First Grade Summer Assignment List One of the most important things you can do for your child is to get in the habit of reading to or listening to them read aloud each night. The summer is a perfect time to do this!

Suggestions for Great Read-Aloud Books My Lucky Day Keiko Kasza Summer Assignment Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Don’t forget to practice your math facts using The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Mathletics at https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura Numeroff and practice your language arts skills by using All the Colors of the Earth Shelia Hamanaka i-Ready at https://login.i-ready.com/. Silly Sally Audrey Wood Kitten’s First Full Moon Kevin Henkes All current students have a username and password. Ten Red Apples Pat Hutchins New students will be assigned a login when school In the Small, Small Pond Denise Fleming begins.

There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Mercer Mayer Access to Destiny

Authors for Fictional Reading Parents can access Destiny to look up books in our Frank Asch Audrey Wood Media Center. To access Destiny, go to: Margaret Wise Brown Eric Carle http://aca.follettdestiny.com. Mo Willems Denise Fleming Leo Lionni Mercer Mayer Accelerated Reader List Laura Numeroff Dr. Seuss To find out if books are on the Accelerated Reader List, go to: http://www.arbookfind.com. Geisel Award Winning Books for Beginning Readers You are (Not) Small Anna Kang Waiting is Not Easy! Mo Willems Mr. Putter and Tabby Cynthia Rylant Turn the Page

Suggestions for Non-Fiction Reading Sports Biography series Bob Kirkpatrick Our Animal World series Heather Adamson Historical Figure series Pamela Walker Animal Detectives series Rosie Albright

Suggestions for Independent Readers Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne Nate the Great Majorie Weinman Sharmat Cam Jansen David A. Adler A to Z Mysteries Ron Roy George and Martha series James Marshall

Second Grade Summer Assignment List

Fiction Summer Assignment The Day the Crayons Quit Drew Daywalt Get Ready for Second Grade Amber Brown Don’t forget to practice your math facts using Officer Buckle and Gloria Peggy Rathmann Mathletics at Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver and practice your language arts skills by using i-Ready Jigsaw Jones mysteries James Preller at https://login.i-ready.com/. Horrible Harry series Ready, Freddy! series All current students have a username and password. Mercy Watson series New students will be assigned a login when school Nate the Great series begins. Cam Jansen series Boxcar Children series Frog and Toad series Magic Tree House series Math Facts A to Z Mysteries series Marvin Redpost series Additional skills to review over the summer would be basic addition and subtraction facts. In second grade, Non-Fiction The Magic School Bus series we assess the students weekly on their speed and National Geographic Readers series accuracy of the basic math facts. Time for Kids biographies Animals at Risk series Michael Portman Reading Information Butterflies series Nic Bishop Let’s-Read-and-Find Science 2 series Franklyn Branley As you know, each child’s reading levels develop at Junior Buddy series Juliana Hatkoff, different rates. Some of these titles or authors may Isabella Hatkoff and Craig Hatkoff seem too easy or too difficult for your child. Please Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? Roberta Edwards encourage your child to read this summer by (and other books in this series) choosing appropriate reading material and read as Hungry Plants Mary Batten much as possible together. If your child picks a book (and other Step-Into-Reading Step 3 and 4) you think may be too hard, have him/her read a full page aloud to you. If there are five or more mistakes Religion while reading, the book is probably too difficult. If If Jesus Came to My House Joan G. Thomas there are less than five errors, the book should be appropriate. Read as many books as you can this You Are Special Max Lucado summer. Please read both fiction and nonfiction What is God Like? Beverly Lewis books. All children will be using the Accelerated

Reader Program in Second Grade. Math Tyrannosaurus Math Michelle Markel A Very Improbable Story: A Math Adventure Edward Einhorn Full House: An Invitation to Fractions Dayle Ann Dodds

Third Grade Summer Assignment List

Fiction Books Sloppy Copy Slipup D. DiSalvo Summer Assignment Roxie and the Hooligans P. Naylor Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco J. Repka Don’t forget to practice your math facts using The Incredible Book Eating Boy O. Jeffers Mathletics at The Quest Begins (Seekers, Book 1) E. Hunter https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student and practice your language arts skills by using i-Ready One Well: The Story of Water on Earth R. Strauss at https://login.i-ready.com/. Tales for Very Picky Eaters Josh Schneider

