Suggested summer Homework

Kensington Hall

Grade 6 During the summer you might want to …

…take your children to ’s Cultural Center. Within a few blocks you have the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Museum of African-American History, the Detroit Science Center, the Detroit Historical Museum (two great exhibits currently on display: “1920s-Detroit’s Building Boom” and “Detroit’s Classic Radio Voices”), the Detroit Children’s Museum, the Scarab Club and the main branch of the Detroit Public Library. While in the neighborhood you can visit St. Paul’s Cathedral (Episcopalian) and have a nice lunch at Union Street, or at the Majestic Café which is attached to the Majestic Theatre (the site of Harry Houdini’s last performance.)

…take your children to Belle Isle and watch the freighters go by. On the island (where the Grand Prix will be run) you can stop at the Dossin Maritime Museum (there is a great exhibit there currently…), or the Belle Isle Conservatory. Stop at Pewabic Pottery while you are in the neighborhood and drive through Indian Village.

…go to Detroit’s River Walk- a three-mile walkway along the . You can see a map of the world outside of the Renaissance Center’s Winter Garden; see the statues that commemorate the Underground Railroad.

…travel to Mexicantown for a great meal.

…get up early on a Saturday morning and go to a farmer’s market at Detroit’s Eastern Market, or in Royal Oak, or Pontiac.

…take advantage of the largest theatre district outside of New York---including the Fisher Theatre, The Fox, The Gem, The Music Hall and others.

…do a tour of Detroit’s great architecture like the Fisher Building, The Guardian Building, the Penobscot, and the Masonic Temple (the largest Masonic Temple in the world.)

…the in Royal Oak is a great place to visit.

…head to Dearborn and tour the Arab-American Museum.

…visit Detroit’s Motown Museum.

…go to The Henry Ford at Greenfield Village, the Rouge Plant Tour, or the Holocaust Memorial (for older students).

… a little farther afield there are science museums in Ann Arbor (The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum) and Toledo (COSI). Ann Arbor boasts the Arboretum and Toledo also has a fine art museum.

… explore Frankenmuth.

…stay at home and play “Rice Bowl” on the computer. The program builds vocabulary while players earn rice for developing countries. Grade 6 Summer Reading

Each student should read a minimum of 25 minutes per evening this summer. Boys have learned to play various sports and work diligently to improve their athletic skills. These skills include shooting foul shots, throwing and hitting a baseball, catching and throwing a lacrosse ball, volleying a tennis ball, hitting a golf ball, I could go on and on. Reading is an acquired skill, and in order to master the skill, readers must practice on a daily basis. Even when the skill is mastered, it must be practiced in order to maintain the mastery.

Reading interests vary by personality. I recommend that students choose what they read because they generally know what they like. If your son enjoys reading Popular Mechanics or Sports Illustrated, that’s great. When I was that age I was an avid reader and collector of S. I. and Mad Magazine. If he is not “a reader,” we will work to change that. Let him read whatever he chooses (within reason), even comic books. Comics use dialogue very well, they are very visual, and they are always action packed. They are also quick reads. (It’s nice to finish what you start). My favorite, to this day, is Spiderman.

Do something every day that you have never done before, and have a great time doing it.

A Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park Artemis Fowl (series), Eoin Colfer Bean, Kevin Brooks Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis Dave at Night, Gail Carson Levine Far North, Will Hobbs Honus & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure, Dan Gutman House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer King Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory Maximum Ride Series, James Patterson Muhammad Ali, Walter Dean Myers My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George Next Man Up, John Feinstein Onion John, Joseph Krumgold Phineas Gage, A gruesome but True Story; John Fleischman Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe The Anthony Horowitz Collection, Anthony Horowitz The Gary Paulsen Collection, Gary Paulsen The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien The J.K. Rowling Collection, J.K. Rowling The Jack London Collection, Jack London The Jery Spinelli Collection, Jerry Spinelli The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis Grade 6 Summer Reading

The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, S.E. Hinton The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, Hugh Lofting Treasure Island; Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson Vampire Plagues, Sebastian Brooke Where the Red Grows, Wilson Rawls Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo

All titles have been read and recommended by sixth grade boys. I would recommend that boys read Gary Paulsen before reading Jack London. J.R.R. Tolkien can be a difficult read for some, but if a parent read Tolkien at bed time… The classic literature listed here is what former students have found most readable for them.

Incoming 6th Grade Math and Science Skills

6th Grade Math students should be able to: o Add, subtract, multiply, divide, and compare: . whole numbers . fractions . decimals o You should be able to work with percents and convert from percents to decimals to fractions o Find area and perimeter of 2-dimensionsal figures o Factors, Proper factors, multiples, GCF, and LCM o Work with coordinate graphs o Round whole numbers and decimals

I have made a packet of questions to help review these skills.

Science Ideas for Summer: We will be studying life science in the coming school year. Here are some ideas to help prepare: If you go anywhere there is water, get a water sample and bring it to school when the year begins. We will be looking at it under the microscope. Try to get some muck in the sample!

