5th Grade Reading List

5th Grade Reading List

5th graders will choose 2 from this list

• Alice and Wonderland by Lewis Caroll 
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hadgson Burnett
• The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Singer
• M.C. Higgins by Virginia Hamilton
• The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Pop Art Portraits

Here are some of the portraits 

news week2

student council meetings

All student council meetings will be on thursday of each week so don't be late it will be at 11:44. By the way we thank you for your ideas for the halloween party.

Scholastic

Make sure to visit the Scholastic website and order books! For every book we order online our class receives money and in turn we'll get more books, win win. A special thanks to Lily DeYoung and Scarlett Saile for heading up this project. Here is our classroom website for Scholastic https://orders.scholastic.com/LGRT6

Student Council

Student Council members will be meeting this Thursday at 11:44 in Mrs. Shelton's room.

News

A little late, but we got it put together.

Week 4 Outline

Week 4 Brief Outline:

•         Language Arts: All grades will be working in the computer lab this week. We will be  refreshing or enhancing our typing skills, this is important not only because we will be doing a lot of writing in our classroom, but it is also a life skill.  We will also start our next writing project http://www.adventurewrite.com/kids/contest.  The 7th and 8th graders will check out their next book from the classroom library on Monday.
• Art- We will continue with our Pop Art Portraits and when the students have completed them we will create a styxz animation http://www.stykz.net/ (I just found this website and it seems to be a great mix of art and technology) 
• Publications- Well, we're getting there, slowly but surely. Last week the 7th and 8th graders photographed individual classes, the whole school, and a lot of candid photos. This week they will edit the pictures and at some point the students will be able to purchase them (this is still in the works)

School Pictures

HERE ARE A FEW PICTURES TAKEN BY THE PUBLICATIONS CLASS

Homework:Week 3

Well, better late than never.

Language Arts- 
Final Draft of the newspaper article was due Wednesday
Final Draft of the persuasive speech is due Friday
7th/8th graders- We completed The Giver Wednesday
5th/6th graders- We should complete Julie's Wolf Pack hopefully by next Friday

Art-
We will be working on our Pop Art Portraits

Publications- 
The news crew is hoping to have the news posted this Friday
Yearbook crew is taking class pictures. Parents and students can buy them(not sure on the cost yet)
Newspaper crew is working on their articles for the paper

Pictures

Here Are Some Pictures That Students Have Taken Over the Last Couple Weeks

 Tanner helping out a student (what a nice guy)

 Jaydon, working hard on his newspaper article

 Dustin, working on his pop art portrait (he's working on his beard)

 Nash, just starting his portrait

 Lily is running for Vice President!

 Penelope is running for Treasurer!

 Lily and Scarlett (running for Treasurer) are putting up their campaign flyers

Marshall, rehearsing the weather (looks like a nice day)

Grade Level Reading List

Of the 30 books you will be reading this year, choose two from the reading list provided below.

8th- Fallen Angels
        The Good Earth
       The Light in the Forest
        Malcolm X By Any Means Necessary
       Red Scarf Girl http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides-redscarf.html
       Scorpions
       Shadow of the Red Moon
       Slam
        Somewhere in the Darkness
        Tangerine  http://www.mugglenet.com/booktrolley/eb-tangerine.shtml
        Walkabout

7th- Brian'sWinter
        Dogsong
       The Door in the Wall
       Jip His Story
       The Midwife's  Apprentice
       The Moorchild  http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~elbond/moor.htm
        Rifles for Watie
       The River
        Seedfolks
        Sentries
         Tracker
        Walk Two Moons  http://www.sharoncreech.com/novels/06.asp
         Woodsong

6th- Alice in Wonderland
       Call it Courage  http://books.simonandschuster.com/Call-It-Courage/Armstrong-Sperry  /9780027860306
       A Christmas Carol
       The Enormous Egg
      From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
      Jennifer Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
      Maniac Magee
      The Phantom Tollbooth  http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/apr/21/michael-chabon-phantom-tollbooth-wonder-words/
       Rabbit Hill
       Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
       Twenty and Ten
       The View from Saturday
        Waiting for Anya
        The Wizard of Oz
       Wringer
       A Wrinkle in Time
5th- coming soon

Reading Log

I have attached the link for our classroom Reading Log. The blog is where you comment on the books you're reading, as well as comment on other students' posts.  http://kidblog.org/MrsSheltonsClass-2/