Grades 3-5 Assignment:

Instructions: Students in grades 3-5 are to read all the books assigned to their respective future grade, even if they have read the books previously. After reading all three of the assigned readings, the students are to write a statement declaring that they have read all of the assigned books and sign the statement. Students should bring this statement with them on the first day of school.


3rd Grade

1. Aesop's Fables, the following tales: The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, Grasshopper and the Ants, North Wind and the Sun, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Androcles and the Lion, The Lion and the Mouse, The Dog in the Manger, The Fox and the Grapes, The Goose and the Golden Eggs, The Bundle of Sticks, King Log and King Stork, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, Belling the Cat.
2. Hans Christian Andersen, the following tales: The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Tinderbox.
3. The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet: Eleanor Cameron

4th Grade

1. Uncle Remus: by Joel Chandler Harris (as told by Julius Lester) edition with ISBN 080370271X
2. Book of Three: Lloyd Alexander
3. By the Great Horn Spoon! Sid Fleischman

5th Grade

1. Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L'Engle
2. Complete Perrault's Fairy Tales
3. The Great Turkey Walk: Kathleen Karr