“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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“Drawings, Weird Animals and Halves” Week 35 First Grade Bunrakkit (Fiction, Level 5) by Joy Cowley Wonderfully Weird Animals (Non-fiction, Level 5) by Susan Ring Give Me Half (Non-fiction, Level 5) by Stuart J. Murphy This week’s kit featured 3 fun books, the accompanying lesson plans, and my first grader’s very first Independent Assessment Booklet…
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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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“Bones, Kitchens, and Kenya” Week 34 First Grade Old Bones (Fiction, Level 5) by David Hill Kitchen Science (Non-fiction, Level 5) by Gare Thompson A Look at Kenya (Non-fiction, Level 5) by Helen Frost A is for Africa (Non-fiction, Level 5) by Ifeoma Onyefulu This week was Week 34 – only 2 more weeks left…
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“Trumpets, Katydids, Money and More” Week 33 First Grade Jim’s Trumpet (Fiction, Level 4) by Joy Cowley A Katydid’s Life (Non-fiction, Level 4) by Nic Bishop Money (Non-fiction, Level 4) by Pam Bull Charts and Graphs (Non-fiction, Level 4) by Rochelle Bates We’re officially on the downhill slope to summer break! So how do 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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“Owls, Celebrations, and Measurement” Week 32 First Grade Owls (Non-fiction, Level 4) by Susan Ring We Celebrate (Non-fiction, Level 4) by Brenda Parkes Let’s Measure It (Non-fiction, Level 4) by Emma Rose I love the variety and quality of the non-fiction books in the AlphaSkills kits, and this week’s kit contained three great ones. Owls…
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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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“Maps, Clouds and Missing Snacks” Week 31 First Grade The Case of the Missing Snacks (Fiction, Level 4) by Myka-Lynn Sokoloff Types of Maps (Non-fiction, Level 4) by Mary Dodson Wade Looking at Clouds (Non-fiction, Level 4) by Susan Ring This week we read about a group of students who kept losing…
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