Summer Work Below are some resources to help support your student during the summer break. None of this is mandatory, but it is highly encouraged. Students need to continue to strengthen their literacy and numeracy skills throughout the summer break. If you have any specific questions, please contact your student s classroom teacher. 1. Use the Raz- Kids resource (which will be available to students all summer) to have your student practice their reading 2. Have your student keep a journal and write in it daily. Depending on your student start with just two or three sentences a day. Please make sure to encourage their writing by sharing that keeping a journal is something that great writers do, and that it needs to be neat so that others can read their work. 3. Use the BPCS summer reading list to have your student read daily! You may also have them the following activities: a. Retell the story by saying the important details of the beginning, middle and end. b. Identify the characters, setting and plot c. Make up an alternate outcome d. Write a short reflection on which characters they did/did not like and why. 4. Have your student practice reading the sight words that were sent home this winter. 5. Use the math calendar to practice a math skill each day. Please note that the math calendar provides one problem a day, but students should be given a chance to answer 2-3 similar questions. Have a great summer!
GRADE LEVEL BOOK LIST Beginning Reader Z was Zapped- Chris Van Allsburg One Potato: A Counting book of Potato Prints- Diana Pomeroy The Little House- Virginia Lee Burton Rain!- Linda Ashman. How Are you Peeling? Foods With Moods- Saxton Freyman, Joost Elffers Places to Go- Dona Herweck Rice This is My Book- Amanda Hudson Things I like- Anthony Browne Level A Green Eggs and Ham- Doctor Suess Where Is That Cat?- Carol Greene Have You Seen My Duckling?- Nancy Tafuri For Pete's Sake- Ellen Stoll Walsh Circle Dogs- Kevin Henkes Ollie- Olivier Dunrea Fire Truck- Sis Peter Level B And I Mean It, Stanley- Crosby Bonsall Beautiful Oops!- Barney Saltzberg Wind Blew- Pat Hutchins Dawn- Uri Shulevitz Good Night, Good Night- Shelley Moore Thomas Shawn and Keeper- Jonathan London Stella Fairy of the Forest- Marie- Louise Gay The Stray Dog- Marc Simont Dear Daisy, Get Well Soon- Maggie Smith Snow- Manya Stojic Bus For Us- Suzanne Bloom 2
Level C Meet Tiny Titans East- Art Baltazar Frank N Beans- Amy J. Lemke Bat and Bird- Katy Pike What's Love?- Shelley Hotner City Train In Trouble- Adria F. Klein Enter: Nightwingl- Art Baltazar Level D How Animals Get Around- Bruce Larkin Biscuit Goes to School- Alyssa Satin Capucilli Don't Make Me Laugh- James Stevenson Hector's Hiccups- Lee Wardlaw Madlenka- Peter Sis Some Things Are Scary- Florence Parry Heide Level E Morris the Moose- Bernard Wiseman The Very Busy Spider- Eric Carle Inspector Hopper- Doug Cushman Baer Says" Thank You"- Michael Dahl Happy Birthday, Princessl- Jennifer Weinberg Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type- Doreen Cronin Jason's Bus Ride- Harriet Ziefert Level F Oops i- Kirsten Hall Tera, Star Student- Shana Corey I Can Skateboard- Edana Eckart Johnny Appleseed- Patricia Demuth There is A bird On Your Head- Mo Willems Level G Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day- Kate McMullan 3
Safari- Gail Tuchman Storm Is Coming!- Heather Tekavec Big Numbers- Edward Packard, Sal Murdocca Emma's Yucky Brother- Jean Little And the Dish Ran Away- Janet Stevens, Susan Stevens Crummet The Gruffalo- Julia Donaldson Baboon- Kate Banks Level H Leo the Late Bloomer- Robert Kraus Shark vs. Train- Chris Barton Amanda Pig- Jean Van Leewen Annie Was Warned- Jarrett J. Krosoczka Love Trains!- Philemon Sturges Wake Up, Black Bear!- Dawn Bentiey Let s Talk About Being Good- Joy Berry I Can Add Upside Down- Linda Hayward, Cathy Goldsmith My Birthday Cake- Olivia George Level I Hi Fly Guy- Tedd Arnold Bink and Gollie- Kate DiCamillo Huggly's Thanksgiving Parade- Tedd Arnold Looking Through A Microscope- Linda Bullock Tallyho, Pinkerton!- Steven Kellogg Raisel's Riddle- Erica Silverman Oodles of Noodles Sydine Kleinhenz Calendar Bears- Kathleen Haque Adventures of Super Diaper Baby- George Beard, Harold Hutchins I m Having A Bad Day!- Steve Metzger Level J When Will I Read?- Miriam Cohen Cork and Fuzz- Dori Chaconas 4
Dog and Bear- Laura Vaccaro Seeger The Big Sleepover- Elizabeth Bennett Mount Olympus Basketball Kevin O Malley Timothy Goes to School- Rosemary Wells The Ugly Caterpillar- Carl Sommer Cone Kong- Daniel & Jill Pinkwater The Trip (China)- Gail W. Kenna A Rainbow of My Own- Don Freeman Ginger Brown- Sharon Dennis Wyeth Level K Owen- Kevin Henkes Hot Fudge- James Howe A Home for Bird- Philip C. Stead Carlo Likes Counting- Jessica Spanyol Bedtime for Frances Russeil & Liliian Hoban Level L Dinosaur Time- Peggy Parish Rainbow Fish- Marcus Pfister Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! - Grace Lin Big Red Lollipop- Rukhsana Khan Frog and Toad are Friends- Arnold Lobel Max's Words- Kate Banks Level M How I became a Pirate- Melinda Long When Sheep Cannot Sleep- Satoshi Kitamura Chang's Paper Pony- Eleanor Coerr Gently Step Out- Helen Frost Emily s First Days of School- Rosemary Wells Level N A Bad Case of the Stripes- David Shannon 5
