Dear Fourth-into-Fifth Graders,<\/p>\n
Many new academic experiences await you in Dalton\u2019s fifth grade, and the Fifth Grade House Advisors are looking forward to meeting each one of you. Because we feel that reading is such an important part of your educational and personal development, your summer assignment is to read Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time<\/em>, as well as two books of your choice.<\/strong> There is no written assignment for A Wrinkle in Time<\/em>; simply come to fifth grade ready to discuss the concept of “tessering” in the story, as well as the character of Meg Murry. In terms of the other two books, you can choose from the 2015 Summer Recommended Reading for Rising 5th and 6th Grade Students<\/a>\u00a0and the Recommended Book Series<\/a> lists, prepared by Mrs. Feldman, or explore bookstores and libraries for great new titles and classics.<\/p>\n We request that you record the titles and authors of all the books you devour. In September, Mrs. Feldman and Mr. Quain will have you share some of your favorite books and series.<\/p>\n However, since many of you will have the pleasure of reading the following books with your classmates next year, we ask you to NOT choose the following books as your summer reading books:<\/p>\n Have a wonderful summer,<\/p>\n Sincerely, Dear Fourth-into-Fifth Graders, Many new academic experiences await you in Dalton\u2019s fifth grade, and the Fifth Grade House Advisors are looking forward to meeting each one of you. Because we feel that reading is such an important part of your educational and personal development, your summer assignment is to read Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1537","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nHouse Advisors, Fifth Grade
\nLibrarians, Middle School Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"