This summer:
- finish Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons just to make sure we’ve covered all it offers
- daily silent reading (10-15 minutes for now?)
- I read to her daily
- she reads to me daily
Reading Comprehension
Book-based study guides for kids in grades K-12 - www.learninglinks.com
Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s by Shirley C. Raines and Robert J. Canady (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Writing
The Creative Journal for Children by Lucia Capacchione (NOT AT LIBRARY)
A is for Angry: An Animal and Adjective Alphabet by Sandra Boynton (NOT AT LIBRARY)
Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns by Ruth Heller (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Slither, Swoop, Swing by Alex Ayliffe (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Mrs. ABC Spelling and Phonics Curriculum - www.mrsabc.com
Exactly the Opposite by Tana Hoban
A High, Low, Near, Far, Loud, Quiet Story by Nina Crews (NOT AT LIBRARY)
The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Wet Foot, Dry Foot, High Foot, Low Foot by Linda Hayward (NOT AT LIBRARY)
Listening and Speaking Skills
Kids on Stage - charades board game for kids ages 3-8 - www.universitygames.com
Study Skills
- Know the uses of a dictionary, encyclopedia, and card catalog.
- Be able to put words in alphabetical order according to first letter.
Mathematics
daily practice!
Number Theory
100 Days of School by Trudy Harris (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
From One to One Hundred by Teri Sloat (NOT AT LIBRARY)
One Potato: A Counting Book of Potato Prints by Diane Pomeroy (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
…98, 99, 100! Ready or Not, Here I Come! by Teddy Slater (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
The Crayon Counting Book by Pam Munoz Ryan and Jerry Pallotta (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
The King’s Commissioners by Aileen Friedman (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Anno’s Math Games by Mitsumasa Anno (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Eating Fractions by Bruce McMillan (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Fraction Action by Loreen Leedy (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
The Best Vacation Ever by Stuart J. Murphy (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Counting: Ourselves and Our Families by Antonia Stone and Susan Jo Russell (NOT AT LIBRARY)
Operations
www.sycamoretree.com (games using double-nine dominoes)
Money and Management
Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Vorst (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
The Go-Around Dollar by Barbara Adams (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
One Hand at a Time by Patricia Smith (NOT AT THE LIBRARY)
www.delta-ed.com (small clocks)
How Big is a Foot? by Rolf Myller (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Twelve Snails to One Lizard by Susan Hightower (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Geometry
A Cloak for the Dreamer by Aileen Friedman (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
The Shapes Game by Paul Rogers (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
M is for Mirror by Ducan Birmingham (NOT AT LIBRARY)
Which Way, Ben Bunny? by Mavis Smith (NOT AT THE LIBRARY)
History and Geography
American History: General
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston
They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull
My Fellow Americans: A Family Album by Alice Provensen
Happy Birthday, Grandma Moses! by Claire Bonfanti Braham and Maria Bonfanti Esche (a month-by-month list of over 100 “special days,” including national and multicultural holidays and birthdays of famous people, with accompanying activities, games, recipes, and reading lists.)
New True Books: American Symbols Series by Patricia Ryon Quiri (a series of simple large-print books on national symbols, illustrated with color photographs)
From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs by Amy L. Cohn
John Henry: An American Legend by Ezra Jack Keats
Tall Tale Series by Steven Kellogg (includes Johnny Appleseed, Mike Fink, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett)
Yankee Doodle: A Revolutionary War Tale by Gary Chalk
American History: Chronological Survey
If You…Series (If You Lived in the Day of the Wild Mammoth Hunters and If You Lived with the Sioux Indians)
Native American Legends Series by Terri Cohlene (includes Dancing Drum: A Cherokee Legend; Turquoise Boy: A Navajo Legend; and Little Firefly: An Algonquian Legend)
Wild and Woolly Mammoths by Aliki
New True Books: Ancient Civilizations by Patricia C. McKissack (includes The Maya, The Aztec, and The Inca)
Follow the Dream by Peter Sis
Colonial Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in the New World by Laurie Carlson
If You…Series (…Lived in Colonial Times, …Grew Up with George Washington)
On the Mayflower: Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice and a Passenger Girl
Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy
Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl
Tapenum’s Day: A Day in hte Life of a Wampanoag Boy (all by Kate Waters)
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
The Fourth of July Story by Alice Dagliesh
Young John Quincy by Cheryl Harness
Art
Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
What Makes a Shadow? by Clyde Robert Bulla (NOT AT THE LIBRARY)
Getting to Know the World’s Greatest ARtists SEries by Mike Venezia (LIBRARY HAS THIS…52 BY HIM)
Move Over, Picasso! A Young Painter’s Primer by Ruth Aukerman (NOT AT THE LIBRARY)
Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Mudworks: Creative Clay, Dough, and Modeling Experiences (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Music
Gonna Sing My Head Off! American Folk Songs for Children by Kathleen Krull (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series by Mike Venezia (LIBRARY HAS THIS…52 BOOKS BY HIM)
Music Maestro Parade - www.aristoplay.com
The Orchestra by Peter Ustinov (www.erc-inc.com) (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Health and Physical Education
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers (LIBRARY HAS THIS)
Physical Education Plans for Grades 1-2 by Bette J. Logsdon
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