Grades 5 & 6

Required Religion Books: Grade 5 – Diethelm, Walter, O.S.B.- St. Pius X: The Farm Boy Who Became Pope Grade 6 - Pamela Muñoz Ryan - Esperanza Rising Students must choose at least one nonfiction book and one fiction book and one of your choice from the below list. Students are encouraged to read more. If a title comes from a series, students can read any book within the series. Nonfiction Grandin, Temple - Calling All Minds Ignotofsky, Rachel - Women in... series Kean, Sam - The Disappearing Spoon (young adult adaptation) Montgomery, Sy - Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World Murphy, Jim - The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution Paquette, Ammi -Joan and Laurie Ann Thompson - Two Truths and a Lie series Scientists in the Field series – Various Authors Sundem, Garth - Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change: Courageous Actions Around the World Sweet, Melissa - Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White Tunnell, Michael - Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift’s “Chocolate Pilot” Yousafzai, Malala - I Am Malala (young adult edition)

Fiction Bertman, Jennifer Chambliss - Book Scavenger series Birdsall, Jeanne - The Penderwicks series Brown, Peter - The Wild Robot series Gibbs, Stuart - Fun Jungle, Moonbase Alpha and/or Spy School series Grabenstein, Chris - Mr. Lemoncello’s Library series Gutman, Dan - Honus and Me series (A Baseball Card series) or/and Flashback Four series Hale, Nathan - Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time series Messner, Kate - Capture the Flag, Eye of the Storm and/or The Exact Location of Home Napoli, Donna Jo - Treasury of Greek Mythology Reynolds, Jason - Ghost series Shovan, Laura - The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary Siegel, Mark, et al. - 5 Worlds series Sutherland, Tui - The Menagerie series and/or Wings of Fire series Williams - Garcia, Rita - One Crazy Summer series

St. Pius X School Grade 6 Supply List

For classroom:

2 packages of loose leaf paper 4 boxes of tissues 3 packages of sanitizing wipes 2 rolls of paper towels 1 package of plastic spoons 1 bottle hand sanitizer

We will be color - coding supplies per subject; Be aware of color requests. For students:

1 (3 ring) binder w/ loose leaf paper - Religion - purple 6 spiral notebooks - (purple, yellow, black, red, orange & green) 7 pocket folders (purple, yellow, black, blue, red, orange & green) 6 jumbo stretchy book covers-(yellow, black, blue, red, orange & green) 6 packages of index cards and ziploc bags or file box for storage of cards Pencil case - pouches preferred Pencils (mechanical w/ extra lead or regular) Pens – red and blue or black – NON-CLICKING 1 (child) scissors 2 package markers (thick and thin) 1 package whiteboard markers 1 package colored pencils 1 package highlighters 2 packages of glue sticks Earbuds for use with Chromebooks (kept at school) rosary beads (new students) Sturdy bag for Religion class Bible - St. Joseph N.C.V. New Testament Vest Pocket Edition (new students) Youth Catechism of Catholic Church (new students)

At home: Spanish/English Dictionary Loose - leaf , graph and printer paper Ruler and protractor