Tuck Everlasting
This book is about a family who drank from a spring and has not aged a day since then. They meet a young girl who is having family issues and tell her their secret. This fantasy is about the impact and changes we have on people's lives. And what if we lived forever?
http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/tuckeverlasting.html
http://www.bookrags.com/Tuck_Everlasting
Women's History Month
We will be reading nonfiction passages about famous women during the month of March. The following websites are a great resource to learn more about women who have shaped our world. Be thinking about who you would like to pick for your research project.
http://search.eb.com/women
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
The first woman we are going to be learning about is Ameila Earhart. Check out the following websites to learn more about what happened to this famous women.
http://www.ameliaearhart.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
Number the Stars
We just finished reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. It is about a young girl growing up in German occupied Denmark during the 1940s. It tells about her family and friends and the trials they face. To learn more about the book or the author visit the following websites:
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/Can-you-Number-the-Stars-97936.html
http://www.loislowry.com/
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0310721/
Take the following quizzes to see how much you know: http://www.quia.com/quiz/335962.html
http://www.quia.com/rr/149948.html
Grammar Games
http://www.quia.com/ba/8086.html
Battleship Adverb game
http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Adverbs.html
A great game to practice adverbs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/adjectives/index.shtml
This is a great way to practice adjectives.
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=WCN6702
This site is to practice possessive nouns.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/clubhouse/index_pre.html
This website is a fun way to practice types of sentences.
Check out the school's library collection
Visit destiny.kannapolis.k12.nc.us to see what books are offered in our library. There are also resource lists that cover the subjects we will be studying.
