5th Grade Book Club

Our 5th grade book club met over lunchtime today. We just finished reading Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. We all agreed that we liked it so much better than our last book. We are just starting our sixth book for the year, The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn.

Operation Yes

Author: Sara Holmes

Call Number: F HOL

In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.

***Note: Our 5th grade book club just finished reading this book. We are disappointed to announce that we did not like it. As a whole we were confused by the writing, uninterested in the plot, and let down by the book in general. We thoroughly disagree with Booklist which gave the book a starred review. For us, Operation Yes was a definite "NO".

Fifth Grade Book Club

Our fifth grade book club met for the first time yesterday. It was a lot of fun! We have seven student members, plus Mrs. Howeth and me. The students were excited to find out what our first book to read together would be. The answer: The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman!

Bluebonnet Book Club

Our Bluebonnet Book Club met for the first time this morning. If you signed up to join the club, don't forget to be here early on October 21 and 28, and November 4 and 18. Today we listened to The Uglified Ducky by Willy Claflin. Which one will we read next week? You'll have to come to find out!

Fifth Grade Booktalks

I had four brave fifth grade boys volunteer to be the first to try something new. They chose a book that they would like to recommend to other students, and practiced speaking about the book. Then we used our new IPOD's with video to record them doing their book talks. I think this will be a lot of fun to use in the future. Thank you to Tre', Hakeem, Isaiah, and Raj from the fifth grade book club that were our first to give video book talks to share.

each little bird that sings

Author: Deborah Wiles
Call Number: F WIL

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.

Book Club Fun

We have fun in Book Club! Check out the cheese in Julianne's calzone!

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

Author: Eric Berlin

Call Number: F BER

Winston Breen loves solving puzzles; and when his sister uncovers a twenty-five-year-old scavenger hunt--which leads to a ring worth thousands of dollars--he and his family jump at the opportunity to solve it.

Taylor Book Club

The Taylor Book Club just finished our first novel, The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman. All students agreed it turned out to be a really good book after what some felt was a confusing/slow start. We meet on Mondays during fifth grade lunch to discuss the book we're reading. The club consists of sixteen fifth graders who signed up at the beginning of the year.

Taylor Book Club

The Taylor Book Club met for the first time today. Our book club has sixteen fifth grade members. Students received the first book that we are going to read together. We will meet weekly to discuss the books that we are reading together. Our meetings take place in the library during fifth grade lunch and students eat in the library while we talk. How fun is that!!