The Icky Bug Alphabet Book- Jerry Pallotta The Polar Express- Chris Van Allsburg Big Surprise in the Bug Tank- Ruth Horowitz By My Brother's Side- Tiki Barber Dancing in the Wings- Debbie Allen Subway- Christopher Niemann Wink: the Ninja who Wanted to be Noticed- J.C. Phiilips Young Zeus- G. Brian Karas Ben's Trumpet- Rachel Isadora Harry, The Dirty Dog- Gene Zion The Ugly Duckling- Anne Walter Harold and the Purple Crayon- Crockett Johnson Level 0 Make Way for Duckiings- Robert McCloskey A story, A Story- Gail E. Haley Ant and the Honey Bee (What A Pair!)- Megan McDonald Fox Tails: Four Fables from Aesop- Amy Lowry Hiromi's Hands- Lynne Barasch Polar Bear 'Morning- Lauren Thompson Clever Jack Takes the Cake- Candace Fleming How Rocket Learned to Read Tad Hills Grandfather Gandhi- Arun Gandhi, Bethany Hegedus Just the Way You Are- Maz Lucado The Pirate of Kindergarten- George Ella Lyon Level P Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich: and other stories you're sure to like, because they're all about monsters, and some of them are also about food, you like food, don't you? Well, all right then- Adam Flex - Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust- April Puiley Sayre Swimmy- Leo Lionni I Millions- Frank Cottrell Boyce The Supernaturalist- Eoin Golfer The Toilet Paper Tigers- Gordon Korman 6
Thank You, Mr. Falker~ Patricia Polacco Dancer- Lorri Hewett Black Whiteness- Robert Burleigh Deep and Dark and Dangerous- Mary Downing Hahn Fallen Angels- Walter Dean Myers Eleven Kids, One Summer- Ann M. Martin. My Teacher IS an Alien- Bruce Coville Awake and Dreaming- Kit Pearson Thief of Time- Terry Pratchett 7
Summer Math Review Calendar Have your student do a problem a day. If they are able to complete the task quickly and easily, then feel free to create a few more difficult problems for your child using the same model, or go back to a problem that they struggled with on a previous day. July 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Go on a shape hunt. Find 3 things in the shape of a sphere. How many tens and ones are there on the number 23? Challenge: How many tens and ones are there in the number 63? Use objects to show a set that is ONE LESS than 11. Find a rectangle in your home and trace it on a piece of paper. How many sides does it have? How many vertices/corners? Write the numbers 0-10. Take a handful of cereal. How many pieces are there? How many groups of 10 can you make? How many left over ones are there? Write the numbers 10-20. Practice counting by 10 s to 100. Find some rocks from outside. Put them in order from smallest to largest. Shape hunt. How many different triangles can you find? Start at 26 and count to 50. Challenge: Start at 52 and count to 100. What is this shape? Tell someone about this shape. Find 3 things in your house that weigh less than an apple. Solve using a picture or objects. 5 + 3 = Choose 2 books. Which one is heavier? Which one is longer? Use other words to describe the books. Tina bakes 10 cookies. She ate 3 of the cookies. How many cookies does she have left? Draw a picture to solve. 3 + 2 = 5 + 4 = Find things in your house or outside that are in the shape of a cone. Fill in the blanks with the correct number: 2, 4, _, 8, _. Draw a number line from 1-20. Have an adult cover a number and tell what number is covered. How many different ways can you represent the number 8 in a picture? Count backwards from the number 15 to 0. Draw a picture using 1 circle, 2 squares, 3 rectangles, and 1 triangle. Represent the numbers six, seven and eight, as many ways as you can. Go outside and describe what you see. Use the words taller, shorter, and longer. Draw a picture of a garden with flowers that is one less than 10. Tell an adult what 3 numbers come after 29. Draw a picture with a house, tree, car and heart. Make the heart smaller than the house, make the house the same height as the tree, and make the tree taller than the car. Count backwards from the number 20 to 0 Challenge: Count backwards from 20 by 2 s. Draw a picture to solve. 3-2 = 8-4 = Start at 37. Count to 100.
Summer Math Review Calendar August Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday I have 3 fish. How many more fish do I need to have 5 in all? Discuss how you use measurement in your family. Use a calendar to count the number of days you have been on summer break. Find three things in your house that are heavier than your favorite chair. There are 4 hens and 3 foxes. Write a number sentence to show the total number of animals. Fill in the blanks with the correct number: 10,12,14, _, _, 20. Create an addition story problem using the number 15 Challenge: Create a story problem using the number 18 and 19. Tell a subtraction story problem with the number 6 then solve it by drawing a picture. Measure the length of a room in your house. Talk with an adult about what tool you used to measure and what you learned Use objects to show a set that is one more than 13. Start at 10 and skip count by 2 s to 30. Tell an addition story problem then solve it by drawing a picture. Tell a subtraction story problem then solve it by drawing a picture. Draw a picture to solve. 12-2 = 16-5 = Write the numbers 10-20. There are 6 cars in a parking lot. Some are red and the rest are black. How many could be red and how many could be black? Show 3 different solutions. Solve 12 + 12 = 13 10= Fill in the blanks with the correct number: 10,15,20, _, 30, _, 40, _, _. Use a calendar to count how many days until the 1 st day of school Sam has 10 pencils, Patti takes away 3. Draw a picture and write a number sentence to show how many pencils Sam has left. Fill in the blanks with the correct number: 10,20, 30, 40, _, _, 70, _, 90, -. I have 11 cars how many more do I need to have 20 in all? How many sides and vertices are there in a cube? In a sphere?