Summer Literacy Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 1

Research shows that children who do not continue reading through the summer can lose a month or more of progress made during the school year. By encouraging their children to read, parents are playing a critical role in achieving our goal of having every child reading at or above grade level. Keep your children engaged in reading!

Have fun exploring and securing books from the public library. The packet consists of calendar pages for June, July and August, as well as resources and links to support all the aspects of reading children need to practice. We encourage you to complete at least 30 packet activities this summer. Keep track of your work in a journal or use the book report forms.

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing literacy. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the literacy requirements, please sign and return this paper to the second grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

______Parent Signature Date

Just Read, Florida! 2013 Summer Recommended Reading List Grades K-3 No, David!, Shannon, David A Day in the Life of Murphy, Provensen, Alice Ocean Hide and Seek, Kramer, Jennifer Evans A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder, Wick, Walter Pancakes for Breakfast, DePaola, Tommie Actual Size, Jenkins, Steve Polar Slumber, Rockhill, Dennis Ants by Melissa Stewart Poppleton in Winter, Rylant, Cynthia Ape Escapes!: And More True Stories of Animals Behaving Badly by Aline River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River, Talbott, Hudson Alexander Newman She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader, Aunt Flossie’s Hats, Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald Annino, J.G. Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! Hayes, Geoffrey The Napping House, Wood, Audrey and Dan Big Wolf and Little Wolf, Brun-Cosme, Nadine The Secret Olivia Told Me, Joy, N. Buffy the Burrowing Owl, Gilbert, Betty The Storm Book, Zolotow, Charlotte Buster, Fleming, Denise The Story of Ruby Bridges, Coles, Robert Camille Saint-Saens’s The Carnival of the Animals, Prelutsky, Jack and Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, Ipcizade, Catherine GrandPre, Mary What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, Jenkins, Steve and Page, Robin Charlotte’s Web, White, E.B. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale, Aardema, Verna Christian, the Hugging Lion, Richardson, Justine and Parnell, Peter Wonder Horse, McCully, Emily Arnold Count Down to Fall, Hawk, Fran Daddy & I, Greenfield, Elosie Grade 1: Miami Dade County Schools List Deep in the Swamp, Bateman, Donna A Bug, A Bear, and A Boy David McPhail Fiction Diary of a Worm, Cronin, Doreen Benny's Pennies Pat Brisson Fiction Dino-Dinners, Manning, Mick and Granstrom, Brita Biggest, Strongest, Fastest Steve Jenkins Fiction Discovery in the Cave by Mark Dubowski Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Doreen Cronin Fiction Fly Danny, Fly, Gilbertson, Chip, Restivo, Gina, and Kendrich, Michelle Do Like a Duck Does Judy Hindley Fiction Frog and Toad Together, Lobel, Arnold I Ain't Gonna Paint No More Karen Beaumont Fiction/Multicultural Gracias *Thanks. Mora, Pat I Know an Old Teacher Anne Bowen Fiction Henry the Impatient Heron, Love, Donna Knuffle Bunny Mo Willems Fiction Hi! Fly Guy, Arnold, Tedd Leo the Late Bloomer Robert Kraus Fiction Hot City, Joosse, Barbara Nate the Great and the Pillowcase Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Fiction How People Learned to Fly, Hodgkins, Fran and Kelley, True Old Black Fly Jim Aylesworth Fiction I Always, Always Get My Way, Krasnesky, Thad Rap A Tap Tap Here's Bojangles Leo Dillon Fiction/Multicultural Jitterbug Jam, Hicks, Barbara Jean Sheep Blast Off! Nancy Shaw Fiction Leaf Jumpers, Gerber, Carole Un Leon en la Biblioteca Michelle Knudsen Fiction Little Skink’s Tail, Halfmann, Janet Un Poquito Más Yanitzia Canetti Fiction Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Allard, Harry Moose and Magpie, Restrepo, Bettina My Name is Yoon, Recorvits, Helen

Just Read, Florida! Office offers a variety of tips to consider when helping readers choose books: Grade 1 Below are a few websites that will provide reading levels for many of the Summer Literacy Ideas books listed in this packet. Please feel free to use one of these to find a reading level or use any similar tool that may be available to you. Read every day! Go online to the public library to find a great Librarians and teachers are also experts in helping pair students with program near you! appropriate books. http://www.mdpls.org/ --AR BookFinder: http://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx --Lexile Find a Book: http://www.lexile.com/search/filters/results/ --Scholastic Book Wizard: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ DIRECTIONS:  If a reader tackles a book above his or her reading level, consider Do your best to complete as many of these summer literacy what additional instruction or lower-level reading resources activities as you can! Record your work in your literacy journal every might help. day. In August share your Journal with your teacher.  Ask the reader to keep track of unknown words within the book, and look them up together. Each journal entry should:  Take turns reading aloud to each other to help process the -Have the date of the entry information into smaller portions. -Have a clear and complete sentence or summary -Be neat and organized Online eBook sites to investigate: Tumble Book Library - This is a great site for books for young children. Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: You will find a large selection of animated picture books that are read July 5th aloud. Today we read a book called ______. The author was ______. I did Children's E Books - A terrific site for young reader's from beginner to the activity on the calendar and I did the best on______. advanced. Story Online - This site is sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Feel free to use one of the book report forms to write about a book that Foundation and it contains videos of famous actors reading stories. you read that day as a journal entry. On Lion for Kids - This site allows you to download children's and young adult stories if you have their library card. Raising Readers - This PBS site allows you to read and listen to stories. Children's Books Online - The Rosetta Project- Contains a international collection of children's antique books. eBooks.com - Great site for young adults to purchase eBooks. Books are divided and listed by subject so it makes it easy to navigate

June 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3 4 5 6 7 Last Day of School for Students

10 11 12 13 14 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS SIGHT WORDS Visit a library. Get a Go in your MAKE INDEX card for your child. pantry/closet and CARDS Practice reading Write the words. Check out some read the labels on see the list of words. Circle the vowels. books. the food cans and me Write down your boxes. Which is can fastest time. Draw tally marks to your favorite? it show how many of is each vowel. here where

17 18 19 20 21 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS WRITING Choose a new SIGHT WORDS MAKE INDEX Play sight word Write 2 sentences recipe. Read it Use playdoh to CARDS bingo: Use post it about the beach. together and have write your words. said squares to make a Draw a picture and fun making it. was board and bingo label it. went markers to cover and the words! one the

24 25 26 27 28 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS WRITING Start reading a READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Put your words in Write a story about story and stop Draw a picture of CARDS ABC ORDER. a pet using as many before the end. Ask your favorite page. hey of your sight words your child to Explain in writing but as you can. predict the ending. why this page is it your favorite. not going

July 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Review Week! Play SIDEWALK Share memories of Read a book Please review all CHALK sight a special 4TH of July without words and your sight words! words! Write the holiday with your make up the story words using chalk child. as and throw wet HAPPY 4TH OF you go along. sponges at the JULY! words until they disappear! Once they are gone, see if you can still spell it. 8 9 10 11 12 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS SIGHT WORDS Help your child READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Use magnetic Use a stopwatch to create a map of Draw a portrait of CARDS letters to spell time your child as your home. the main character Number words words on a cookie he reads a stack of and write a one- Days of the week sheet or on the sight word cards. sentence summary refrigerator. Challenge to him to beat his accompany your time! sketch. 15 16 17 18 19 SIGHT WORDS: Read a book under Play SIGHT WORD WRITING SIGHT WORDS MAKE INDEX your covers with a MEMORY! Cut words out of BEACH BALL CARDS flashlight before Have your child lay the newspaper. WORDS Number words you go to sleep. the index cards on Arrange them on Section off a ball Days of the week a table in rows, in a paper to make new into many squares face down position. sentences. with a marker. This game is played Each square houses like Concentration, a sight word. or Memory Match, Toss the ball to your child will be your child, who matching common recites the word words. under their right thumb. 22 23 24 25 26 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS Go for a walk today Play a game after READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX SKIP JUMP WORDS and try to find one reading the Read a nonfiction CARDS Using lighter item that begins directions together. book today and tell Months of the year colored vinyl, cut with every letter of someone the most out shapes, put a the alphabet. interesting fact you sight word on each discovered in your one with a marker, reading. and tape them to the floor. Your child can jump from word to word, saying each word as they land.

29 30 31 SIGHT WORDS: Play SIGHT WORD WRITING MAKE INDEX GO FISH! Clip pictures in the CARDS Make a “deck” of newspaper. Ask in cards using index your out cards child to tell you have Make two cards about the picture that with each or list did word on it. Play “Go adjectives to Fish” with the word describe the cards. picture.

August 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 READ A BOOK SIGHT WORDS Read a story. Make WORD SCAVENGER puppets out of HUNT small paper bags. Hide sight words Put on a puppet around the room. show.

12 13 14 15 16 Review Week! SIGHT WORDS READ A BOOK Help your child WRITING Please review all Use a stopwatch to Read a poem. Let decorate a box. Put Make a Hello! Card your sight words! time your child as your child guess it by the door to for your new he reads a stack of what the next hold homework teacher. Tell them sight word cards. rhyming word will and books. all the fun things Challenge be. you did this him to beat his summer! time!

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Summer Math Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 1

Get ready to discover mathematics all around you this summer! Just like reading, regular practice over the summer with problem solving, computation, and math facts will maintain and strengthen the mathematic gains you made over the school year.

