Wow...the things you find on the internet! I have been doing lots of "blog" reading this summer. There are so many ideas out there that others are willing to share. I've been participating in different chats dealing with reading and fifth graders. One of the cool things that I discovered was a group of videos about books. They are kinda like a sales pitch for different books. This site is put on by Scholastic. If kids are looking for an idea of what to read next, these book commercials might be a good place to start. These books are for all levels, so the kids would have to weed through the "little kid" books to find the one appropriate for them. Some of the videos that would be good for fifth graders to check out would be...39 clues, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Deep Dark and Dangerous, Maybird, Percy Jackson...and others! To access these videos, follow the steps below!
Click here first to open the Scholastic web page
Then click on Exploring books and flip through the videos to find books that might interest you!
There is also a place to click to watch author interviews. These are also pretty cool!
Keep reading and having a great summer! June is nearly over!
Mrs. Haugen
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Summer post #3: fun and games
I hope all of your are enjoying your summer and reading like crazy. I know I have been doing quite a bit of reading. I finished the series on the "Shadow Children" and am going to start the Hunger Games next. I have also been working on some fun science activities and units for next year. I haven't taught science in the past, so this will be a new, fun experience for me! I will also be teaching reading/language arts as I have for the last 6 years. I have also been working on my hobbies of gardening and FISHING! I just got back from a really fun walleye fishing trip on the St. Louis River. It is a river that flows into Lake Superior. I posted a picture so you could see my "BIG ONE!"
Instead of putting more information about books to read, I decided to post some good online games and activities to do over the summer. Click on the link to take you to the pages.
Fifth grade reading/language skill builders: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-5th-langbuilders.htm
Science fun: bone practice http://www.abcya.com/skeletal_system.htm
Keyboard practice: http://www.abcya.com/keyboard.htm
Book reviews for kids by kids: http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/
Cool things to make and do at home: http://www.education.com/activity/fifth-grade/
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Summer post #2
I just got back from my vacation to Wisconsin. It is time to start working on two of my favorite things....gardening (flowers and veggies) and reading. I get to start my things to read list! I'm going to start with the Shadow Children series. Margaret Petersen Haddix wrote a series about a world where families were allowed to only have 2 children. The children that were born to each family after number two had to remain hidden (Shadow Children). The first in this series is Amoung the Hidden. The link to the author's website is http://haddixbooks.com/books.html, in case you are interested in reading this series as well. These are GOOD fifth grade level books. Happy reading!
