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• MrSchrader

  West Indianola Elementary
  EDUCATOR: Clayton Schrader
  GRADE: 5
  CLASS URL: http://www.swap.com/classroom/mrschrader-topeka-kansas-226/
  
  I am an elementary educator teaching 5th grade in Topeka, Kansas. Combining academic rigor, high energy, and purposeful use of technology, my classroom is fair and safe for students to work their hardest, be supported, and learn in an accessible way.

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• Less Than Zero
  Stuart J. Murphy
  (Print)
  While trying to save enough money to buy a new ice scooter, Perry the Penguin learns about managing his money and about negative numbers.
• copies wanted1

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• Racso and the Rats of Nimh
  Jane Leslie Conly
  (Print)
  In this sequel to "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH", Rasco, a boastful rat, is trying to find his way to Thorn Valley, the home of the intelligent rats of NIMH, to learn...
• copies wanted1

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• A Three Hat Day
  Laura Geringer
  (Print)
  An eccentric gentleman loves hats so much he wears three a day. After much loneliness, he finally finds his true love--in a hat shop, of course--wearing the perfect hat.
• copies wanted1

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• Divide and Ride
  Stuart J. Murphy
  (Print)
  Teaches division as a group of friends goes on different carnival rides.
• copies wanted1

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• Bigger, Better, Best
  Stuart J. Murphy
  (Print)
  In their family's new house, Jenny, Jeff, and Jill use a simple geometry concept to calculate area and prove, once and for all, whose room is bigger.
• copies wanted1

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• Stone Fox
  John Reynolds Gardiner
  (Print)
  Ten-year-old Willy is brokenhearted to discover that his grandfather's farm is in foreclosure due to unpaid taxes. Overwhelmed by the situation, Willy's grandfather develops...
• copies wanted1

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• Anno's Counting Book
  Mitsumasa Anno
  (Print)
  In this clever, wordless counting / picture book, the numbers zero to twelve are illustrated by people, trees, animals, and more, increasing with each picture. Beginning...
• copies wanted1

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• The Well
  Mildred D. Taylor
  (Print)
  Set in the early 1900s, this is a prequel to "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". David and Hammer are young boys when all the wells in town go dry except theirs. The Logan...
• copies wanted1

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• Mr. Popper's Penguins
  Richard Atwater
  (Print)
  Mr. Popper's Penguins is one of the handful of American books for children that has attained the status of a classic. First published in 1938, this story of a housepainter...
• copies wanted1

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• The City of Ember
  Jeanne Duprau
  (Print)
  The underground City of Ember is the last refuge of human life in a post - apocalyptic world. When the City itself becomes endangered, it's up to 12 - year - old Lina and...
• copies wanted5

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• Call Me Francis Tucket
  Gary Paulsen
  (Print)
  In this sequel to "Mr. Tucket" Francis heads West in search of his parents who are traveling via wagon train to Oregon. Along the way he must survive a stampede, outwit desperadoes,...
• copies wanted1

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• Do You Wanna Bet?
  Jean Cushman
  (Print)
  Explores the subject of probability, using scenes from two children's everyday life at home and at school.
• copies wanted1

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• A Remainder of One
  Elinor J. Pinczes
  (Print)
  Poor Joe the bug. He wants to march with the other 24 bugs in his squadron, but the queen bug likes her followers to march in even lines such as two rows of 12, three rows...
• copies wanted1

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• Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
  Mitsumasa Anno
  (Print)
  Factorials are introduced with creativity and whimsy in this deceptively simple counting picture book. A round, blue and white jar contains not only the sea, but an island...
• copies wanted1

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• The Man Who Loved Clowns
  June Rae Wood
  (Print)
  Thirteen - year - old Delrita, whose unhappy life has caused her to hide from the world, loves her uncle Punky but sometimes feels ashamed of his behavior because he has...
• copies wanted6

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• Apple Fractions
  Jerry Pallotta
  (Print)
  Describes a variety of apples and uses them to introduce fractions.
• copies wanted1

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• The Thief Lord
  Cornelia Funke
  (Print)
  When they learn that their aunt and uncle plan to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers (Prosper, age 12 and Bo, age 5) run away from their home in Germany and forge...
• copies wanted1

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• Grandfather Tang's Story
  Ann Tompert
  (Print)
  Grandfather tells a story about shape - changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.
• copies wanted1

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• Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl
  Anne Frank
  (Print)
  One of the most valuable and informative artifacts of the holocaust, THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL is the actual diary of Anne Frank, a German - Jewish girl living in Amsterdam...
• copies wanted1

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• Eating Fractions
  Bruce McMillan
  (Print)
  Two boys divide and share food in this introduction to fractions. Bright color photographs illustrate the boys sharing such items as a halved banana, a clover role which...
• copies wanted1

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• Can You Count to a Googol?
  Robert E. Wells
  (Print)
  Introduces the concepts of very large numbers, up to a googol, and multiples of ten.
• copies wanted1

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• 12 Ways to Get to 11
  Eve Merriam
  (Print)
  Colorful collage illustrations and an imaginative text introduce readers to the various combinations of numbers that can be used to add up to 11.
• copies wanted1

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• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
  Cindy Newschwander
  (Print)
  Assisted by his knight, Sir Cumference, and using ideas offered by his wife and son, King Arthur finds the perfect shape for his table
• copies wanted1