Inside you will find creative mathematics activities to explore at home. The goal is for you to have fun thinking and working collaboratively to communicate mathematical ideas. While you are working ask how the solution was found and why a particular strategy was chosen.

The packet consists of calendar pages for June, July and August, as well as directions for math games to be played at home. Literature and websites are also recommended to explore mathematics in new ways. We encourage you to complete at least 30 packet activities this summer. Keep track of your math in a journal.

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing math. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of math practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the math requirements, please sign and return this paper to the first grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

______Parent Signature Date

Cool Math Books to Read: Shape, Shape, Shapes by Tana Hoban Pattern Fish byTrudy Harris Grade 1 Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni Summer Math Ideas The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid

Math Tools You’ll Need: Games To Play (You will need a deck of cards) Notebook for math journal 1. Compare Coins Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Remember an Ace is Pencil the same as 1. Pass out all cards in the deck among all of the Dice players. Each player flips over one card at the same time. The Chalk player with the higher number keeps both cards. If the two cards Regular deck of playing cards are the same, turn over another card. The player with the higher number keeps all four. DIRECTIONS: 2. Double Compare Do your best to complete as many of these summer math Same as above, but turn over two cards each time and find the activities as you can! Record your work in your math journal every sum. The one with the larger sum takes the cards. day. In August share your Math Journal with your first grade 3. Close to 10 teacher. Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Deal 3 cards to each player. Which two cards brings you closest to 10? Which player is Each journal entry should: closest to 10? Have the date of the entry Example: You turn over the cards 5, 4, 3 and your opponent turns Have a clear and complete answer over an Ace, 8, and 3. You can make 9 (5 and 4) and your opponent Be neat and organized can make 9 (Ace and 8) or 11 (8 and 3). It’s a tie since you are both 1 away from 10! Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: th Other games to play: Checkers, Memory, Chutes and Ladders, July 5 Today I counted all the toes in my family. Here is a jigsaw puzzles, Parcheesi, Fish, Crazy Eights, Candy Land, Blink, picture of the toes. (Draw a picture) There are 30 Connect Four, Legos, K’Nex. toes. 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 30 Fun Websites to Explore: www.funbrain.com www.aplusmath.com www.pbskids.org www.illuminations.nctm.org Click on ACTIVITIES. Click on K-2 and press SEARCH.

June 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3 4 5 6 7 Last Day of School for Students

10 11 12 13 14 Read Shape, Shape, Look at some of your toys. Shapes by Tana Hoban. Try to sort them into Walk outside what shapes groups. Explain to someone do you see? Draw all the how you sorted them. shapes you see.

17 18 19 20 21 Play Compare Describe 3 different ways Use sidewalk chalk to write Toss ten pennies. How many Read Inch by Inch by Leo (see directions) to make 10 cents. all the numbers (in order) heads? How many tails? Try Leonni. What parts of your that you can. (Use paper and again! Did you get the same body can you use to measure How did you decide which pencil if you do not have result? things in your house and number is greater? chalk) outside.

24 25 26 27 28 Hop on your right foot and Ask your family which food Count backwards how long it Grab a handful of objects. Keep track of the weather count how many hops you can they would like at a cookout. will take you to put on your (Pennies, beads, marbles…) for one week. How many do it! Hop on your left foot. Which food did people want shoes. For example 20 Guess how many there are. sunny days? Rainy days? How What foot could you do the most? Which food did seconds. 20, 19, 18… Count your objects. Were many more rainy days than more hops on? Compare. people want the least? you close to your estimate? sunny days?

July 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Count the people that live in Write your name on a piece Walk around the house. How How many jumping jacks can Make a pattern. Challenge your house with you. How of paper. How many letters many steps does it take you you do in one minute? Is it someone to continue it. Can many toes do they have are there in your name? How to get around your house. more or less than 20? How you make a different altogether? How many many letters are there in Then try giant steps. Which do you know? pattern using the same fingers? the names of all your family? used more steps? things?

8 9 10 11 12 Make a picture using 2 Explore one of the Count backwards starting at Make numbers or shapes out Read The Button Box by circles, 3 triangles, and some recommended websites. 10… 15… 20… 25… of play dough. Margarette Reid Find a rectangles. Explain how you What math did you learn? collection in your house to made it to someone! sort.

15 16 17 18 19 Set the table for dinner! How long is your room? Draw and label a picture of Count the number of steps it Find 10 coins in your house. How many plates do you need Measure with blocks or toys. your family from tallest to takes to get from your front What do they add up to? Is to put out? How many forks? Measure with your feet. shortest door to the refrigerator. it more or less than 25 How many glasses? Make Which was more? Which is Represent this number. cents? sure everyone has a place! less? 22 23 24 25 26 Name five different places Read Pattern Fish by Trudy Draw what you are doing at Do a yes/no survey asking Play Double Compare you see numbers outside. (on Harris Draw, build, or sing 2 different times today the people in your house, “Do (see directions) street signs, stores, license your own pattern. when the minute hand of the you like the rain?” Circle What number facts are easy plates…) Draw a picture of clock is on the “12” which side has the most for you? the places answers. 29 30 31 Roll two number cubes or Play a strategy game Estimate how many dice and add the two Connect 4 or Checkers Did spoonfuls it will take to numbers together. How many your strategy work? Will you finish your cereal. Count times did you have to roll to try a different strategy the each spoonful as you eat. get a 12? Try again next time you play? How close were you to your estimate? August 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 Go around your house and Pick a number from 1-12. count the windows and Find that number around doors. Are there more your house! Look at clocks, windows or doors? Draw the phones, books, magazines, one with more. etc… Pick another number 5 6 7 8 9 Read Ten Black Dots by Tell an adult in your home Play Close to 10 Practice “counting” on from Build something with 20 Donald Crews Name something you did (see directions) numbers other than 1. blocks or Legos. Describe different objects that come yesterday. Tell them How does this help you to Example: Start at 4,5,6… your structure and the in groups of 1,2,3,… Make something you will do practice your facts? Start at 17, … Start at 32, … shapes you used. your own book tomorrow.

12 13 14 15 16 Play with bubbles. How many YOU DID IT! Please bring can you blow in one minute? your journal to your first grade teacher on the first day of school.

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Summer Literacy Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 2

______Parent Signature Date

Just Read, Florida! 2013 Summer Recommended Reading List No, David!, Shannon, David Ocean Hide and Seek, Kramer, Jennifer Evans Grades K-3 Pancakes for Breakfast, DePaola, Tommie Polar Slumber, Rockhill, Dennis A Day in the Life of Murphy, Provensen, Alice Poppleton in Winter, Rylant, Cynthia A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder, Wick, Walter River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River, Talbott, Hudson Actual Size, Jenkins, Steve She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader, Ants by Melissa Stewart Annino, J.G. Ape Escapes!: And More True Stories of Animals Behaving Badly by Aline The Napping House, Wood, Audrey and Dan Alexander Newman The Secret Olivia Told Me, Joy, N. Aunt Flossie’s Hats, Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald The Storm Book, Zolotow, Charlotte Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! Hayes, Geoffrey The Story of Ruby Bridges, Coles, Robert Big Wolf and Little Wolf, Brun-Cosme, Nadine Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, Ipcizade, Catherine Buffy the Burrowing Owl, Gilbert, Betty What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, Jenkins, Steve and Page, Robin Buster, Fleming, Denise Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale, Aardema, Verna Camille Saint-Saens’s The Carnival of the Animals, Prelutsky, Jack and Wonder Horse, McCully, Emily Arnold GrandPre, Mary Charlotte’s Web, White, E.B. MIAMI DADE COUNTY LIST: Grade 2 Christian, the Hugging Lion, Richardson, Justine and Parnell, Peter Alexander and the Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day -Judith Viorst Count Down to Fall, Hawk, Fran Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor -Peggy Parish Daddy & I, Greenfield, Elosie Blueberries for Sal -Robert McCloskey Deep in the Swamp, Bateman, Donna Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs -Judi Barrett Diary of a Worm, Cronin, Doreen Earthdance -Joanne Ryder Dino-Dinners, Manning, Mick and Granstrom, Brita El Lorito Pelon -Hilda Perera Discovery in the Cave by Mark Dubowski Ellington Was Not a Street- Ntozake Shange Fly Danny, Fly, Gilbertson, Chip, Restivo, Gina, and Kendrich, Michelle Franklin Goes to the Hospital- Sharon Jennings Frog and Toad Together, Lobel, Arnold Henry and Mudge and the Big Sleepover -Cynthia Rylant Gracias *Thanks. Mora, Pat La Casa Adormecida -Audry Wood Henry the Impatient Heron, Love, Donna La Cucarachita Martina -Hector Cuenca Hi! Fly Guy, Arnold, Tedd Miss Nelson is Missing -Harry Allard Hot City, Joosse, Barbara Mouse Soup- Arnold Lobel How People Learned to Fly, Hodgkins, Fran and Kelley, True Officer Buckle and Gloria- Peggy Rathmann I Always, Always Get My Way, Krasnesky, Thad Polar Bear Night -Lauren Thompson Jitterbug Jam, Hicks, Barbara Jean Poppleton Forever -Cynthia Rylant Leaf Jumpers, Gerber, Carole Rosa' Room- Barbara Bottner Little Skink’s Tail, Halfmann, Janet Stink and the World's Worst Super-stinky Sneakers- Megan McDonald Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Allard, Harry Where the Wild Things Are -Maurice Sedak Moose and Magpie, Restrepo, Bettina My Name is Yoon, Recorvits, Helen

