Lanzarote, Spain; Maggie, Sam, Katie, Gloria, and Audrey in Illinois; as well as Christian and Isaac Linnaman in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Hello to all of you! I’m so happy that you’re all a part of my reading family. I hope you enjoyed our story today. See you next time!
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