Go to a Zoo (especially the Detroit Zoo)

Go to the Detroit Science Center

Go to Cranbrook Science Center

Watch Animal Planet (parent approved shows only)

Keep a record of anything you do (in a note book) to share when you return.

Name ______Coming to 6th Grade Math Review All of the following items should be a review of concepts you have covered in 5th grade or before. It is recommended that you do about ten problems each week to spread the work out. The more you practice, the better you become, just like in sports. You must show all work. A calculator is not allowed. If you are struggling to remember how to do a question, feel free to email me at: [email protected] Solve. 1. 5,473 – 4,266 = 2. 562 + 988 =

3. 5,782 + 3,491 + 69 = 4. 98,234 – 998 =

5. 902 X 208 = 6. 22 8,030

7. 2.37 + 82.9 = 8. 99 – 0.99 =

9. 5.34 ÷ 0.4 = 10. 0.88 X 33 =

Mixed Numbers <-> Improper Fractions 2 1 11. 1 12. 15 3 3

13. 15 14. 23 3 8

Put these fractions in lowest terms.

15. 5 16. 12 10 48

Solve.

1 2 112 2 5 17. 4 5 18. 13 6

5 3 2 1 5 19. 8 5 20. 4 6

4 2 21. 22. 2 6 13 5 3 7 4

3 1 23. 24. 1 1 4 2 8 2 3 5

25. Find the GCF (Greatest Common Factor) a. 15= b. 45= 12= 30=

26. Find the LCM (Least Common Multiple) a. 8= b. 15= 10= 12=

27. Plot the following points and label: a. (0,5) b. (-3,9) c. (-5,-1) d. (7,-4) e. (10,8) f. (-7,-7)

28. Perimeter = Area =

29. Perimeter = Area =

30. Perimeter = Area=

31. What is the sum of the angles?

< sum =

Number Fraction Decimal Percent 32. 2 5 33. 0.08 34. 2% 35. 0.05%

Answer only to go to hundredths place.

36. Diameter = Circumference = Area =

37. Radius = Circumference = Area =

38. Diameter = Radius = Circumference =

39. Diameter = Radius = Area =

Order of Operations.

40. 15 + 23 + 10 x 3 = 41. 5 x 3 + 4 x 5 =

42. 5 + 6 + (7 + 2) x 3 = 43. 82 + 6 + 2 x 3 =

Greater Than/Less Than/ Equal Too

44. 5 3 45. 3 6 8 □ 5 5 □10

46. 0.54 0.054 47. 0.55 1 □ □ 2

48. 0.1234 1 49. 2 0.6 □ 3 □

50. 45 9 x 5 51. 0.02 1 □ □ 2

52. Find four fractions between 1 and 2 (Hint: find a much larger common 2 3 denominator)

Factors (Example 12 = 1,2,3,4,6,12)

53. 6 =

54. 26 =

Proper Factors (Example 12 = 1,2,3,4,6)

55. 10 =

56. 15 =

Multiples (Go to around 100) (Example 12 = 12,24,36,48,60,72,84,96)

57. 8 =

58. 13 =

Percentages. Hint: You can think of these like decimal multiplication. You know percent mean part of 100, so multiply the whole number times the decimal that is equal to the percent (example 20% = 0.20)

59. 10% of 50 60. 20% of 80

61. 20% of 65 62. 30% of 30

63. 49% of 151 64. 13% of 49

65. 24% of 319 66, 34% of 175

67. Area = Perimeter =

68. Area = Perimeter =

Write the following in number form:

69. One hundred eight and five hundredths

Write the following in word form

70. 108,108,008.0005 71. 9,385.639

Round to the underlined place value:

72. 0.8435 = 73. 9.872 =

74. 863.25 = 75. 9.99998 =

76. Use the circle to make a spinner with six sections. Make it equally likely for the spinner to land on each section. Label each section with the number if degrees it represents. (Remember that there are 360 in a circle.)

77. Herman is tossing a bean bag randomly onto this game mat:

A B A C A B B C

. What is the probability of a bean bag landing on an area marked A?

. What is the probability of a bean bag landing on an area marked B?

. What is the probability of a bean bag landing on an area marked C?

78. A gumball machine contains orange, yellow, and purple gumballs. The probability of getting orange is ¾ and yellow is 1/6.

. What is the probability of getting a purple gumball?

. What is the fewest gumballs that could be in the machine?

. If there are 36 gumballs, how many are orange, yellow, and purple? Orange = ______Yellow = ______Purple = ______

Spanish Suggested Summer Work

-Eat at a Mexican, Spanish, Cuban, or other Spanish speaking country restaurant. Be adventurous and try a new dish. Also, use your Spanish to greet the waiter, say "por favor" and "gracias"; and try to order in Spanish.

- Watch half an hour of Spanish movies and/or tv shows in Spanish every week. Remember all DVD's have the language option. Listen for the words you know.

-Visit Mexican Town on Bagley St. in downtown Detroit for lunch and check out the shops that sell authentic souvenirs.

-Practice the "Padre Nuestro" prayer and pledge. If you need help or just a re-fresher go to Sra. Pastrone's Wiki space to listen to these and other helpful items at: http://pastronewiki.wikispaces.com/