Just Read, Florida! Office offers a variety of tips to consider when helping readers choose books:

Below are a few websites that will provide reading levels for many of the books listed in this packet. Please feel free to use one of these to find a Summer Literacy Ideas reading level or use any similar tool that may be available to you. Librarians and teachers are also experts in helping pair students with appropriate Read every day! Go online to the public library to find a great program books. near you! --AR BookFinder: http://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx http://www.mdpls.org/ --Lexile Find a Book: http://www.lexile.com/search/filters/results/ --Scholastic Book Wizard: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ DIRECTIONS:  If a reader tackles a book above his or her reading level, consider Do your best to complete as many of these summer literacy what additional instruction or lower-level reading resources might activities as you can! Record your work in your literacy journal every help. day. In August share your Journal with your teacher.  Ask the reader to keep track of unknown words within the book,

and look them up together. Each journal entry should:  Take turns reading aloud to each other to help process the -Have the date of the entry information into smaller portions. -Have a clear and complete sentence or summary

-Be neat and organized Online eBook sites to investigate:

Tumble Book Library - This is a great site for books for young children. You Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: will find a large selection of animated picture books that are read aloud. July 5th Children's E Books - A terrific site for young reader's from beginner to Today we read a book called ______. The author was ______. I advanced. did the activity on the calendar and I did the best on______. Story Online - This site is sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation

and it contains videos of famous actors reading stories. Feel free to use one of the book report forms to write about a book you On Lion for Kids - This site allows you to download children's and young read that day as a journal. adult stories if you have their library card.

Raising Readers - This PBS site allows you to read and listen to stories.

Children's Books Online - The Rosetta Project- Contains a international

collection of children's antique books.

eBooks.com - Great site for young adults to purchase eBooks. Books are

divided and listed by subject so it makes it easy to navigate

June 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3 4 5 6 7 Last Day of School for Students

10 11 12 13 14 Visit a library. Get a Go in your card for your child. pantry/closet and Check out some read the labels on books. the food cans and boxes. Which is your favorite? 17 18 19 20 21 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS WRITING Choose a new SIGHT WORDS MAKE INDEX Play sight word Write 2 sentences recipe. Read it Use playdoh to CARDS bingo: Use post it about the beach. together and have write your words. after squares to make a Draw a picture and fun making it. because board and bingo label it. before markers to cover could the words! going just

24 25 26 27 28 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS WRITING Start reading a READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Put your words in Write a story about story and stop Draw a picture of CARDS ABC ORDER. a pet using as many before the end. Ask your favorite page. over of your sight words your child to Explain in writing then as you can. predict the ending. why this page is there your favorite. they this too

July 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Review Week! Play SIDEWALK Share memories of Read a book Please review all CHALK sight a special 4th of July without words and your sight words! words! Write the holiday with your make up the story words using chalk child. HAPPY 4TH OF as you go along. and throw wet JULY! sponges at the words until they disappear! Once they are gone, see if you can still spell it. 8 9 10 11 12 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS SIGHT WORDS Help your child READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Use magnetic Use a stopwatch to create a map of Draw a portrait of CARDS letters to spell time your child as your home. the main character two words on a cookie he reads a stack of and write a one- went sheet or on the sight word cards. sentence summary were refrigerator. Challenge to accompany your when him to beat his sketch. where time! will with 15 16 17 18 19 SIGHT WORDS: Read a book under Play SIGHT WORD WRITING SIGHT WORDS MAKE INDEX your covers with a MEMORY! Cut words out of BEACH BALL CARDS flashlight before Have your child lay the newspaper. WORDS able you go to sleep. the index cards on Arrange them on Section off a ball above a table in rows, in a paper to make a into many squares across face down position. new sentence. with a marker. again This game is played Each square houses almost like Concentration, a sight word. always or Memory Match, Toss the ball to your child will be your child, who matching common recites the word words. under their right thumb. 22 23 24 25 26 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS Go for a walk today Play a game after READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX SKIP JUMP WORDS and try to find one reading the Read a nonfiction CARDS Using lighter item that begins directions together. book today and tell any colored vinyl, cut with every letter of someone the most anything out shapes, put a the alphabet. interesting fact you ask sight word on each discovered in your bad one with a marker, reading. ball and tape them to become the floor. Your child begin can jump from word to word, saying each word as they land.

29 30 31 SIGHT WORDS: Play SIGHT WORD WRITING MAKE INDEX GO FISH! Clip pictures in the CARDS Make a “deck” of newspaper. Ask behind cards using index your child to tell between cards you about the books Make two cards picture or list both with each adjectives to boy word on it. Play “Go describe the brother Fish” with the word picture. cards.

August 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 READ A BOOK SIGHT WORDS Read a story. Make WORD SCAVENGER puppets out of HUNT small paper bags. Hide sight words Put on a puppet around the room. show.

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Summer Math Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 2

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing math. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of math practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the math requirements, please sign and return this paper to the second grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

______Parent Signature Date

Cool Math Books to Read: Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst. Grade 2 100 Days of School by Trudy Harris. The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid Summer Math Ideas The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

Math Tools You’ll Need: Games To Play (You will need a deck of cards) Notebook for math journal 1. Compare Coins Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Remember an Ace is Pencil the same as 1. Pass out all cards in the deck among all of the Dice players. Each player flips over one card at the same time. The Crayons player with the higher number keeps both cards. If the two cards Regular deck of playing cards are the same, turn over another card. The player with the higher number keeps all four. DIRECTIONS: 2. Tens Go Fish Do your best to complete as many of these summer math Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Deal 5 cards to each activities as you can! Record your work in your math journal every player. Each player looks for cards that make 10, and they draw new day. In August share your Math Journal with your second grade cards from the deck to replace them. Players take turns asking each other for a card that will make 10 with a card from their hand. A player’s teacher. turn is over when no more pairs can be made. The game is over when there are no more cards. Both players record their combinations of 10. Each journal entry should: 3. Close to 20 Have the date of the entry Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Deal 3 cards to each Have a clear and complete answer player. Which two cards brings you closest to 10? Which player is Be neat and organized closest to 10? Example: You turn over the cards 5, 4, 3 and your opponent turns over an Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: Ace, 8, and 3. You can make 9 (5 and 4) and your opponent can make 9 th July 5 (Ace and 8) or 11 (8 and 3). It’s a tie since you are both 1 away from 10! Today I collected 25 cents. It was easy to count 25 pennies. I know that 5 pennies is the same as 1 nickel Other games to play: Checkers, Memory, Chutes and Ladders, so every time I counted five pennies I changed to a jigsaw puzzles, Parcheesi, Fish, Crazy Eights, Candy Land, Blink, nickel, so I needed 5 nickels. Connect Four, Legos, K’Nex. 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 25 cents Fun Websites to Explore: www.funbrain.com www.aplusmath.com www.illuminations.nctm.org Click on ACTIVITIES. Click on K-2 and press SEARCH.

June 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3 4 5 6 7 Last Day of School for Students

10 11 12 13 14 Take 7 pennies. Put some in Read 100 Days of School 1 hand and some in the by Trudy Harris. other hand. Show 1 hand and Find 5 different ways to have an adult figure out how reach 100. Record each way. many are hiding. Switch.

17 18 19 20 21 Play Tens Go Fish Go on a Shape Hunt around Estimate the number of Play Close to 20. Roll two dice and practice (See directions) your home. Look for items measuring cups it will take to How does this help you addition and subtraction by Add up all the pairs. Who has shaped like a square, fill a pitcher. Test it out! practice your addition? adding or subtracting the more? How many more? rectangle, and a circle. Draw two numbers. and label the items.

24 25 26 27 28 How many ways can you make Play Patch Tool on the Read Alexander, Who Used to Jump rope and count by Read The Button Box by Margarette 25 cents using pennies, website Rich Last Sunday by Judith tens to 100. Try counting Reid. Find a collection at home and sort nickels, dimes, and quarters? www.illuminations.nctm.org Viorst. backwards. it. Ask a friend to figure out how you Choose 2 shapes. Make a Keep track of how you spend sorted. pattern. Describe the pattern. $1.00

July 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Play a strategy game like Mancala or Play Bobbi Bear Gather a handful of coins with a value Today’s number is 12 Make 12 by: - Tell the time that you go to bed to the Connect Four. Would you use the same www.illuminations.nctm.org How less than $2.00. Calculate the total. Adding two numbers -Subtracting two closest hour or half hour. Draw a picture strategy the next time you play? many outfits can you make with 2 shirts numbers -Adding three numbers of the clock’s hands for that hour. and 2 pants?

8 9 10 11 12 Blow a marble, a bottle cap and a pencil Make a 3-D shape using mini- Play Color Patterns on the website Play Double Compare (see directions) If you save two cents every day in the across a table. Measure how far they go. marshmallows and toothpicks. How www.illuminations.nctm.org. month of July, how much money will you Which goes the farthest? By how much? many corners does your shape have? have saved at the end of the month? How many edges?

