Text Box:                              Blue Grass Elementary School
    226 W Sycamore St.  Blue Grass, IA 52726 Phone: (563) 381-1712 Fax: (563)381-9024

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Please contact Webmaster Kristy Seamer or Sherry Roberts with comments or questions  by clicking on her name.

Click the icon to the right to view the Blue Grass library catalog.

 

2009 Summer Reading List:

Click here to view the summer reading lists for kindergarten through eighth grade.

 

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Battle of the Books

Fourth and Fifth Grade students in the district are selected to participate in the annual book battles for each grade.  Here are the lists for the books they will be questioned on:

 

Grade 5:

Because of Anya, by Margaret Peterson Haddix.

The Boy Who Saved Baseball, by John H. Ritter

Chevrolet Saturdays, by Candy Dawson Boyd

Passage to Freedom, by Ken Mochizuki

Pictures of Hollis Woods,  by Patricia Reilly Giff

Saving Lilly, by Peg Kehret

The View from Saturday, by E.L. Konigsburg

A Week in the Woods, by Andrew Clemens

When the Soldiers Were Gone, by Vera W. Propp

A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck

 

OTHER GOOD READS:

Check out 100 of the best books for children at:  www.teachersfirst.com

Learn about authors, play trivia games about books, or find out what books will be released in the coming months at:  www.kidsreads.com

Want to get excited about reading?  Check out Book Adventure (www.bookadventure.com).  You can create book lists, take interactive quizzes, and earn points toward prizes.

Visit any of the libraries within a 50-mile radius and check out materials using your Scott County library card.

 

Click to get information about these libraries:

Scott County Library System

Davenport Public Library

Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

Bettendorf Public Library

 

Recommended Reading Websites

2008

 

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/summerreading/recsummerreading/recommendedreading.cfm

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/summerreading/

http://www.davenportlibrary.com

http://www.funbrain.com

www.gameaqarium.com  Click on Everglade Spelling

www.kidport.com

http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/

http://www.primarygames.com

http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/fowlwords/start.htm  Foul Words

http://www.rif.org/summer/

http://school.familyeducation.com/summer/reading/36091.html

www.sillybooks.net   This is not a spelling website, but it has neat books written by students.

http://www.starfall.com

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/kalani  Website about weather

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/index_main.php  (The kids love the hangmouse game on this one)