First, the kids will be bringing home most of their school supplies and resources on Wednesday. It should fit in their backpacks without needing an extra bag. If it gets too heavy, we'll send some home on Thursday. Here is what you can expect to come home:
Art Box with supplies (if your child is not going to use markers, crayons, colored pencils or even scissors for the summer or next year, I would love to add them to our classroom supplies)
School 8 Pocket Folder
Notebooks- 1 will be blank (see below for summer ideas)
Art Smock
Math Journal
Each student will receive a book from me as an end of the year present on the last day of school-shhhh, don't tell! The kids will be making a bookmark with a list of books and series they would like to read in the summer. Use this list as a starting point for summer reading. In addition to the book, I will be giving everyone a memory book filled with scrapbook pages, some photos and school work from the year.
Summer Resources:
Reading:
Your child can kick off summer reading with the book I give as a gift. Then, use your public library- there are SO many great activities and contests going on to keep your child reading all summer.
Family Novel- I strongly encourage you to try, if you have not already, reading aloud with your family. You do all the reading and then engage your child/children in conversation through questions about the story. It's best to read aloud a book above their reading level. Some ideas are James and the Giant Peach, Beezus and Ramona, The Tale of Despereaux, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...these all happen to have a movie you could watch after reading the book.
The Ultimate Guide to Summer Reading- this a a blog with lots of great summer reading ideas:
http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2014/05/summer-reading-list.html
Writing:
The empty journal I mentioned above would be a great summer journal. Keep your kids writing all summer with fun ideas
*Write Bingo- I will send home a sheet like this with writing ideas*Pen Pal letters (team up with a classmate)- write back and forth all summer- could even make a flat self like Flat Stanley we did in class.
*Summer Snapshots- have your child weekly draw something he/she did and write a detailed caption
*Create something and write about it- build a LEGO invention, design something, make a play-doh sculpture...
*How To Story: do a science experiment ie make a bubble solution, then have your child write a how to
*Journal Jar- write a bunch of ideas/prompts on paper, fold up individual ideas and place in a jar- your child can pick one out and write about it
*Book Of Why- Read one of these books and then have your child create their own Book of Why. This idea is inspired by my son who came up with this idea. Here is one of his why pages: "Why do I sneeze?". Then research the answers to write after the questions.
Math:
*The math journal math boxes and other pages that the kids did not complete for various reasons. Those pages would be great summer practice.
*Math fact practice- use flash cards, websites, games...to help your child build fact fluency- encourage them to use strategies for quick recall- doubles plus one (7+6 think 6+6=12, plus 1 more is 13). Using fingers to count up works, but is not efficient.
*Write number stories in the writing journal- addition, subtraction, multiplication and division stories i.e. My family of 4 went on a picnic. There were 20 slices of watermelon to share equally. How many slices did each person eat? 20 divided by 4= 5 slices
In addition to the activities listed above, use the websites in the right sidebar as a resource as well.
Lastly, when report cards are sent home, they will include your child's fact fluency data and a letter with your child's current reading level.
It has been a wonderful year in second grade! Thank you for being a great support for your child!
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