15 16 17 18 19 Ask 10 people their favorite kind of pizza. Read 98,99…Ready or Not, Here I 50 is the answer. What could the How many times can you dribble a Hold an ice cube in your hand. Count by Record your data in a table, chart, or Come! By Teddy Slater. Play hide and go question possibly be? Challenge yourself basketball in 1 minute? 2 minutes? Can 2’s until it melts. Did you count to more graph. seek counting backwards from different to think of more questions. you beat your first time? or less than 100! numbers to 100.

22 23 24 25 26 Using a ruler, find 5 things longer Ask 5 people their phone numbers. Visit the website www.funbrain.com Read Super Sand Castle Saturday Make a calendar for this week. than 12 inches and 5 things shorter Add the digits of each phone number and do some math. Record what you by Stuart Murphy Make a sand castle Record the temperature each day. At than 12 inches. together. Who’s phone number has did and describe the 3-D shapes. the end of the week, compare your the highest value? weather with the weather another state.

29 30 31 Go to the park and draw the shapes you Read The Doorbell Rang by Pat Play a strategy game like Checkers or see. Do you see more rectangles than Hutchins Make cookies with your family! Connect Four. Would you use the same triangles? Can you share them equally? How many strategy the next time you play? are left over?

August 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 In one blow, how many bubbles can you A ball is symmetrical as you can cut it in make? What are the most bubbles you half and it will be the same on both sides. can blow at one time? Find 5 things in your house that are symmetrical.

5 6 7 8 9 Estimate how long it will take you to Play Tens Go Fish (See directions) Add Grab a handful of an item; cereal, beans, Go for a walk in your neighborhood and Visit the website www.aplusmath.com read 10 pages. Try it! up all the pairs. Who has more? How etc. Estimate how many pieces you look for odd and even numbers and do some math. Record what you did. many more? grabbed. Now count them. Was your estimate close?

12 13 14 15 16 Sit outside and use tally marks to record YOU DID IT! Please bring your journal how many birds you see in ten minutes to your second grade teacher on the first day of school!

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Summer Literacy Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 3

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing literacy. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the literacy requirements, please sign and return this paper to the third grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

______Parent Signature Date

Buffy the Burrowing Owl, Gilbert, Betty Buster, Fleming, Denise Camille Saint-Saens’s The Carnival of the Animals, Prelutsky, Jack and Just Read, Florida! 2013 Summer Recommended Reading List GrandPre, Mary Grades K-3 Charlotte’s Web, White, E.B. A Day in the Life of Murphy, Provensen, Alice Christian, the Hugging Lion, Richardson, Justine and Parnell, Peter A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder, Wick, Walter Count Down to Fall, Hawk, Fran Actual Size, Jenkins, Steve Daddy & I, Greenfield, Elosie Ants by Melissa Stewart Deep in the Swamp, Bateman, Donna Ape Escapes!: And More True Stories of Animals Behaving Badly by Aline Diary of a Worm, Cronin, Doreen Alexander Newman Dino-Dinners, Manning, Mick and Granstrom, Brita Aunt Flossie’s Hats, Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald Discovery in the Cave by Mark Dubowski Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! Hayes, Geoffrey Fly Danny, Fly, Gilbertson, Chip, Restivo, Gina, and Kendrich, Michelle Big Wolf and Little Wolf, Brun-Cosme, Nadine Frog and Toad Together, Lobel, Arnold Gracias *Thanks. Mora, Pat Don't Say Ain't Irene Smalls -Hector Henry the Impatient Heron, Love, Donna Freaks and Shrieks (Mostly Ghostly Series)- R.L. Stine Hi! Fly Guy, Arnold, Tedd Horrible Harry and The Ant Invasion -Suzy Kline Hot City, Joosse, Barbara Judy Moody Saves the World- Megan McDonald How People Learned to Fly, Hodgkins, Fran and Kelley, True Las Huellas Secretas -Fabin Negrin I Always, Always Get My Way, Krasnesky, Thad Mallory on the Move- Laurie Friedman Jitterbug Jam, Hicks, Barbara Jean No Dogs Allowed- Bill Wallace Leaf Jumpers, Gerber, Carole Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great- Judy Blume Little Skink’s Tail, Halfmann, Janet The Adventures of Captain Underpants- Dave Pilkey Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Allard, Harry The Lemonade War -Davies Jacqueline Moose and Magpie, Restrepo, Bettina The New Kid at School (Dragon Slayers' Academy Series) Kate McMullan My Name is Yoon, Recorvits, Helen

No, David!, Shannon, David Ocean Hide and Seek, Kramer, Jennifer Evans Pancakes for Breakfast, DePaola, Tommie Polar Slumber, Rockhill, Dennis Poppleton in Winter, Rylant, Cynthia Grade3 River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River, Talbott, Hudson She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader, Annino, J.G. Summer Literacy Ideas The Napping House, Wood, Audrey and Dan The Secret Olivia Told Me, Joy, N. Read every day! Go online to the public library to find a great The Storm Book, Zolotow, Charlotte program near you! The Story of Ruby Bridges, Coles, Robert http://www.mdpls.org/ Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, Ipcizade, Catherine What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, Jenkins, Steve and Page, Robin Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale, Aardema, Verna DIRECTIONS: Wonder Horse, McCully, Emily Arnold Do your best to complete as many of these summer literacy activities as you can! Record your work in your literacy journal every MIAMI DADE READING LIST: GRADE 3 day. In August share your Journal with your teacher. 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents- Lee Wardlaw Each journal entry should: A to Z Mysteries -Ron Roy -Have the date of the entry Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon -Paul Danziger -Have a clear and complete sentence or summary Beezus and Ramona -Beverly Cleary -Be neat and organized Busybody Nora -Johanna Hurwitz

Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery- David A. Adler Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl July 5th Tumble Book Library - This is a great site for books for young children. Today we read a book called ______. The author was ______. I did You will find a large selection of animated picture books that are read the activity on the calendar and I did the best on______. aloud. Children's E Books - A terrific site for young reader's from beginner to Feel free to use one of the book report forms to write about a book y our advanced. read that day as a journal. Story Online - This site is sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation and it contains videos of famous actors reading stories. On Lion for Kids - This site allows you to download children's and young adult stories if you have their library card. Raising Readers - This PBS site allows you to read and listen to stories. Children's Books Online - The Rosetta Project- Contains a international collection of children's antique books. eBooks.com - Great site for young adults to purchase eBooks. Books are divided and listed by subject so it makes it easy to navigate

BOOK REPORT FORM: Please use complete sentences. You may recreate this form on lined paper if you wish. Just Read, Florida! Office offers a variety of tips to consider when helping readers choose books:

Below are a few websites that will provide reading levels for many of the Name: Date: books listed in this packet. Please feel free to use one of these to find a Book Title: reading level or use any similar tool that may be available to you. Author: Librarians and teachers are also experts in helping pair students with appropriate books. Illustrator: --AR BookFinder: http://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx --Lexile Find a Book: http://www.lexile.com/search/filters/results/ --Scholastic Book Wizard: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ This book is about...  If a reader tackles a book above his or her reading level, consider Tell what the book is about. what additional instruction or lower-level reading resources might help.  Ask the reader to keep track of unknown words within the book, and look them up together.  Take turns reading aloud to each other to help process the information into smaller portions.

Online eBook sites to investigate: The setting of this book is ...

Describe the setting .

The main character in this book is...

Describe the main character.

The biggest problem in the book is...

Describe the main problem or conflict the characters have to solve.

Some important events in the book are...

Describe some things that happened as the characters tried to solve the problem.

At the end of the book...

Tell how the book ended.

I thought this book...

Tell whether you liked or didn't like this book. Give 3 reasons for your opinion.

June 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3 4 5 6 7 Last Day of School for Students

10 11 12 13 14 Visit a library. Get a Go in your card for your child. pantry/closet and Check out some read the labels on books. the food cans and boxes. Which is your favorite?

17 18 19 20 21 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS WRITING Choose a new SIGHT WORDS MAKE INDEX Play sight word Write 2 sentences recipe. Read it Use playdoh to CARDS bingo: Use post it about the beach. together and have write your words. add squares to make a Draw a picture and fun making it. air board and bingo label it. along markers to cover also the words! baby being

24 25 26 27 28 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS WRITING Start reading a READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Put your words in Write a story about story and stop Draw a picture of CARDS ABC ORDER. a pet using as many before the end. Ask your favorite page. below of your sight words your child to Explain in writing best as you can. predict the ending. why this page is better your favorite. boat body

July 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Review Week! Play SIDEWALK Share memories of Read a book Please review all CHALK sight a special 4th of July without words and your sight words! words! Write the holiday with your make up the story words using chalk child. HAPPY 4TH OF as you go along. and throw wet JULY! sponges at the words until they disappear! Once they are gone, see if you can still spell it. 8 9 10 11 12 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS SIGHT WORDS Help your child READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Use magnetic Use a stopwatch to create a map of Draw a portrait of CARDS letters to spell time your child as your home. the main character buy words on a cookie he reads a stack of and write a one- care sheet or on the sight word cards. sentence summary check refrigerator. Challenge to accompany your circle him to beat his sketch. class time! clean 15 16 17 18 19 SIGHT WORDS: Read a book under Play SIGHT WORD WRITING SIGHT WORDS MAKE INDEX your covers with a MEMORY! Cut words out of BEACH BALL CARDS flashlight before Have your child lay the newspaper. WORDS cold you go to sleep. the index cards on Arrange them on Section off a ball dark a table in rows, in a paper to make new into many squares died face down position. sentences. with a marker. dry This game is played Each square houses fact like Concentration, a sight word. fair or Memory Match, Toss the ball to feet your child will be your child, who matching common recites the word words. under their right thumb. 22 23 24 25 26 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS Go for a walk today Play a game after READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX SKIP JUMP WORDS and try to find one reading the Read a nonfiction CARDS Using lighter item that begins directions together. book today and tell fell colored vinyl, cut with every letter of someone the most few out shapes, put a the alphabet. interesting fact you fire sight word on each discovered in your free one with a marker, reading. full and tape them to goes the floor. Your child can jump from word to word, saying each word as they land. 29 30 31 SIGHT WORDS: Play SIGHT WORD WRITING MAKE INDEX GO FISH! Clip pictures in the CARDS Make a “deck” of newspaper. Ask great cards using index your hand cards child to tell you hard Make two cards about the picture head with each or list hear word on it. Play “Go adjectives to hold Fish” with the word describe the cards. picture

August 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 READ A BOOK SIGHT WORDS Read a story. Make WORD SCAVENGER puppets out of HUNT small paper bags. Hide sight words Put on a puppet around the room. show.

