What Are We Reading????

In class right now we are reading several books. The Giver by Lois Lowery, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, A View From Saturday and From the Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, and The Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn. These are some books that have entertained many of my past 5th grade classes. I hope students this year are enjoying them as well.

This is a View From Saturday book club students and Mrs. Smith (IUS Student). We are using pantomime (when we act with no words) to act out scenes from the book. This shows how much detail the author used in her writing, we could act them out and our group could guess which part of the book it was. - Jill Oldham

Jacob and I were using pantomime (in a shopping way) to act out a scene from our book: The View From Saturday. The we are acting out is when Ethen is shopping for a gift for Julian. Ethen first finds a book, then a game, and then a puzzle. Ethen thinks a puzzle would be perfect for Julian. - Trevor Isaacs

This is me and Meredith doing pantomime (showing something without words) of a scene in our bookclub book, The View From Saturday. We were doing the part in the book where Noah talks about how this red wagon was holding a wedding cake. It was lots of fun and The View From Saturday is a really good book. Can't wait to see how it ends...-Joy Girgis