The fourth grade handball team represented our grade with a tremendous effort at noon today. The final score was fifth grade 12 and fourth grade 11. They gave it their best and we are so proud of them!
The Winter Reading Challenge has begun. Please see my note below for the detail.
Report cards have come home today. Please sign and return after break. I have emphasized with the students to continue developing CORE. Perhaps, you could ask what CORE means to your child.
Thank you for your support. I look forward to starting fresh when we return. The second trimester is very important and I want the students to give their best effort!
Reading Challenge / Winter 2013-2014 Mr.
Jewell
Henry’s Freedom Box
The Bears of Hemlock Mountain
Tiger Rising
Sybil Ludington’s Midnight Ride
Tale of Despereaux
Katie John
Onion John
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon
Muggie Maggie
Ghost Soldier
The Chocolate Touch
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
The Cabin Faced West
Caddie Woodlawn
Ivy & Bean series
Narnia series
Amber Brown series
Being Teddy Roosevelt
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Frindle
How to Steal a Dog
StoneFox
The Family under the Bridge by Natalie
Savage Carlson
Meiko and the Fifth Treasure by Eleanor
Coerr
SHORTER STORIES:
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan
Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski
When I was Young in the Mountains by
Cynthia Rylant
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by
Judi Barrett
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily
Arnold McCully
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
The Houdini Box by Brian Selznick
Rip Van Winkle by Thomas Locker –
(Washington Irving)
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans
Christian Andersen
The House Gobbaleen by Lloyd
Alexander
Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
The Polar Express by Chris Van
Allsburg
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman
Fables by Arnold Lobel
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by
Leo Lionni
Any Blue Stem or Caudill you haven’t read (see library
for list)
Any Battle Book you would like to read (see Mr. Jewell
for list)
Seven books can by your choice.