Waiting for the Magic PatriciaMacLachan All current students have a username and password. Wild River P.J. Petersen New students will be assigned a login when school Jake and Lily Jerry Spinelli begins. Gone Fishing Tamara Wissinger Flora and Ulysses Kate DiCamillo Reading Information

Waiting for the Magic Patricia MacLachan As part of your summer assignments, we hope you will Wild River P.J. Petersen enjoy selecting books from this list to read over the Jake and Lily Jerry Spinelli summer. We have attempted to include books that Gone Fishing Tamera Wissinger cover a wide range of subject matter and themes, both Timmy Failure series Stephen Pastis fiction and non-fiction. Many of the fiction books are Calvin Coconut series Graham Salisbury about issues that are important to 3rd graders, such as Emily Windsnap series Liz Kessler friendship, school, sports, and family.

Whatever After series Sarah Mlynowski We will be reading several non-fiction books, and Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel series Nikki Grimes students will need to be familiar with the features of I Survived series Lauren Tarshis this genre. Try to find something you have never read Any books by Beverly Cleary to enjoy! Each new third grader must read 2 books Any books by Roald Dahl that he/she has not previously read from this list, one Any books by Matt Christopher fiction and one non-fiction, of their choice. We will be Non-Fiction Books using these books for activities the first few weeks of school. Change It! Solids, Liquids, Gases & You Mason

Changing Forms Peter Riley Have a great summer, and keep on reading! Changing Materials Chris Oxlade Me…Jane Mc Donnell Just Behave, Pablo Picasso! Winter & Hawkes Ron’s Big Mission, Rose Blue Naden & Tate Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 Brian Floca Here Come the Girl Scouts! Corey & Hooper Balloons over Broadway Melissa Sweet The Noisy Paintbox Barb Rosenstock Jet Plane: How it Works Davis Macaulay Chicken Soup, Boots Maira Kalman Fireboat: The heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey Maira Kalman

Fourth Grade Summer Assignment List

Nonfiction Summer Reading List *St. Augustine Summer Assignment Francis E. Ruffin Reading Level: 3.5 *Florida Don’t forget to practice your math facts using Sarah Tieck Reading Level: 3.8 Mathletics at *Everglades Jean Craighead George Reading Level: 4.0 https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student *Sunken Treasure and practice your language arts skills by using Gail Gibbons Reading Level: 4.2 i-Ready at https://login.i-ready.com/. *Life in St. Augustine Sally Senzell Isaacs Reading Level: 4.4 *Florida Manatees: Warm Water Miracles All current students have a username and Meish Goldish Reading Level: 4.6 password. New students will be assigned a login *Kennedy Space Center when school begins. Timothy Gaffney Reading Level: 4.6 *Florida Panthers: Struggle for Survival William Caper Reading Level: 4.8 *Florida Reading Information Paul Joseph Reading Level: 4.8 All incoming fourth graders are asked to *Castillo de San Marcos Charles Maynard Reading Level: 5.2 participate in the summer reading program. *Into Wild Florida Please read at least one of the books from the Elaine Pascoe Reading Level: 5.3 nonfiction and fiction lists below. For the *The Old Fort at St. Augustine nonfiction book, pretend you are a reporter and Keli Sipperly Reading Level: 6.0 write at least 10 sentences answering “who/what, Any Who Was/Is or Where Was Book Series where, when, how and why” about the novel. For the fiction novel, create a new book cover for the Novels and Stories novel including title, author, picture and at least a *Turtle in Paradise Jennifer L. Holm Reading Level 3.7 10 sentence summary of the novel. Most of the The Lemonade War Series listed books are Accelerated Reader books and Jacqueline Davies Reading Level 4.1 you will be able to test on any of these books Percy Jackson or Kane Chronicles series Rick Riordan Reading Level 4.7 when you return to school. Books marked with an *Hoot/Chomp/Flush/Scat (4 separate titles) * also have a Florida connection. These books Carl Hiassen Reading Level 5.0 may not be readily available in a library or book Spiderwick Chronicles series store, but they are available for purchase at Tony DiTerlizzi Reading Level 4.3 Amazon.com The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo Reading Level 4.4 *Blown Away! Joan Hiatt Harlow Reading Level 4.3 *Voices in St. Augustine, Trouble on the St. John’s River, Adventures on Amelia Island, Jane R. Wood Reading Level 4.1 – 4.9 *Manatee Blues Reading Level 4.1 *A Land Remembered – Volume 1 & 2 Patrick D. Smith Reading Level 5.3 – 5.7