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• Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi
  Cindy Neuschwander
  (Print)
  When Sir Cumference drinks a potion which turns him into a dragon, his son Radius searches for the magic number known as pi which will restore him to his former shape
• copies wanted1

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• Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
  Cindy Neuschwander
  (Print)
  Radius is on a quest to earn his knighthood! With only a circular medallion, a mysterious poem, and his own wits to guide him, he must find and rescue a missing king. Includes...
• copies wanted1

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• Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
  Cindy Neuschwander
  (Print)
  King Arthur has issued a challenge - - the first knight to find the sword Edgecalibur will be the next king - - and Sir Cumference wants to be the one.
• copies wanted1

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• Bad Luck Brad
  Gail Herman
  (Print)
  On the last day of school Brad keeps running into bad luck, but by the end of the day he realizes that there is always a chance things will get better.
• copies wanted1

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• Chickens on the Move
  Pam Pollack
  (Print)
  Tom, Anne, and Gordon learn about shape and measurement when they try to find the right spot for their chicken pen.
• copies wanted1

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• G Is for Googol
  Schwartz David
  (Print)
  Explains the meaning of mathematical terms which begin with the different letters of the alphabet from abacus, binary, and cubit to zillion.
• copies wanted1

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• Inkheart
  Cornelia Funke
  (Print)
  Both lovers of books and reading, 11-year-old Meggie and her bookbinder father, Mo, enter the fight of their lives with evil villains who were originally characters in a...
• copies wanted1

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• Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
  Cindy Neuschwander
  (Print)
  Radius is on a quest to earn his knighthood! With only a circular medallion, a mysterious poem, and his own wits to guide him, he must find and rescue a missing king. Includes...
• copies wanted1

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• Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes
  Stuart Murphy
  (Print)
  While piloting his spaceship through the skies, Captain Invincible encounters three - dimensional shapes, including cubes, cylinders, and pyramids.
• copies wanted1

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• Grapes of Math
  Greg Tang
  (Print)
  Tang, a lifelong lover of math, shares the techniques that have helped him solve problems in the most creative ways. Briggs's vibrant and inviting illustrations create a...
• copies wanted1

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• Polly's Pen Pal
  Stuart J. Murphy
  (Print)
  <p>Polly's pen pal, Ally, is 125 centimeters tall, weighs 25 kilograms, and lives 450 kilometers away - - and Polly is determined to find a way to visit her! A story of...
• copies wanted1

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• Sir Cumference And the Isle of Immeter
  Cindy Neuschwander
  (Print)
  Per and her cousin, Radius, solve the mystery of the Isle of Immiter by finding the area and perimeter of different geometric shapes.
• copies wanted1

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• Anno's Hat Tricks
  Akihiro Nozaki
  (Print)
  The reader, with the help of two children, Tom and Hannah, two white hats, and three red hats learns about logic.
• copies wanted1

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• Anno's Magic Seeds
  Mitsumasa Anno
  (Print)
  A wizard gives jack two magic seeds. 'Eat one,' he says, 'and you won't be hungry for another year. Bury the other and it will produce two more seeds.' Jack does as he is...
• copies wanted1

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• A Bag Full of Pups
  Dick Gackenbach
  (Print)
  Most of the people who take one of the twelve pups Mr. Mullin is giving away want a dog to perform some sort of task for them, but the little boy just wants a pet to love.
• copies wanted1

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• Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is
  Robert E. Wells
  (Print)
  Illustrates the concept of big, bigger, and biggest by comparing the physical measurements of such large things as a blue whale, a mountain, a star, and the universe.
• copies wanted1

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• Less Than Nothing Is Really Something
  Robert Froman
  (Print)
  Explains in simple terms the concept of positive and negative numbers.
• copies wanted1

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• Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream
  Cindy Neuschwander
  (Print)
  Amanda Bean loves to count everything, from the books in the library to the popcorn in her bowl. If only she could count faster! Her teacher tries to persuade her of the...
• copies wanted1

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• Math Curse
  Jon Scieszka
  (Print)
  Here is the tale of a girl in the grips of the math mania. Everything is a math problem to her, to be tabulated and calculated from here to infinity. This is a book for math...
• copies wanted1

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• How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty
  Nathan Zimelman
  (Print)
  Chronicles the triumphs and setbacks of the second grade as they try a variety of schemes to raise money for a trip to the Statue of Liberty
• copies wanted1

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• Itch
  Michelle D. Kwasney
  (Print)
  In 1968, after the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores "Itch" Colchester and her grandmother move from Florida to an Ohio trailer park, where she meets new people and, when...
• copies wanted1

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• Sounder
  William Armstrong
  (Print)
  A timeless classic, SOUNDER tells a sad, yet hopeful story of a family of African American sharecroppers in the rural South. The family of six, including a young boy, struggle...
• copies wanted1

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• Cut Down To Size At High Noon
  Wayne Geehan
  (Print)
• copies wanted1

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• Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens
  Cindy Neuschwander
  (Print)
  When Sir Cumference and his wife, Lady Di of Ameter, host a massive surprise birthday party for the king, they must quickly figure out a way to count all the guests that...
• copies wanted1

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• Mockingjay
  Suzanne Collins
  (Print)
  In the thrilling conclusion to Suzanne Collins's sensational Hunger Games trilogy, Kathniss Everdeen must pay the price for having outwitted the ruthless Capitol to win the...
• copies wanted1