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As a school, we are focusing on the 16 Habits of The Mind. We are familiarizing students, parents, and staff with these sixteen key concepts, as we will be utilizing them while teachers plan and in daily conversations with children in 2020-21. These elements will teach all of us to think, reflect and learn. We challenge you to identify your thinking and see what category your mind is at during that time. In the student choice boards below you will see the sixteen habits in bold.
16 Habits of The Mind (chart)
16 Habits of the Mind (explanation)
Parents/Guardians: As a staff, we realize that a few folks would rather have worksheet type activities for their children. However, at Overall Creek, we are not heavily focused on worksheets or memorization. We are staying true to the vision of Overall Creek Elementary as a STEM school that prepares our children for 10-20 years from now (problem solvers and collaborators), and staying as true to our students as we can at this time. Finally, the activities created for this week (and down the road) are truly designed to help the parents/guardians who are not teachers, who are working, have multiple children at home and just plain old unsettled. Thank you for your understanding.
2020 Summer Reading Lists
Lists are for the students' 2020-21 grade-level.
As always, we want students (and parents) reading each day. If the suggested lists do not meet your child's needs or interest, simply read ANYTHING. However, suggested reading and what the content of the books contain will be referred to during the coming school year.
Kindergarten
IT'S TIME FOR KINDERGARTEN
Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!
A Place Called Kindergarten
The Good Egg is Good
The Pout-Pout Fish Goes to School
Pete the Kitty and The Groovy Playdate
You Can Do It, Bert!
Llama, Llama Misses Mama
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Chicka Chicka 123
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
1st Grade
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Jon Scieszka
There is a Bird on Your Head - Mo Willems
The Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes
Tuesday - David Wiesner
Diary of a Worm - Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss
Uneversaurus - Aidan Potts
The Dot - Peter H. Reynolds
Freckle Juice - Judy Blume
2nd Grade
Judy Moody- Megan McDonald
Stink! – Megan McDonald
Bad Kitty- Nick Bruel
Diary of a Wimpy Kid- Jeff Kinney
Magic Tree House- Mary Pope Osborne
A to Z Mysteries- Ron Roy
Cam Jansen-Davis A. Adler
Kitty Corner—Ellen Miles
Puppy Place- Ellen Miles
I Survived- Lauren Tarshis
Vet Volunteers- Laurie Halse Anderson
Nancy Drew Clue Crew- Carolyn Keene
Bad Guys- Aaron Blabey
3rd Grade
Book Series (any book in the series)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
Fudge, Double Fudge, Super Fudge - Judy Blume
Vet Volunteers - Laurie-Halse Anderson
I Survived - Lauren Tarshis
Nate the Great - Marjorie W. Sharmat, Craig Sharmat, Mitchell Sharmat
A to Z Mystery – Ron Roy
Sarah Plain and Tall Trilogy (Sarah Plain and Tall, Skylark, and Winter's End) - Patricia MacLachlan
Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene
Hardy Boys - Franklin Dixson
4th Grade
Lexile Levels: 300-500
Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli-340
Third Grade Angels by Jerry Spinelli-390
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar-460
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume-470
Lexile Levels: 500-700
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo-520 The BoxCar Children-580
Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew-550
39 Clues: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan-610
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell-650
I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis-660
The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail by Kelly Murphy-680
Poppy by Avi-670
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith-680
Charlotte’s Web by Garth Williams, E.B. White-680
Lexile Levels: 700
Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe-700
The Lightning Thief Series by Percy Jackson-740
Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls-700
The Witches by Roald Dahl-740
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling-770
The Nancy Drew Series-760
The Hardy Boys Series-760
Who Was George Washington? by Nancy Harrison-720
Who Was Abraham Lincoln? by Janet B. Pascal-720
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown—740
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein-720
Lexile Level: 800-1000
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink-890
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater-910 Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder-930
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson-800
Lexile Levels: 1000-1200
Call of the Wild by Jack LondonCrenshaw- Katherine Applegate
The Fourteenth Goldfish- Jennifer L. Holm
Hero- Jennifer Li Shmitz
Lost in the Pacific: Not a Drop to Drink -Tod Olson
5th Grade
The Land of Stories Series
I Survived Series
The Lightning Thief
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The Secret Garden
Walk Two Moons
The Wringer
Frindle
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The War that Saved my Life
The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe
6th Grade
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
- Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
- The Island by Gary Paulsen
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
- The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner
- The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
- The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Series by Jacqueline Kelly
- The Giver Series by Lois Lowry
- Hatchet Series by Gary Paulsen
Summer Expectations for All Otters (guardians too) Each Day
20 minutes of Reading & Math
LIBRARY...ONLINE BOOKS!
Online Book Resources
Special Area (Choice Boards are for all grades and special areas)
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Counselor Cool Stuff
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Counselor Connection
Citizenship Activities
K-6 LEXIA Link
K-6 iReady Link
Prodigy Link
Kindergarten
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Prodigy (Math)
1st Grade
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2nd Grade
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3rd Grade
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Prodigy (Math)
4th Grade
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5th Grade
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6th Grade
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Speech Practice
Speech Articulation Choice Board
Speech Buddies
Mommy Speech
Speech Sprouts
ELL
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