cin Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I've been looking around, including the Great Books curriculum. 20k leagues seems a bit advanced for my 5th grader. The cover alone would probablly give us several sleepless nights. I'm also assuming that some of those are readalouds. I know for a fact that their 2nd grade list would require a LOT of reading aloud from me. So anyway, how about some good books that my future 5th grader can read on her own? And will she be forever damaged if we don't read all the Great Books? (or even half?):tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 lol... here's our 5th grade book list (so far) http://nancextoo.livejournal.com/122233.html P.S. It doesn't include 20,000 Leagues... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cin Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 lol... here's our 5th grade book list (so far) http://nancextoo.livejournal.com/122233.html P.S. It doesn't include 20,000 Leagues... now THAT sounds like a 5th grade reading list :) Thanks for making me feel more, Normal, shall we say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 now THAT sounds like a 5th grade reading list :) Thanks for making me feel more, Normal, shall we say? Anytime! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cin Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 BTW, nance, LOVE your blog. As funny as it sounds, I wish I had MORE discipline so I could be LESS disciplined with school. If that makes any sense. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura in STL Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 IMO, it is definitely quality over quantity! I would rather read and discuss one great/good book with my kids, and have it make an impact on their lives than cruise through many books only to wonder if they will remember them later. When the books on the list don't look like something my kids could learn from or enjoy at this point I skip them. I don't have a problem with adaptations, so if I'm worried about the reading level or length but not content I use those. Some series my fifth grader has read/is reading are: Percy Jackson Harry Potter The Chronicles of Narnia(loves these!) Little House on the Prairie Boxcar Children I can't remember all the individual titles he's read this year, but I have used the book Honey for a Child's Heart to help him choose fun, independent reading books. For school this year he has read: Tales of Ancient Egypt Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt The Golden Goblet Tirzah My dd is a bit younger but really likes: Ballet Shoes, Dancing Shoes,etc. By Neal Sheffield Sister's Grimm HTH & happy reading! Hittite Warrior Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura in STL Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Sorry, Hittite Warrior was supposed to go up with school reading! I don't want anyone to think I'm signing my posts Hittite Warrior!!! Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Thanks, I was wondering what a Hittite Warrior Homeschooler might look like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thea Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Ummm, *I* don't want to read 20,000 Leagues... My 5th grader has read: *fun* reading The Tale of Desperaux Scat Pippi Longstocking Trixie Belden Black Beauty The Tiger Rising Golden The Penderwicks and.. humm, Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. All of them. Those are the ones I remember and for School Reading The Wizard of OZ Born in the Year of Courage, etc. (all the SL 5 readers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skadi Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Are you looking for recreational reading or books to go along with the trivium's historical curriculum (Ancients for the fifth grade)? Fun Stuff: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Watership Down by Richard Adams (read-aloud, fun for adults and kids alike) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by R. O'Brien The Princess Bride by William Goldman The Neverending Story by Michael Ende Stardust by Neil Gaiman The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Secret Garden by Burnett (maybe a read-aloud?) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber The Night Fairy by Laura Shlitz Ancients Reading List: In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton Ancient Greece by Peter Connolly Ancient Rome by Peter Connolly Zeus: King of the Gods by George O'Connor (series) Gilgamesh the King by Ludmila Zeman (trilogy) (1300 BC) Black Ships Before Troy: Story of the Iliad by Rosemary Sutcliff (800 BC) The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff (800 BC) The Ancient Greece of Odysseus by Peter Connolly (800 BC) Herodotus and the Road to History by Jeanne Bendick (484 BC) Aristotle and Scientific Thought by Steve Parker (335 BC) Alexander the Great by John Gunther (336 BC) The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky (200 BC) City: Story of Roman Planning & Construction by David Macaulay (200 BC) Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick (200 BC) Cleopatra by Diane Stanley (51 BC) In Search of a Homeland: Story of the Aeneid by Penelope Lively (29 BC) Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfield The Trouble with Wishes (Pygmalion) by Diane Stanley (8) Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster (14) Bodies from Ash: Life & Death in Ancient Pompeii by James Deem (79) Roman Mysteries #1: Thieves of Ostia by Carolina Lawrence, series (100) Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick (150) The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius by M.D. Usher The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (200) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 BTW, nance, LOVE your blog. As funny as it sounds, I wish I had MORE discipline so I could be LESS disciplined with school. If that makes any sense. :001_huh: Thank you... and lol I think I know what you mean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cin Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Great thread and suggestions. Thanks! And, if given a chance, my children might just concur that *I* am a Hittite Warrior Homeschooler. We all have those days, don't we! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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