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Summer Math Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 3

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing math. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of math practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the math requirements, please sign and return this paper to the third grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

______Parent Signature Date

Cool Math Books to Read: Grade 3 Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream by Cindy Neuschwander The Greedy Triangle byMarilyn Burns Summer Math Ideas Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy Math for all Seasons by Greg Tang Math Tools You’ll Need: Notebook for math journal Games To Play (You will need a deck of cards) Coins 1. Compare- Addition and Subtraction Pencil Pass out all the cards to players. Each player flips over two cards. Dice Add or subtract the two numbers showing. Players compare their Chalk values and the person with the higher value wins all four cards. Regular deck of playing cards Toothpicks 2. Close to 100 Marshmallows Deal 6 cards to each player. Use any 4 of your cards to make two 2-digit numbers. (Aces = 1; Jacks, Queens, & Kings = WILD cards, DIRECTIONS: stand for any digit 0-9) Try to make a combination that when Do your best to complete as many of these summer math added is close to or exactly 100. activities as you can! Record your work in your math journal every 5 4 3 A 8 3 day. In August share your Math Journal with your third grade You combine 48 and 53 to make 101. Your score is 1 since the teacher. difference between 101 and 100 is 1. You make a recording sheet in your journal like this, Each journal entry should: Round 1: 48 + 53 = 101 Score 1 Have the date of the entry Have a clear and complete answer Put the cards you used in the discard pile. Keep the other two for Be neat and organized the next round. Pick up four more cards and play 5 rounds. Add the score to each round. The lowest score after 5 rounds wins. Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: th Other games to play: Checkers, Othello, Memory, Set, jigsaw July 5 Today I found 3 different ways to make $1.00. First I used puzzles, Parcheesi, Crazy Eights, Connect Four, Legos, K’Nex. 3-quarters, 2-dimes, and 1-nickel to total $1.00. Next I had 5-dimes, and 2-quarters and this also totaled $1.00. Finally I Fun Websites to Explore: had 2-quarters, 2-dimes, and 6-nickels. These are the three www.funbrain.com different ways I combined coins to make $1.00. www.setgame.com www.aplusmath.com www.multiplication.com www.pbskids.org www.mathplaygound.com www.illuminations.nctm.org June 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3 4 5 6 7 Last Day of School for Students

10 11 12 13 14 Play Hidden Picture Ask an adult to teach you a Addition card trick. Practice the trick and try it out on a www.aplusmath.com friend.

17 18 19 20 21 Plant a seed. Will it grow to Play a strategy game like Practice counting forward List the months of the year Put away the leftovers from be about 12 inches or 12 Othello or Checkers. Did and backwards by 2’s, 5”s in order starting with the Dinner, how do you make feet? How do you know? your strategy work? Will you and 10”s from any number. first month of the year decisions about the try a different strategy the Can you do it jumping on one containers you will use? next time you play? foot?

24 25 26 27 28 Find a flower with an odd Read Measuring Penny by Estimate how long it will Set the table for supper. Play Building Blocks Number of petals. Do all Loreen Leedy. take you to do 100 jumping Find the total number of www.mathplayground.com Find an animal real or jacks. Did it take more or plates, glasses, forks, flowers have the same stuffed to measure with less than 5 minutes? Record knives, and spoons. Draw a Describe how you see the number of petals? standard and non-standard your time and compare with picture of the table. shapes fitting together. measurement. a friend.

July 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Using sidewalk chalk write Take a bath or shower. Find at least 3 different You have 4 lollipops. 1 is Read Amanda Bean’s as many number facts you Find a way to measure how ways to make $1.00 using grape flavored. What Amazing Dream know in one minute. much water you use. Is it nickels, dimes, and fraction is grape flavored? By Cindy Neuschwander. more or less than 5 quarters. How do you know? Count all of the books in gallons? your house.

8 9 10 11 12 Make a rectangular prism Add the ages of all the Keep track of the Play Close to 100 100 is the answer, what using toothpicks and people who live in your temperature every day for (see directions) could the question possibly marshmallows. house. What is the sum? the week. Predict what will be? Challenge yourself to What other 3-D shapes be the high and low How does it help you to get think of more questions. can you make? temperatures for the week better at addition?

15 16 17 18 19 Write all the numbers from Explore one of the Play Compare Write down the years How long will it be to your 1- 100 by 3’s. What patterns recommended website (see directions) people who live with you birthday in days? Use a do you see? What math did you learn? were born. Put them in calendar to keep track. How does this help you to order from least to practice your facts? greatest. 22 23 24 25 26 Find 20 coins in your house. Write the numbers below in Read, Math for All Seasons Palindromes are numbers Play Hidden Picture What do they add up to? Is expanded form for. by Greg Tang. that are the same forward Subtraction it more or less than $3.00 (Ex. 583 = 500 +80 +3) Make up your own math and backwards (example 121) 729 846 295 riddle. Find a palindrome in real life. www.aplusmath.com

29 30 31 Flip a coin 10 times and 15 + 6 = 13 + If you start playing a game record your results. Flip the Copy this problem in your at 8 a.m. and play for 1 and a coin another 10 times. journal and fill in the blank. half hours, what time is it Compare the results What Explain how you got the when you’re done? do you notice? answer. How do you know?

August 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 Read, The Greedy Triangle Create a survey for favorite by Marilyn Burns. day of the week. Ask at least 20 people. Make a Follow along using toothpicks chart of the results. to make the polygons.

5 6 7 8 9 A can has the shape of a Use a grocery store flyer to Do a Sudoko puzzle in the What are three ways you Play Guess My Rule newspaper. can estimate what time it cylinder. Find and write plan a breakfast. List all the is other than using a www.mathplaygound.com down things in your house items you need and record clock? Use one way and having the shape of a the price of each item. How estimate the time, how Did you learn new math cylinder. much will breakfast cost? close are you? vocabulary?

12 13 14 15 16 Find something that is YOU DID IT! Please bring symmetrical. Draw all the your journal to your third lines of symmetry. grade teacher on the first day of school.

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Summer Literacy Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 4

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing literacy. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the literacy requirements, please sign and return this paper to the 4th grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

______Parent Signature Date

Just Read, Florida! 2013 Summer Recommended Reading List The Birchbark House, Erdrich, Louise Grades 4-5 The Black Stallion, Farley, Walter A Faraway Island, Thor, Annika The Last Egret: The Adventures of Charlie Pierce, Oyer III, Harvey E. A History of US, Hakim, Joy The Underneath, Appelt, Kathi A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Lin, Grace Home, Cole, Henry Whittington, Armstrong, Alan Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll, Lewis Who Has Seen the Wend? Christina G. Rossetti AQUIFERioius, Tolbert, Margaret Ross Zlateh the Goat, Isaac Bashevis Singer Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. MIAMI DADE READING LIST: GRADE 4 Marshal, Nelson, Because of Winn Dixie- Kate DiCamillo Vaunda Micheaux Bluish- Virginia Hamilton Bud, Not Buddy, Curtis, Christopher Paul Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It -Sandra T. Frazier Casey at the Bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer Bunnicula James & Deborah- Howe Criss Cross, Perkins, Lynne Rae Charlotte's Web- E.B. White Crossing Jordan, Fogelin, Adrian Dear Mr. Henshaw -Beverly Cleary Dare to Dream! Sommer, Carl Double Dutch- Sharon Draper Discovering Mars, Berger, Melvin Drita, My Homegirl- Jenny Lombard Do Not Open: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Best-Kept Secrets, Farndon, Federico Garcia Lorca -Georgina Lazaro John Gracias a Winn-Dixie- Kate DiCamillo Dog Diaries: Secret Writings of the WOOF Society, Byars, Betsy, Duffey, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup- Sharon Creech Betsy, and Myers, Hank Zipzer- Henry Winkler Laurie Night of the Howling Dogs -Graham Salisbury Eidi, Bredsdorff, Bodil No More Dead Dogs -Gordon Korman Elijah of Buxton, Curtis, Christopher Paul Project Mulberry- Linda Sue Park Extreme Pets! Harrington, Jane Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception Wendelin -Van Draamen Heroes for My Son, Meltzer, Brad Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing -Judy Blume Horses, Simon, Seymour The Gold Thread Dress -Carolyn Marsden Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms, Lauber, Patricia The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan Inside Out & Back Again, Lai, Thanhha The Million Dollar Kick -Dan Gutman Jason and Elihu, Mickle, Shelley Frazer The Onts (Dripping Fang series) Dan Greenburg Just Being Audrey, Cardillo, Margaret The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles) Tony DiTerlizzi Life Under Ice, Cerullo, Mary M. The Talented Clementine -Sara Pennypacker Princess Academy, Hale, Shannon The World Acording to Humphrey -Betty G. Barney Quest for the Tree Kangaroo, Montgomery, Sy Riddle-iculous Math, Holub, Joan Sarah, Plain and Tall, MacLachlan, Patricia See What You Can Be: Explore Careers That Could Be for You! Heiman,