Any book from the SSYRA 2017 – 2018 List http://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-3-5-resources.html Reading Levels 3.7 – 5.4

Fifth Grade Summer Assignment List

Literature Framed! James Pontu Summer Assignment The Secret Garden Frances Burnett Don’t forget to practice your math facts using The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill Mathletics at Serefina and the Black Cloak Robert Beatty https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student Nickle Bay Nick Dean Pitchford and practice your language arts skills by using i-Ready Wonder R.J.Palacio at https://login.i-ready.com/. How to Train Your Dragon Cressida Lowell Zodiac: Book 1 by All current students have a username and password. New students will be assigned a login when school Scat by Carl Hiaasen begins. Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Wolf Hollow Lauren Wolk Unwanteds (series of 7) Lisa McMann Reading Information Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Summertime is a great time to relax with a good C.S. Lewis book! A trip to your public library is great family time The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson too! In preparation for fifth grade, your child will Burnett read two books from the list, and then follow the Percy Jackson (series) Rick Riordan directions on the second page of the Fifth Grade Summerball Mike Lupica Summer Assignment List. Neptune Project (series) Tyler Whitesides The School for Good and Evil Soman Chainani Other Information Summerlost Ally Conde Since success in fifth grade depends greatly upon the A Land Remembered Patrick D. Smith students’ mastery of basic math facts, we strongly Monster Walter Dean Myers encourage you to work with your child to increase The Black Stallion Walter Farley speed and accuracy on addition, subtraction, Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan multiplication and division facts. There are many apps Old Yeller Fred Gibson available to make this fun! Fifth graders study the history and geography of the Poetry United States in Social Studies. If you are planning to Casey at the Bat Ernest Thayer travel around the U.S. this summer, we suggest that Brown Girls Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson you see, explore and discover as much as you can. Fog Carl Sandburg Travel is one of the greatest educations! Be sure to Words Free as Confetti Pat Mora collect things to share as we study various periods, Crossover Kwame Alexander people and places. It’s good to include holy places too! Dust of Snow Robert Frost Finally, and most importantly, remember to include Our Lord by attending Mass wherever you go! Father Parkes loves to see the church bulletins from all your travels, so bring them to school! Fifth Grade Summer Assignment List – Page Two

Informational Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms Patricia Lauber Area 51 Ted Martin The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank Can’t You Make Them Behave King George? Jean Fritz Underground Railroad Henrietta Buckmaster A History of US Joy Hakim We Are the Ship: Kadir Nelson The Story of Negro League Baseball Discovering Mars: The Amazing Story of the Red Planet Melvin Berger DK Eyewitness books Kindersley, Dorling You Wouldn’t want to be a World War II Pilot: Ian Graham Air Battles You Might Not Survive Caves Steven Kramer Balto and the Great Race Elizabeth Kimmel Destined for Space: Our Story of Exploration Don Nardo

Summer Reading Assignment

Choose one book from the Literature group and choose one from EITHER the Poetry or Information group. Students will create a project based on one book, and take an AR test for the other. One of their choices must be an AR book; they will take a test the first week of school. Check www.arbookfind.com to make sure the selection is an AR book. For the second book they will make a “Book Bag Report.” Directions are below. 1. Use a small paper bag. It should be a smaller version of the paper bags at the grocery store. It needs four sides. 2. Front of Bag - Write the title of the book and the name of the author. Place an illustration that would make others interested in the book below the title and name. You should draw the picture, no clip art. 3. Back of Bag - Show an illustration of your favorite scene. 4. One Side of Bag - List the main characters and write one descriptive sentence for each. 5. Other Side of Bag - Write at least five sentences about the setting. 6. Inside of Bag - Place five to seven items inside the bag that represent important events or characters from the book. For example, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets could have a snake, train, broom, wand, or glasses. Items need to fit into the bag, so miniature items are fine, but pictures are not. 7. Bottom of Bag - Write your name.

