Mobile County
Dunbar Middle School Mobile, AL
Supply List and Summer Reading List for 5th Grade
Monday, June 08, 2009
Come and blog your summer reading with us!

Supply List for 5th Grade

One Binder -1 inch

Wide-ruled notebook paper

Construction Paper

Scissors

Crayons

Colored Pencils

Glue Sticks

4 Composition Journals

5 tab dividers

2 pocket folders with prongs

1 highlighter

Teacher wish list:  kleenex, hand sanitizers, paper towels, Ziploc Bags quart size and gallon size

Fifth Grade Summer Reading List

Choose one book from each subject to read over the summer.  You will be required to take an AR test on each of the three books you read in addition to the assignment below the titles.

Reading:  Philip Hall Likes Me, I Recknon Maybe by Bette Greene, or

              School Story by Andrew Clements

Assignment:  You may complete a book review on our blog (http://dunbar.mcm.schoolinsites.com/) or turn in a reading response journal with at least 15 entries due the first day of school

Social Studies:  Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne, or

                       The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac

Assignment:  Find one newspaper article or website and write three paragraphs relating the content of the book with the newspaper article or website.

Science:  Cal and the Amazing Anti-Gravity Machine by Richard Hamilton, or

              Egg Drop Blues by Jacqueline Turner Banks

Assignment:  Write three paragraphs relating the content of the book to science.