Trains and Mushrooms” Week 34 Fourth Grade The Transcontinental Railroad (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Eric Kraft Fungi (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Mary Kay Carson I often think about how different my life might be if I had a girl or two around to balance out my two rough and tumble boys,…
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Category: Fourth Grade
“Great Fire” Week 36 Fourth Grade The Great Fire (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Marie Gibson And just like that fourth grade is finished, and we’ve had so much fun this week celebrating the end of a magnificent school year and the start to an adventurous summer! And Great Fire was a wonderful book…
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“Adaptations and Good Causes” Week 35 Fourth Grade For a Good Cause (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Patricia Baehr Animal Adaptations (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Lindsay A. Caputo Fourth grade is almost over! I really can’t believe it’s true that my little guy is about to be a fifth grader, and I…
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“Journeys and Wrecks” Week 33 Fourth Grade The Wrecks (Fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) Amazing Journeys (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Ron Bacon From Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Sir Francis Drake, Abel Tasman, and James Cook to John Glennie, Francis Chichester, Naomi James, Tom McClean, Remy Bricka,…
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“Sharks, Sharks, and more Sharks” Week 32 Fourth Grade Shark Rescue (Fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Tandi Jackson Amazing Sharks (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Melvin Berger My boys love sharks. The teeth, the ferocity, the danger; they love it all. So this week’s kit, with 2 books all about sharks, was an…
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“Dares, Eagles, and Eggs” Week 31 Fourth Grade The Dare at Eagle Rock (Fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Helen Chapman All About Eggs (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Cheryl Jakab Over the past few weeks we’ve been doing a lot of hiking as a family. It must be the warmer weather and the…
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“Preserving World History” Week 30 Fourth Grade The Adventures of Tutankhamen (Fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Helen Chapman A World Worth Keeping (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Julie Hamston This week we read The Adventures of Tutankhamen, a historical fiction book about young King Tut’s courageous pre-coronation hippopotamus hunt, and A World Worth…
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“Real-life Dragons!” Week 29 Fourth Grade Land of the Dragons (Non-fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Rod Morris This week’s book Land of the Dragons was the perfect follow-up to our fiction book from last week Dragon Slayer. Although Komodo dragons aren’t exactly the same creatures that are featured in fantasy dragon tales, they are…
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“Dragon Slayer” Week 28 Fourth Grade Dragon Slayer (Fiction, Level 14, Stage 3) by Joy Cowley The McDragon family is under siege from a man who wants to turn their bodies into burgers and their skins into armor, and it’s up to Robbie to save them all. So how does he do it? You’ll have…
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