Sixth Grade Summer Assignment List

Fiction Ghost’s Grave P. Kehret Summer Assignment A Gathering of Days Joan Blos Soldier’s Heart Gary Paulsen Don’t forget to practice your math facts using Rising Water P.J. Petersen Mathletics at The Dangerous Days of Daniel X James Patterson https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student Double Helix Nancy Werlin and practice your language arts skills by using i-Ready Code Orange Caroline B. Cooney at https://login.i-ready.com/. Shakespeare’s Secret Elise Broach Sent Margaret Haddix On My Honor Marion Bauer All current students have a username and password. Eggs Jerry Spinelli New students will be assigned a login when school Dragon’s Blood Jane Yolen begins. Savvy Ingrid Law Reading Information Million Dollar Throw Mike Lupica Hatchet Gary Paulsen Please read at least TWO Accelerated Reader books Watsons Go to Birmingham Christopher Paul Curtis this summer with one being FICTION and the other Island of the Blue Dolphin Scott O’Dell Tex S. E. Hinton being NONFICTION. One of your book choices needs Call of the Wild Jack London to be selected from the list below. Make sure that The Outsiders S.E. Hinton Zoo Break Gordon Korman these books are not ones you have taken an AR test Gabriel’s Horses Alison Hart Tunnels Gordon/Williams on already. AR book levels can be checked at Say Goodnight, Gracie Julie Reese Deever www.arbookfind.com. When you come back to The Great Wide Sea M.H. Herlong Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry Mildred G. Taylor school, you will be expected to take both AR tests on Rules Cynthia Lord The Pike River Phantom Betty Ren Wright your choices and also be prepared to report on ONE Summer of My German Soldier Bette Green of your book choices, so select your books carefully. The Headless Cupid Zylpha K.Snyder Lily’s Ghost Laura Ruby The instructions for your assignment will be given to Holes Louis Sachar you when you return to school in August. The Hypnotist Gordon Korman The Egypt Game Zilpha K. Snyder

Non-fiction The Story of My Life Helen Keller Drowned City: Hurrican Katrina and New Orleans Don Brown Behind Rebel Lines Seymour Reit Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big and Believe in Yourself Finch and Killion On the Field with…Peyton and Eli Manning Matt Christopher On the Field with…Mia Hamm Matt Christopher Any of the Who was…? books written by various authors

Seventh Grade Summer Assignment List

Fiction Narnia Chronicles C.S. Lewis Summer Assignment The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Patterson Don’t forget to practice your math facts using Heat Mike Lupica Summer of My German Soldier Bette Green Mathletics at The Pike River Phantom Betty Ren Wright https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito Sheila Garrigue and practice your language arts skills by using i-Ready Zoobreak Gordon Korman at https://login.i-ready.com/. Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry Mildred D. Taylor Red Kayak Priscilla Cummings All current students have a username and password. The Year without Michael Susan B. Pfeffer My Brother Sam Is Dead James Collier New students will be assigned a login when school The Call of the Wild Jack London begins. The Headless Cupid Zylpha K. Snyder

Hoot Carl Hiaasen Exploring the Titanic Robert Ballard Reading Information The Slave Dancer Paula Fox Lily’s Ghosts Laura Ruby Listed on this page are fiction and non-fiction Amazing Grace Megan Shull Accelerated Reader books. Please select at least one Double Dutch Sharon Draper book from each list. Choose books that you have not Eggs Jerry Spinelli previously read, and be prepared to take the AR tests Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam Cynthia Kadohata The Great Wide Sea M. H. Herlong on both when you return in August. If you find a Tunnels Gordon and Williams different non-fiction book that appeals to your Say Goodnight, Gracie Julie Reece Deaver interest that is fine. Make sure it is appropriately A Murder for Her Majesty Beth Hilgartner The Sacrifice Kathleen Benner Duble challenging for middle school and that it is also an AR Yesterday’s Dead Pat Bourke book. You can check www.arbookfind.com to make The Haunting of Derek Stone Tony Abbott sure your selection is an Accelerated Reader title. Storm Runners Roland Smith Zach’s Lie Roland Smith You will also need to do a written report on one of The Secret Language of Sisters Luann Rice the books you have chosen. The instructions for this Endangered (and subsequent Eliot Schrefer books in series) assignment will be given to you upon returning to The Big Dark Rodman Philbrick school in August. The due date will be approximately one week after school starts. We hope you have an Non-fiction Amos Fortune: Free Man Elizabeth Yates enjoyable summer. Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Statesman Henry Elliott Double V. Campaign Michael Cooper Indian School: Teaching the

