SchmidKids Homework: 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade PEP Reading •Students are expected to read at least 30 minutes at home daily and complete any unfinished classroom work. •All students are expected to complete a minimum of five book reports a quarter. (Forms are in the black binders.) Books chosen for outside reading must be of appropriate quality and length. •In addition, third, fourth and fifth graders will be given book projects to complete throughout the quarter. Spelling and Vocabulary •(Fourth and Fifth graders only) Spelling and vocabulary words will be presented on Monday with tests on Friday. Students will be expected to learn challenge words each week. *************************************************************************** Dear 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Pep Readers, The following is a list of books that will be read in class during the school year. Please avoid including these selections as part of your outside reading, if at all possible. If you have already read the books, hopefully you have enjoyed them. 3rd Grade Charlotte's Web Stone Fox Patricia Polacco books Sarah, Plain and tTall Skylark Shiloh Wingwalker Brain Selznick books Head for the Hills! Who Stole the Wizard of Oz Gooney, the Fabulous The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Venezia Books 100 Penny Box Fractured Fairy Tales 4th Grade The BFG/ The Witches Island of the Aunts Earthquake Terror Hundred Dresses The Van Gogh Cafe The Lonesome Cafe Lostman's River Deadly Waters Jean Fritz books Out of the Dust Esperanza Rising The Cay Number the Stars Twenty and Ten Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes A Wrinkle in Time Winter Camp In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 5th Grade Alice in Wonderland Morning Girl Island of the Blue Dolphin Thank you, Sarah A Writer's Notebook Seedfolks Pictures of Hollis Woods Nightjohn The Fire Thief Treasure Island Codetalker Tuck Everlasting Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Phantom Tollbooth The Westing Game