A Summer Message From the 4th Grade Team
Happy summer!
We hope you have a wonderful vacation.
Spend a lot of time outside playing. Summertime is a wonderful time for exploring, for riding your bike, for swimming, for imaginative play…
When you are indoors, though, we would like you to read! The more you read, the better you read. Most of what you read should be your own choice. Keep a list of everything you read this summer (if you love to read, that’s hard – but give it a try), and give the list to us when school starts.
One of the books on your list should be a choice from the list below. The list contains some really wonderful books. If you want to read more, of course you can. But do read at least one.
Enjoy your summer vacation.
Your Fourth Grade Teachers
For our new fourth graders!
The more you read, the better you read. We want you to read all summer! Most of the books you read should be totally your own choice. But we would like you to choose at least one book listed below and include it in your summer reading.
Almost any book by Matt Christopher (M) Herbie Jones (series)by Suzy Kline (N) Amber Brown Goes Fourth (series) by Paula Danziger (N) Catwings (series) by Ursula LeGuin (N) Stories Julian Tells (series) by Ann Cameron (N) The Boxcar Children (series) by Gertrude Chandler Warner (O) Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (series) by Betty MacDonald (O) Henry Huggins (series) by Beverly Cleary (O) Ramona the Pest (series) by Beverly Cleary (O) Encyclopedia Brown (series) by Donald and Rose Sobol (P) Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear (series) by Lensey Namioka (P) Bunnicula (series) by James Howe (Q) Meet Addy (series) from the American Girls Collection (Q) Little House in the Big Woods (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Q and R) |
Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill (M) The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla (N) Chocolate Fever by Robert Smith (O) The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (O) The King’s Equal by Katherine Paterson (O) The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes (O) The Bear that Heard Crying by N. Kinsey-Warnock and H. Kinsey (P) Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant (P) The School Mouse by Dick King-Smith (P) Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (series) by Judy Blume (Q) Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog (series) by John R. Erickson (Q) Staying Nine by Pam Conrad (R) The Monster’s Ring by Bruce Coville (R) |