And, of course, AIMS Testing is just around the corner, too.
Needless to say (but I'm going to say it anyway): it's going to be a busy, busy final trimester here in fifth grade!
If you're interested in getting a head-start on things, here are a few things you can do:
- Keep looking at the newspaper during the break. Use the Daily Sun's excellent website, or find another source of news that you can use. Newscasts will require you to be on-your-game like never before when it comes to your knowledge of Current Events.
- Be thinking about new subjects for your next Biography Project. For Project #3 it will be your task to find a candidate for the Wall Of Greatness and persuade us to vote for them... it's not too early to start looking around for a subject.
- Read! Read! Read! Battle Of The Books is an intense competition between teams. It will take the place of the Book Report project this term. We'll all be reading tons of great kid's literature to prepare for The Battle. Want to get started? Awesome! You can't go wrong by finding and reading some of the titles we'll be using for our first round (each book's average reading level is in parentheses):
- Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli (5.4)
- Holes - Louis Sachar (5.2)
- Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (5.1)
- Sing Down The Moon - Scott O'Dell (6.3)
- Little House In The Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder (4.2)
- Danny, The Champion Of The World - Roald Dahl (6.2)
- Number The Stars - Lois Lowry (5.0)
- Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes - Eleanor Coerr (4.7)
- The Double Life Of Pocahontas - Jean Fritz (5.0)
- Hatchet - Gary Paulsen (6.3)
- Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt (5.9)
- The Mouse And The Motorcycle - Beverly Cleary (5.6)