Just Read, Florida! Office offers a variety of tips to consider when helping readers choose books: Grade 4 Below are a few websites that will provide reading levels for many of the Summer Literacy Ideas books listed in this packet. Please feel free to use one of these to find a reading level or use any similar tool that may be available to you. Read every day! Go online to the public library to find a great Librarians and teachers are also experts in helping pair students with program near you! appropriate books. --AR BookFinder: http://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx http://www.mdpls.org/ --Lexile Find a Book: http://www.lexile.com/search/filters/results/ --Scholastic Book Wizard: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ DIRECTIONS:  If a reader tackles a book above his or her reading level, consider Do your best to complete as many of these summer literacy what additional instruction or lower-level reading resources activities as you can! Record your work in your literacy journal every might help. day. In August share your Journal with your teacher.  Ask the reader to keep track of unknown words within the book, and look them up together. Each journal entry should:  Take turns reading aloud to each other to help process the -Have the date of the entry information into smaller portions. -Have a clear and complete sentence or summary -Be neat and organized Online eBook sites to investigate: Tumble Book Library - This is a great site for books for young children. Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: You will find a large selection of animated picture books that are read July 5th aloud. Today we read a book called ______. The author was ______. I did Children's E Books - A terrific site for young reader's from beginner to the activity on the calendar and I did the best on______. advanced. Story Online - This site is sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Feel free to use one of the book report forms to write about a book y our Foundation and it contains videos of famous actors reading stories. read that day as a journal. On Lion for Kids - This site allows you to download children's and young adult stories if you have their library card. Raising Readers - This PBS site allows you to read and listen to stories. Children's Books Online - The Rosetta Project- Contains a international collection of children's antique books. eBooks.com - Great site for young adults to purchase eBooks. Books are divided and listed by subject so it makes it easy to navigate.

June 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 4 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3 4 5 6 7 Last Day of School for Students

10 11 12 13 14 Visit a library. Get a Go in your card for your child. pantry/closet and Check out some read the labels on books. the food cans and boxes. Which is your favorite? See if you can make up a recipe out of 5 of the items. 17 18 19 20 21 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS WRITING Choose a new SIGHT WORDS MAKE INDEX Play sight word Write 3 recipe. Read it Use playdoh to CARDS bingo: Use post it paragraphs about together and have write your words. among squares to make a the beach. Draw a fun making it. animal board and bingo picture and label it. around markers to cover asked the words! became began

24 25 26 27 28 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS WRITING Start reading a READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Put your words in Write a story about story and stop Draw a picture of CARDS ABC ORDER. a pet using as many before the end. Ask your favorite page. bring of your sight words your child to Explain in writing build as you can. predict the ending. why this page is couldn’t your favorite. Add cried as many details as dinner you can to help the doing viewer visualize your page.

July 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 4 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Review Week! Play SIDEWALK Share memories of Surf the Internet Please review all CHALK sight a special 4th of July prior to, while, or your sight words! words! Write the holiday with your after reading a words using chalk child. HAPPY 4TH OF book to conduct and throw wet JULY! research about the sponges at the book, its author, or words until they its subject. Develop disappear! Once a log of your they are gone, see if findings. you can still spell it. 8 9 10 11 12 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS SIGHT WORDS Help your child READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Use magnetic Use a stopwatch to create a map of Draw a portrait of CARDS letters to spell time your child as your home. the main character draw words on a cookie he reads a stack of and write a one- dream sheet or on the sight word cards. sentence summary early refrigerator. Challenge to earth him to beat his accompany your easy time! sketch. everyone 15 16 17 18 19 SIGHT WORDS: Read a book under Play SIGHT WORD WRITING SIGHT WORDS MAKE INDEX your covers with a MEMORY! Cut words out of BEACH BALL CARDS flashlight before Have your child lay the newspaper. WORDS everything you go to sleep. the index cards on Arrange them on Section off a ball filled a table in rows, in a paper to make a into many squares front face down position. new sentence. with a marker. getting This game is played Each square houses group like Concentration, a sight word. having or Memory Match, Toss the ball to your child will be your child, who matching common recites the word words. under their right thumb. 22 23 24 25 26 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS Go for a walk today Play a game after READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX SKIP JUMP WORDS and try to find one reading the Read a nonfiction CARDS Using lighter item that begins directions together. book today and tell heart colored vinyl, cut with every letter of someone the most high out shapes, put a the alphabet. interesting fact you himself sight word on each discovered in your hurt one with a marker, reading. idea and tape them to inside the floor. Your child can jump from word to word, saying each word as they land.

29 30 31 SIGHT WORDS: Play SIGHT WORD WRITING MAKE INDEX GO FISH! Clip pictures in the CARDS Make a “deck” of newspaper. Ask instead cards using index your child to tell keep cards. you about the kids Make two cards picture or list killed with each adjectives to kind word on it. Play “Go describe the knew Fish” with the word picture. cards.

August 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 4 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 READ A BOOK SIGHT WORDS Read a story. Make WORD SCAVENGER puppets out of HUNT small paper bags. Hide sight words Put on a puppet around the room. show.

5 6 7 8 9 SIGHT WORDS: SIGHT WORDS READ A BOOK WRITING While driving in MAKE INDEX Challenge your Record your Have your child the car, see how CARDS child to find and children reading a write a note to a many signs you learn circle the sight book and friend or relative. know how to read. leave words he knows on replay it so that Be sure to mail it! List them all and letter a page of a they can listen to see if you can put listen newspaper or themselves. them into lived magazine. categories. lives 12 13 14 15 16 Review Week! SIGHT WORDS READ A BOOK Help your child WRITING Please review all Use a stopwatch to Read a poem. Now decorate a box. Put Make a Hello! Card your sight words! time your child as write a poem about it by the door to for your new he reads a stack of one of the hold homework teacher. Tell them sight word cards. characters from a and books. all the fun things Challenge story you read this you did this him to beat his summer. summer! time!

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Summer Math Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 4

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing math. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of math practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the math requirements, please sign and return this paper to the fourth grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

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Cool Math Books to Read: The $1.00 Word Riddle Book by Marilyn Burns Fraction Fun by David Adler The Best of Times by Greg Tang Grade 4 Pigs Will be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money by Amy Axelrod

Summer Math Ideas Games To Play (You will need a deck of cards)

Math Tools You’ll Need: 1. Multiplication War - Deal out all the cards equally between 2 Notebook for math journal or 3 players. Each player turns over 2 cards and multiplies the Pencil numbers together. The person with the higher product wins the Dice pile of cards. If you have the same product repeat the procedure. Crayons Winner takes all the cards. Regular deck of playing cards 2. Close to 1000 - Deal 8 cards to each player. Use any 6 of your DIRECTIONS: cards to make two 3-digit numbers. Try to get a sum that is close Do your best to complete as many of these summer math to or equal to 1000. Write these 2 numbers in your journal. Your activities as you can! Record your work in your math journal every score is the difference between your number and 1000. day. In August share your Math Journal with your fourth grade teacher. Example: Your eight cards are 1, 5, 4, 3, 1, 8, 3, 8 You can combine 148 + 853 + 1001. Your score is 1 since the Each journal entry should: difference between 1001 and 1000 is 1. Discard the 6 used cards Have the date of the entry and pick 6 new cards. Whoever has the lowest total score after 5 Have a clear and complete answer rounds wins the game. Be neat and organized Other games to play: Monopoly, Othello, Battleship, Connect Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: Four, Mastermind, Mancala, Legos, K’Nex, Simon, Yahtzee th July 5 Today I went outside to play at 9:35 a.m. and came in at Fun Websites to Explore: 12:05 p.m. I was outside for a total of 90 minutes. This can www.funbrain.com also be written as 1 hour and 30 minutes, or 1½ hours. www.figurethis.org www.aplusmath.com www.setgame.com www.illuminations.nctm.org

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10 11 12 13 14 Play the game Close to 1000. How many different ways (see directions) can you make $3.25? How many quarters can you have if you have $3.25 in quarters?

17 18 19 20 21 Practice math facts in a fun Look at how probability is Play a game. What strategy Play the Product Game at Draw a design that has way at the website used every day, such as did you use? Would you use www.illuminations.nctm.org symmetry. www.multiplication.com weather reports. Make a list the same strategy again? of things that could: never Record the strategy that What games did you play? happen, might happen, and you used. are sure to happen. 24 25 26 27 28 Make a data table to record Write a story problem that What cars are parked on Read The Best of Times By Play Chairs at the high temperature for can be solved using the your street? Create a table Greg Tang. Make a set of www.illuminations.nctm.org the next 7 days starting number sentence 9 x 3 = of the make of cars parked flash cards and practice the today. ______. on our street (ex. Honda, multiplication facts. If you have 8 tables, what’s Ford…) the greatest number of people you can seat in a line?