White Man’s Way Michael L. Cooper Mother Teresa Tanya Rice Father Damien & the Bells Sheehan The Civil Rights Movement Jim Ollhoff When Plague Strikes James Cross Giblin Diana Princess of the People Tanya Lee Stone The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Russell Freedman Marian Anderson Hank Aaron Serena Kappes Lou Gehrig Robert Greenberger Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big Jennie Finch and Believe in Yourself The Michael Burgan On the Field with Peyton Manning Stephanie Peter Natural Disasters: Moving Earth Steve Parker Sports Technology Linda Bruce Manatees Kris Hirschmann Ancient Greece Philip Ardagh Native Americans Judy Alter

Eighth Grade Summer Assignment List Fiction At Her Majesty’s Request Walter Dean Summer Assignment Meyers The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amour Don’t forget to practice your math facts using Shadow Riders Louis L’Amour Mathletics at Treasure Island Robert Louis https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student Stevenson and practice your language arts skills by using i- The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle Janet Fox The Clay Lion Amelie Jahn Ready at https://login.i-ready.com/. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor The Sacrifice Diane Matchek All current students have a username and password. Robinson Crusoe Daniel DeFoe New students will be assigned a login when school The Year Without Michael Susan Beth Pfeffer begins. The Inheritance (any book from the trilogy) Christopher Paolini The Light in the Forest Conrad Richter To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee The Call of the Wild Jack London Reading Information White Fang Jack London Listed here are popular Accelerated Reader titles. Lord of the Flies William Golding Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Please read at least TWO books this summer, one Stevenson from the fiction list and one from the non-fiction list. Elephant Run Roland Smith The non-fiction book you select can be on a person Jacob Have I Loved Katherine or subject not listed here, but it must be at a suitable Patterson The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds Rodman Philbrick reading level for a middle school student. Also, (The Donner Party Expedition) please make sure it is an A.R. book by checking Peak Roland Smith arbookfind.com. Come back to school ready to take Crash Jerry Spinelli Eggs Jerry Spinelli the Accelerated Reader computer tests on the books Milkweed Jerry Spinelli you selected. Calico Joe John Grisham Nine Levels Down William R. Dantz In addition, please note that a written book report The Secret Garden Frances Burnett will be assigned upon returning to school in August. Little Women Louisa May Alcott The instructions for this will be given at that time. Fahrenheit 451 Do not choose books you have previously read, and They Never Came Back Caroline Cooney Burning Up Caroline Cooney please do not read the illustrated or abridged Black Duck Janet Lisle versions of the classics listed on this page. Read the Ruined Paula Morris books in their complete forms, and choose books La Linea Ann Jamarillo Soldier Dog Sam Angus that meet your independent reading ability. Runaway Wendelin Van Draanen The Traitor’s Gate Avi America at War: The Spanish-American War Michael Golay Non-fiction Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Russell Freedman

The Gold Rush Bobby Kalmon The Forbidden School House Suzanne Jurmain Events that Changed History Leslie Wheeler Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Patricia McKissack Bernadette, Our Lady’s Little Servant Hertha Pauli Tuskegee Airmen of World War II Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold Jean Fritz Albert Einstein Aaron Frisch Leonardo DaVinci Kathleen Krull Freedom Roads Hansen & The Lincoln Assassination in American History Robert Somerlott McGowan Harriet Tubman M.J. Cosson The Japanese-American Internment: Civil Liberties Denied Michael Burgan Music Was It: Leonard Bernstein Susan G. Rubin The Civil Rights Movement Jennifer Zeiger The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Russell Freedman Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights World War II Stewart Ross World War II Battles and Leaders Aaron R. Murray The History of American Folk Music Adam Woog Waging Peace: The Story of Jane Addams Peggy Caravantes When Plague Strikes James Cross Giblin Women’s Right to Vote Peter Benoit Sports Heroes Jane Bingham