Dear families,

This post relates to the 5th grade TAG Reading class, first block of the day.

We have begun a new book! We are reading the book  A Long Way from Chicago as an entire class this week and next week, and we are doing some exciting projects with it. Today we created tableaus of the first few chapters of the book. In the coming days students will rewrite the lyrics to the traditional song “Camptown Races” to reflect the main events of each chapter of the song. Maybe your child will sing their new song for you when it’s finished..!

Below are the page deadlines for the book. Please note that we are moving through it quickly because it’s a pretty short book!

Dear families,
this post is for families of students in my first block TAG reading class.

We have just finished studying nonfiction text features and structures. Students have read some very challenging narrative nonfiction about important events in history.

For our winter vacation, the class has set a goal for themselves of reading a whopping 4,350 pages! Each student has considered his/her habits and the time that they will have during vacation to read and has set an individual goal (that is part of our whole class goal) of total pages to read over break. We have established a big reward of extra recess if everyone in the class manages to meet his/her goal over the vacation, but we need your help! Please would you initial your child’s reading log each day to acknowledge/vouch for the reading that he/she reports doing over the break, then sign the log at the end of break as an acknowledgement of the entire effort? All the students have identified books that they want to read toward this goal (but if you need more ideas, please see the previous post that includes a Padlet with book recommendations from classmates). Thank you in advance for your help!

I hope you all have a restful and joyous break full of seeing lots of loved ones and eating your favorite treats!