July 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 4 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Play a strategy game. What How many different ways Is there a street parallel to Figure your age in months. Roll 2 dice and multiply to strategy did you use? Would can you make $1.00 using your street? Look on a map find the product. Record the you use it again? quarters, nickels, and dimes? and find 2 streets that are products. Do this 25 times. parallel and 2 streets that Create a bar graph with the are perpendicular to each results. What do you notice? other. 8 9 10 11 12 Read Pigs Will be Pigs: Fun Ask family and friends what Try a new game at Read Fraction Fun By David Go to the website with Math and Money by their favorite summer www.funbrain.com Challenge Adler. Which is larger, 2/3 www.setgame.com Play and Amy Axelrod. Get a menu activity is. Use a tally chart yourself. or ¾? How do you know? enter to win a prize! from a restaurant and add to collect your data. Make a Prove it. up what it would cost for graph of your choice to show your family to eat there. the results. 15 16 17 18 19 Gather 3 store receipts. Count the change an adult Choose one activity for a Draw a picture that only Find 4 numbers larger than Find the total amount that has this morning. Count the day and record the start and uses geometric shapes. 1,000 in a newspaper. Put was spent. change an adult has this stop time. Calculate the Identify as many shapes as them in order from least to evening. What’s the elapsed time for the possible. greatest. What is the difference? activity. (ex. time you wake difference between the up and go to sleep) . smallest and the largest? 22 23 24 25 26 Play Concentration at Select ten items from a Play a game. What strategy Write multiplication and How many hours did you www.illuminations.nctm.org grocery flyer and find the did you use? Would you use division combinations for 6, sleep last night? Bedtime: Choose cards: fractions total cost of the items. the same strategy again? 7, and 42. Can you write a ______Wake games: face down Draw Calculate how much change word problem to go with time______pictures that represent you would receive from a one these equations? some fractions. hundred dollar bill. 29 30 31 Write a word problem whose Write a schedule for tomorrow A farmer has chickens and answer is 12. Have someone that includes the hours and cows. What combination of solve the problem. Choose minutes of your activities. animals could total 24 legs? Is another answer and make up a there more than one problem. combination?

August 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 4 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 Play Multiplication War. Use the flash cards that you (see directions) made, and practice your multiplication facts. 5 6 7 8 9 Family fun! Go on a road trip. Try a new activity at Read The $1.00 Word Riddle You went shopping with a $5 Plan a meal for your family. Write down the miles on the www.coolmath4kids.com Book by Marilyn Burns. What bill and spent $2.40. Is your With an adult, make a list of odometer when you leave. Challenge yourself is your name worth? What is change more or less than 40 the ingredients, go shopping, Write down the miles when the most expensive word you dimes? Prove your answer. and then follow the recipes. you get home. How many can make? miles did you travel? 12 13 14 15 16 Have a scavenger hunt for YOU DID IT! Please bring real-world examples of right your journal to your fourth angles (ex. the corner of a grade teacher on the first book) day of school!

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Summer Literacy Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 5

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing literacy. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the literacy requirements, please sign and return this paper to the 5th grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

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Just Read, Florida! 2013 Summer Recommended Reading List The Birchbark House, Erdrich, Louise Grades 4-5 The Black Stallion, Farley, Walter A Faraway Island, Thor, Annika The Last Egret: The Adventures of Charlie Pierce, Oyer III, Harvey E. A History of US, Hakim, Joy The Underneath, Appelt, Kathi A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Lin, Grace Home, Cole, Henry Whittington, Armstrong, Alan Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll, Lewis Who Has Seen the Wend? Christina G. Rossetti AQUIFERioius, Tolbert, Margaret Ross Zlateh the Goat, Isaac Bashevis Singer Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, Nelson, MIAMI DADE SCHOOLS LIST: Grade 5 Vaunda Micheaux A Light in the Attic -Shel Silverstein Bud, Not Buddy, Curtis, Christopher Paul Adam Canfield of the Slash-Michael Winerip Casey at the Bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer Artemis Fowl- Eoin Colfer Criss Cross, Perkins, Lynne Rae Azúcar Ivar-Da Coll Crossing Jordan, Fogelin, Adrian Bloomability -Sharon Creech Dare to Dream! Sommer, Carl Chasing the Falconer -Gordon Korman Discovering Mars, Berger, Melvin Esperanza Rising -Pam Munoz Ryan Do Not Open: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Best-Kept Secrets, Farndon, Experanza Renace -Pam Munoz Ryan John Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet Sheeri Smith Fiction Dog Diaries: Secret Writings of the WOOF Society, Byars, Betsy, Duffey, How Tia Lola Came to Visit/Stay -Julia Alvarez Betsy, and Myers, Little House on the Prairie -Laura Ingalls Wilder Laurie Phineas L. MacGuire-Erupts -F. O. Dowell Eidi, Bredsdorff, Bodil Poppy -Avi Elijah of Buxton, Curtis, Christopher Paul Scat -Carl Hiaasen Extreme Pets! Harrington, Jane Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Series) Anthony Horowitz Heroes for My Son, Meltzer, Brad The City of Ember -Jeanne DuPrau Horses, Simon, Seymour The Ghost Grave -Peg Kehert Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms, Lauber, Patricia The Kingdon Keepers -Ridley Pearson Inside Out & Back Again, Lai, Thanhha Tuck Everlasting- Natalie Babbitt Jason and Elihu, Mickle, Shelley Frazer Yo, Naomi Leon -Pam Munoz Ryan Just Being Audrey, Cardillo, Margaret Life Under Ice, Cerullo, Mary M. Princess Academy, Hale, Shannon Quest for the Tree Kangaroo, Montgomery, Sy Riddle-iculous Math, Holub, Joan Sarah, Plain and Tall, MacLachlan, Patricia See What You Can Be: Explore Careers That Could Be for You! Heiman,

Just Read, Florida! Office offers a variety of tips to consider when helping readers choose books: Grade 5 Below are a few websites that will provide reading levels for many of the Summer Literacy Ideas books listed in this packet. Please feel free to use one of these to find a reading level or use any similar tool that may be available to you. Read every day! Go online to the public library to find a great Librarians and teachers are also experts in helping pair students with program near you! appropriate books. --AR BookFinder: http://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx http://www.mdpls.org/ --Lexile Find a Book: http://www.lexile.com/search/filters/results/ --Scholastic Book Wizard: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ DIRECTIONS:  If a reader tackles a book above his or her reading level, consider Do your best to complete as many of these summer literacy what additional instruction or lower-level reading resources activities as you can! Record your work in your literacy journal every might help. day. In August share your Journal with your teacher.  Ask the reader to keep track of unknown words within the book, and look them up together. Each journal entry should:  Take turns reading aloud to each other to help process the -Have the date of the entry information into smaller portions. -Have a clear and complete sentence or summary -Be neat and organized Online eBook sites to investigate: Tumble Book Library - This is a great site for books for young children. Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: You will find a large selection of animated picture books that are read July 5th aloud. Today we read a book called ______. The author was ______. I did Children's E Books - A terrific site for young reader's from beginner to the activity on the calendar and I did the best on______. advanced. Story Online - This site is sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Feel free to use one of the book report forms to write about a book that Foundation and it contains videos of famous actors reading stories. you read that day as a journal. On Lion for Kids - This site allows you to download children's and young adult stories if you have their library card. Raising Readers - This PBS site allows you to read and listen to stories. Children's Books Online - The Rosetta Project- Contains a international collection of children's antique books. eBooks.com - Great site for young adults to purchase eBooks. Books are divided and listed by subject so it makes it easy to navigate

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10 11 12 13 14 Visit a library. READ A BOOK Get a card for Pick the most important your child. word/line/image/object/event Check out some in the chapter and explain books. why you chose it. Be sure to support your choice with examples. 17 18 19 20 21 VOCABULARY: VOCABULARY WRITING Choose a new VOCABULARY MAKE INDEX Play bingo: Use You are the recipe. Read it Make a column for each of the CARDS: list the post it squares reporter. Write a together and prefixes. List as many words meanings of the to make a board front page news have fun making as you can that use that prefix prefix/suffix: and bingo story or a report it. in them. Prefix markers to live from the Aero cover the words! scene from your auto book. bio chron cycl gen geo 24 25 26 27 28 VOCABULARY: VOCABULARY WRITING Look through READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Put your words Write a story magazines for Choose a character. Write CARDS: list the in ABC ORDER about a pet words and whether or not you would meanings of the using as many of pictures that want him/her for a sibling, prefix/suffix: your sight describe your parent, or friend, (choose one) graph words as you book. Use and why. homo can. these to create a hydr collage on a ism bookmark. ist log

July 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 5 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Review Week! Play SIDEWALK Share memories of Surf the Internet Please review all CHALK a special 4TH OF prior to, while, or your VOCABULARY VOCABULARY July holiday with after reading a words! words! Write the your child. HAPPY 4TH OF book to words using chalk JULY! conduct research and throw wet about the book, its sponges at the author, or its words until they subject. Develop a disappear! Once log of your they are gone, see if findings. you can still spell it. 8 9 10 11 12 VOCABULARY: VOCABULARY VOCABULARY Help your child READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX Use magnetic Use a stopwatch to create a map of Draw a portrait of CARDS: list the letters to spell time your child as your home. the main character meanings of the words on a cookie he reads a stack of and write a one- prefix/suffix: sheet or on the sight word cards. sentence summary mech refrigerator. Challenge to meter him to beat his accompany your nym time! sketch. -ology path phobia

15 16 17 18 19 VOCABULARY: Read a book under Play VOCABULARY WRITING VOCABULARY MAKE INDEX your covers with a MEMORY! Cut words out of BEACH BALL CARDS: list the flashlight before Have your child lay the newspaper. WORDS meanings of the you go to sleep. the index cards on Arrange them on Section off a ball prefix/suffix: a table in rows, in a paper to make new into many squares phone face down position. sentences. with a marker. photo This game is played Each square houses poli like Concentration, a sight word. phys or Memory Match, Toss the ball to psych your child will be your child, who soph matching common recites the word therm words. under their right tele thumb.

