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Fourth and fifth grade chat and chew

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Fourth and fifth graders will be reading Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage. The discussion of the novel will take place on Tuesday, January 14 during lunch and lunch recess in the LMC. This book was chosen as a Newbery Honor Book. 

Please pick up a sign-up form in the LMC or download the pdf. Students may also check out a copy from the OMS LMC or the Arlington Heights Memorial Library.

​​"Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel--a café owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known."

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Third grade chat and chew

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Third graders are invited to join us for Chat and Chew on Tuesday, April 14 from 12:10-1:10 in the LMC. They will be discussing Extra Credit ​by Andrew Clements.

Please pick up a sign-up form in the LMC or download the pdf.  Turn in your registration form to Mrs. Solak so that we know how many students will attend. 

It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And consequently, Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra credit project: find a pen pal in a distant country. But when Abby’s first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, complications arise. The elders agree that any letters going back to America must be written well, but the only qualified English-speaking student is a boy. And in this village, it’s not proper for a boy to correspond with a girl. So, Sadeed’s sister will dictate and sign the letters for him. But what about the villagers who believe that girls should not be anywhere near a school? And what about those who believe that any contact with Americans is...unhealthy?

As letters flow back and forth—between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of central Asia, across cultural and religious divides, through the minefields of different lifestyles and traditions—a small group of children begin to speak and listen to each other. And in just a few short weeks, they make important discoveries about their communities, about their world, and most of all, about themselves.


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