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

Sisters Grimm-Series Recommendation

The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley are great books.It is about these 2 kids named Sabrina and Daphne Grimm whose parents got kidnapped by this mysterious organization called the Scarlet Hand.So they go to all these different people and foster homes.They finally ended up in Ferryport Landing with their grandmother.There they meet these people, animals, and things from fairy-tale stories called Everafters.The Everafters are trapped in the city because Wilhelm Grimm who is Sabrina's and Daphne's great-great-great (I'm not sure how many greats there are) grandpa worked with Baba Yaga, an old witch to put a magical barrier up and when the last Grimm dies or when all the Grimms move out of Ferryport Landing , the barrier goes down.So most of the Everafters in Ferryport Landing are trying to kill or get rid of the Grimms.The Grimms are staying in the city because if the barrier goes down the world would be in chaos.All Everafters won't die of age because they don't age,they could only die if someone killed them.It's a great action-humor-mystery series.The first book is called Fairy-tale Detectives.There are right now 7 books each with about 300-400 pages.It's a really good series and I highly recommend it.
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