Welcome Moreland Hills 5th Graders!

This blog is dedicated to sharing our thoughts about the books we read and love. All of the fifth grade students and teachers will be able to see the content and information posted. Keep in mind that there are some ground rules that we all need to follow.

This website will be a lot of fun. This is a great way to communicate with each other at all times. We will share thoughts on books, recommendations, and show are strong thinking as readers.

We look forward to having an engaging and fun time!

The 5th grade teachers

Blog Guidelines

1) This blog is for discussions about literacy and books.
2) All comments have to be approved by the teachers-make sure that what you are writing is appropriate for school.
3) Book recommendations, topics, discussion threads, and comments will be both teacher and student driven.
4) We all have our opinions on books-it is fine to disagree with an opinion or comment.
5) Disagreeing is different than disrespectful. Treat everyone and every comment with courtesy and respect.
6) Grading-students that write recommendations and give substantive comments will be able to use their blog entries as a replacement for a journal entry from that week.
7) Names-students will have the option to use their own name or post anonymously.
8) All discussion threads/topics/themes will be teacher monitored.
9) Students will post and comment on book recommendations for each other that they think highly enough of to share with the class.


Friday, January 29, 2010

Letters From Camp-Book Recommendation

Letters From Camp is a great mystery. It is about six children (brothers and sisters) that go to a camp called Happy Harmony where they are going to get along. The counsels at first seem nice but in the end they turn out mean. At the camp the kids are made to do work day and night. The counselors try to poison the kids and make them wear hideous clothes! One of the counsels (Dorothy) is using too much money and they are going bankrupt! Dolly and Dwayne are trying to poison their siblings! This is a very visual book and that is one reason why we recommend this book. This book is told through letters, journal entries, pictures, recipes, ledgers, receipts,and other papers that give the story a uniqueness about it that you will not see in other mysteries. Another reason we like this book the way it is written from each child's perspective, and each letter is different. As you can see there's a lot going on but you'll have to read the book to find out what happens at the end! This is a great book for your mystery project.

Enjoy your reading!

By Cat 47 and bloomable1

3 comments:

cat47 said...

This looks like an awesome book!!!!!

bloomable1 said...

Letters from Camp is a wonderful mystery! It is very entertaining too!

soccerlover11 said...

Sounds like a very entertaining book!I can't wait to try it!!!=)