22 23 24 25 26 VOCABULARY: VOCABULARY Go for a walk today Play a game after READ A BOOK MAKE INDEX SKIP JUMP WORDS and try to find one reading the Read a nonfiction CARDS: list the Using lighter item that begins directions together. book today and tell meanings of the colored vinyl, cut with every letter of someone the most prefix/suffix: out shapes, put a the alphabet. interesting fact you able/ible sight word on each discovered in your sect one with a marker, reading. ance/ence and tape them to sens the floor. Your child audi can jump from sign word to word, saying each word as they land.

29 30 31 VOCABULARY: Play VOCABULARY WRITING MAKE INDEX GO FISH! Clip pictures in the CARDS: list the Make a “deck” of newspaper. Ask meanings of the cards using index your child to tell prefix/suffix: cards you about the Make two cards picture or list agri with each adjectives to spect word on it. Play “Go describe the aqua Fish” with the word picture. temp cards. cap

August 2013 Summer Literacy Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 5 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 READ A BOOK VOCABULARY Read a story. Make WORD SCAVENGER puppets out of HUNT small paper bags. Hide sight words Put on a puppet around the room. show.

5 6 7 8 9 VOCABULARY: VOCABULARY READ A BOOK WRITING While driving in MAKE INDEX Challenge your Record your Have your child the car, see how CARDS: list the child to find and children reading a write a note to a many signs you meanings of the circle the sight book and friend or relative. know how to read. prefix/suffix: words he knows on replay it so that Be sure to mail it! List them and put dent a page of a they can listen to them into similar tract newspaper or themselves. categories. dict magazine urb form 12 13 14 15 16 Review Week! VOCABULARY READ A BOOK Build a miniature WRITING Please review all Use a stopwatch to Read a poem. Write stage setting of a Make a Hello! Card your VOCABULARY time your child as a poem about one scene in the book. for your new words! he reads a stack of of the characters in Include a written teacher. Tell them sight word cards. your book. explanation of the all the fun things Challenge scene. you did this him to beat his summer! time!

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Summer Math Learning Packet

Students Entering Grade 5

Student Accountability The intention is that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day, 4 to 5 times a week, practicing math. Your child should aim to complete at least 200 minutes of math practice over the course of the summer. When your child has completed the math requirements, please sign and return this paper to the fifth grade teacher with his/her journal on August 19, 2013.

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Cool Math Books to Read: Counting on Frank by Rod Clement Grade 5 A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School by Louis Sachar Summer Math Ideas Divide and Ride by Stuart Murphy Lemonade for Sale by Stuart Murphy Math Tools You’ll Need: Notebook for math journal Games To Play (You will need a deck of cards) Coins Pencil 1. Multiplication Compare Dice Remove all the face cards from a deck of cards. The ace will Crayons equal 1. Deal out the cards equally between 2 to 3 players. Each Regular deck of playing cards player turns over 2 cards and multiplies the numbers together. The person with the highest product wins all the cards. DIRECTIONS: Do your best to complete as many of these summer math Challenge: each person gets 4 cards and multiplies a 2-digit number activities as you can! Record your work in your math journal every by a two-digit number. day. In August share your Math Journal with your fifth grade teacher. 2. Close to 1000 Deal 8 cards to each player. Use any 6 cards to make two 3-digit Each journal entry should: numbers. Try to make the sum close to or exactly 1000. For ex. Have the date of the entry You combine 148 and 853 to make 1001. Your score is 1 because Have a clear and complete answer the difference between 1001 and 1000 is 1. The lowest score Be neat and organized after five rounds wins!

Here is an example of a “Great” journal entry: Other games to play: Monopoly, Othello, Battleship, Connect th Four, Mastermind, Mancala, Legos, K’Nex, Simon, Yahtzee July 5 Today I looked at the weather section of the newspaper and recorded the predicted high temperature for the next Fun Websites to Explore: 5 days: 82, 88, 90, 76, 81. I rearranged the data from the http://www.funbrain.com least to greatest number, then found 82 to be the middle http://www.setgame.com value, which is the median temperature. http://www.aplusmath.com http://www.multiplication.com http://www.coolmath4kids.com http://www.mathplayground.com http://www.illuminations.nctm.org

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10 11 12 13 14 Visit the website Read Lemonade for Sale www.multiplication.com By Stuart Murphy. Choose some activities to Make a graph, by days of have fun practicing the week of the number of multiplication. Record dogs you see each day. choices.

17 18 19 20 21 Play the game Close to 1000. Make a set of flash cards of Look at weather in the paper Play the Product Game at Identify and classify angles: (see directions) multiplication facts. Practice across the nation. Look at www.illuminations.nctm.org acute (less than 90°) obtuse your facts with a friend. the highest temperature and (greater than 90° ), right the lowest temperature, Record the strategy that (90°) in everyday things What is the difference you used. (buildings, bridges, between them? furniture…) 24 25 26 27 28 Write down the names and Use 8 straight lines. How Go to the website Read Divide and Ride by Play Multiplication Compare. prices of 5 cars you find in can you make 4 triangles and www.setgame.com Stuart Murphy. How can 13 (see directions) the newspaper. Order the 2 squares? Play and enter to win a prize! children be arranged on a prices from least to park ride that seats 2, 3, 4, greatest. Round the prices 5? How many kids are left to the nearest thousand. waiting?

July 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 5 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Play a strategy game. What Make a paper airplane and PLAY BASEBALL at Find the area of your Write down the numbers you strategy did you use? Would fly it. Measure how far it bedroom floor. What room in see on 2 license plates. you use it again? goes. Try a few times. www.funbrain.com your house could have twice Create 4 math problems Record distances in your the area of your bedroom? with these numbers. journal Half the area of your room? Check. 8 9 10 11 12 Read A Grain of Rice by Visit the game room at Make a dollar with 50 coins. As of today, record the Use a newspaper or Helena Pittman. Calculate www.aplusmath.com What coins did you use? How Wins and Losses of the weather.com and record the how many grains of rice she many of each? Miami Marlins this season. forecasted high will receive on day 18. Record what you played. Estimate the Wins and temperatures for the next 5 How many will she have Losses at the end of the days. What is the median altogether? season. Explain your thinking for your data? to an adult. 15 16 17 18 19 Play a game. What strategy did Would you rather have your Visit the website Draw a design using symmetry. Estimate the following in you use? Would you use that height be made of a stack of www.mathplayground.com and inches: your height; length of strategy again? nickels or quarters, lined up end play the logic games. your foot; distance from your to end? How much would you be elbow to the tip of your little worth? How did you do? finger. Measure to see how close you are. 22 23 24 25 26 Find a graph in the Play Close to 1000. Play Concentration at Vowels are worth $50 each, Place a plastic bowl on the floor newspaper or on the computer. (see directions) www.illuminations.nctm.org consonants are worth $40. Can and stand 20 steps away. Toss a Cut and paste it into your Choose: fractions, face down. you make a word worth exactly coin in the bowl and record how journal. Write 3 statements Draw pictures that represent $200? $600? many times it lands inside it. about the graph. some fractions. Express this as a fraction. Repeat. 29 30 31 Play Fraction Game at Measure the perimeter of two Flip a coin 25 times. Make a tally www.illuminations.nctm.org How different windows in your home. chart for how many times it lands many moves did it take to get all Find the difference of the on heads or tails. Write a fraction the red markers to the right side? perimeters. for your head and tail data. Try it Can you beat your score? again. Were the results the same? August 2013 Summer Math Learning Calendar for Students Entering Grade 5 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 Write a word problem whose List some capital letters (E, answer is 154. Have someone F…) that have one pair of solve the problem. parallel lines. Are there any that have two pair of parallel lines?

5 6 7 8 9 Make the largest and Try a new activity at Survey 10 friends or Go on a 3-D scavenger hunt. Play the Product Game at smallest numbers you can www.coolmath4kids.com relatives How many cylinders, www.illuminations.nctm.org find using the digits 4, 1, 7, to find out their favorite pyramids, cubes, rectangular Record the strategy that 8, and 2. Find their Challenge yourself. What did outdoor activity. Graph the prisms and cones can you you used. difference and sum. you choose to do? results. find today? Organize your data. 12 13 14 15 16 Have a scavenger hunt for YOU DID IT! Please bring real-world examples of your journal to your fifth parallel lines (ex. railroad grade teacher on the first tracks) day of school!

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