Grades

PreK

ACS Ready, Set Grow Backpacks:  Spend 10-15 minutes per day using resources

Kindergarten

City Park 

ELA:

  • ACS Ready, Set Grow Backpacks: Spend 10-15 minutes per day using resources

  • Starfall

  • Listen to or read a story every day

  • Practice sight words: make it a card game and find matching sight words

  • Write sight words in a sentence or create your own story

Math:

  • Orally count by 5’s to 100 and by 10’s to 100. (Count while riding in the car, playing with toys)

  • With toys or blocks find ways to make 10 such as 3 and 7, 5 and 5, 6

  • Create take away or addition stories with stuffed animals or blocks

First Grade

City Park 

ELA:

Tips for Preventing the Summer Slide into 1st Grade

Below are a few ideas provided to you by your child’s teachers. We would greatly appreciate you & your child working on these throughout the summer.

“Inside EVERY child is a rainbow waiting to SHINE”

  • Visit the E.G. Fisher Public Library! They have a summer reading program, where students can win prizes for reading. Included is a Reading Log that they can bring back on the first day!

  • Log into Epic Books! Epic books is a free online program that students can search hundreds of books and watch videos that connect to our standards.

  • Read newspapers, magazine articles or any book that you may already have at home and use the 5 Finger Retell after reading                                   

Math:

  • Make copies of the chart included to practice writing numbers to 120. You may also use this for counting and adding/subtracting as needed.

  • Zearn and Prodigy and free online math programs that adapt to your child’s level as they progress! www. Zearn.org prodigygame.com

  • Flash cards for adding and subtracting without regrouping. Flash cards can easily be made with recycled paper your family is no longer using.

Second Grade

City Park

Reading:

  • Read at least 20 minutes a day

  • Read different genres of books

  • Read for a purpose such as the directions on a recipe or how to assemble a game

  • Summer library program

  • Epic!

  • Play games to build vocabulary like Apples To Apples, Taboo!, Pictionary, Scattergories, Bananagrams, etc

  • Write letters to your friends, a relative, or teacher (address to CP)

  • Write a letter to your favorite author

  • Summer journal

  • Any apps for reading, phonics, etc.

Math:

  • Reflex Math

  • Multiplication flash cards to prepare for 3rd

  • Play dominos

  • Let kids count our money to pay for things or just counting random amounts or coins

  • Do time checks through the day for clock skills to the five minute mark

  • Hula hoop math facts

  • Multiplication hopscotch

  • Use hula hoops and sidewalk chalk to make analog clocks

  • Use jump ropes and chalk to make number lines and hop to skip count or add

  • Play Battleship, Monopoly, Yahtzee

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Sixth Grade

ELA:

  • For 7-10 days in a row, write a detailed account of your daily activities.  Include a detailed description of what you ate, the weather, what you wore, and activities you participated in.  Use sensory details and advanced vocabulary.  Include dialogue, your thoughts, and descriptions of other people's actions.  This can be written like a journal or like a story.

  • Research Latin and Greek roots.  Create an alphabetical list of words using these roots.  Write the words, the meanings, and draw a picture illustrating the word.  (Examples:  bio, chron, graph, gram, meter, tele, dict, flect, flex, struct, vers, vert, vis, vid)

  • Read 20 minutes per day.  Keep a log of the book and pages read each day.

  • Read a novel, and THEN watch the movie adaptation.  Write about the differences between the two.  Which one did you like better, the book or the movie?  Why?

Math:

Seventh Grade

ELA:

  • Read 20 minutes per day.  Keep a log of the book and pages read each day.

  • Research the topics below.  Write 5 sentences about each topic to share when we return to school.

  • The South Sudan

  • Frederick Douglass

  • Salva Dut

Math:

  • Students will read the examples and complete the practice activity in the Ratios, Proportions, and Unit Rates Practice!

  • Students will go to the following link to find topics covering the Number Sense section of the standards. They will watch the video tutorials in the “learn” column  and complete the practice activities on the right hand side in the “practice column. They need to print an overview of their scores once completed.

  • Unit 2: Module 2: Rational numbers

Eighth Grade

ELA:

  • Read 20 minutes per day.  Keep a log of the book and pages read each day.

  • Complete the grammar section of Study Island.

Math: