FIRST GRADESUN, ME PACKET

District Heights Elementary School* Please complete summer packet and return it to your

teacher on the first day of schooL

Dear Parents/Guardians,

This has been a very exciting year for your child, who has

worked hard at learning new and interesting things. It has been a

good and successful year for everyone.

Most summer activities are for fun and enjoyment, and are not

school related. Some children need some type of structure to

reinforce the skills that were taught during the past school year,

Therefore, we have attached some summer fun calendars for your

child to do over the summer to help them stay on top of their skills.

We recommend that you help your child with these calendar,s so

that a continuing learning experience takes place.

We would like for everyone to have a safe and enjoyable summer!

Sincerely,

First grade teachers

There are many things you can do for and with your child this .t~

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summer that will help him Or her retain what they have learnedduring this school year. Here are a few ideas:

¯Make regular visits to the public library and encourage your child to read daffy.¯Visit local museums and cultural centers. Encourage an on-going discussion of what was

seen and what your child learned from the visit.

¯ See that your child gets regular physical exercise. Sign them up for swimming lessons,karate lessons, dance lessons or encourage them to join a team sport.

¯ Limit your child to a minimum amount of television viewing. Always make sure that chil-dren only watch programs that are appropriate for their age and maturity level.

¯ Arrange several opportunities when you can help your child review math facts and spellingwords. You might want to purchase or make simple flash cards. If you make the activityfun, it will be an enjoyable time for both you and your child.

¯ Encourage your child to take up a hobby. You might suggest and provide the materials foran art activity or a cooking project. A child that likes to sing may enjoy joining a juniorchoir or children’s drama group. You might want to encourage your child to start acollection such as rocks, insects, shells, pressed flowers, marbles, etc.

Provide a new notebook or blank book that your child can use as a daily journal. Suggest aspecific time each day in which he or she can write about the day’s events orpersonal feelings. Encourage good penmanship, spelling and punctuation.

Read to your child every day. Provide a time before bed to read a stor~ together or youmay want to read a short, funny storgl poem or news article at the dinnertable. The Reader’s Digest Magazine is an excellent source of short, concise and oftenhumorous stories that family members can read to each other.

Spend some quiet time each day talking to your child~ about the things that are important tohim or her. Make sure that you take time for hugs and kisses and to affirm your child ofyour love and admiration for their special qualities.

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Write two sentences about the book.

Where does the story happen?

eading with others is Ver3< eobl!. Ask your parentsto read to you. You can read to them, too. When youare done, talk about What happene, d in the story, andwhat you liked best.

~Next time you read a story, think about its characters. The charactersare the people, animals, or things that do all the action in a story. Usethe space below to write about your favorite character from a story.,Why-do you like this character?

~)ften when you read; you find new~ words.If you don’t know what they mean, take a guessfrom the words around them. Then jotthem down and.look them up later inthe dictionary. Ask a grown-up forhelp if you need it.

~ Use this New Word Leg to writedown words you do not know. Look them up when you can.Try to fill UD this page. Then you will know 20 new words bythe end of summer!

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to do--at least 15 minutes is best,".Some books take longer to fihishthan others. The number of booksyou read is not important--as longas you read every day!

~Keep track of the books you readthis summer. Write them downhere. if you need more space, use the inside backcover of this book, or a separate piece of paper.

Title:

Author:.

’What I liked about this book:

2. Title:

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What I liked about this book:

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First Grade Word List

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Once children are familiar with the consonant,and short vowel sounds, they are ready

to work with simple rhyming words and word famili’es. Help your child sound out these

words.The words in each list rhyme with the word pictured at the top.

cat fanrat panhat manbat canfat Danmat ranpat tansat van

bedfed jetred yetled getwed letTed metNed petEd wet

net pigwigjigbigdigfigriggig

lipdiphipnipripsiptip

doglogfogboghogjogcog

mop bug suntop tug bunhop hug funpop rug runcop mug nunbop jug punsop dug gun

MORE WORD FAMILIES

These word families include more advanced letter combinations.Teach your child this

rhyme: When two vowels go walldn~ the first one does the tal/dng! It indicates that when two

vowels are close together, the first rowe becomes a long vowel and the second vowel is

silent.The words in each list rhyme with the word pictured at the top of the column. Have

your child read each list.

pail hay bail jeep

sail bay call beep

tail day fall keephail lay hall deepjail may mall peep

mail pay tall weepriail say wall sheeprail play small sleep

nineminedinefinelinevinewineshine

light king nosenight ring hose

blue crydue by

might sing rose Sue myright wing pose clue flysight thing close glue tryfight sting those true why

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SIGHT WORDSMake flashcards to help si×c~rds the firs~ day. E~ch

your child develop his or hersight-word vocabulary. Start

out with iust three words fromthis list. Print each word On

two separate index cards.Practice with this mini-deck of

two more cards to the

~eck. In a few mohths,

your child will recognize

almost one hundred

words on si8ht!

Activities with sight-word fl~shc~rds:~ Read the words to your child.

~ Have your child make pairs of

the cards with matchin~words.

Have your child read thewords to you.

If your child prefers action,spread the cards on the floorface up, One player calls out aword.The other player must

stand with each foot on acard with that word.Yourchild will enioy being theczlter and making you hoparound, too, It’s still greatreading practice!

Wh~t if your child finds~ particular word h~rdto remember~~ You can tape copies of this

word on the front door, onyour forehead, or inside alunchbox if you think yourchild will find thesereminders funny.

Have your child

~ype words on a

typewriter or

computer to

make his or her

own reminders.

Have your childspell out the wordwith alphabet cerealand eat it.

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MATH MAn IPULATIVES ,,

conc’ept by ’ "~If you look around your ~undling ~en , .. -’ ¯home, you can find objects touse to illustrate mathlessons.Your neighb~qrs andrelatives may be able tocontribute items to yourcollection. For example, whenyour child is working onlearning to tell time,practicing setting the time ona collection of old clocks willmake it more interesting.Clocks don’t have to be inrunning order to use for this

activity.

Buttons,

beans,

blocks, smalltoys, beads~ ~~i° -’~’:’~

together or c~n ~ee~

psper dips make h~ndym~niput~tives your child c~ncount out, sort by ~ributes,diYide into se~ &nd f~ionsof sets, or use to illustrate

piece vElue. For example, let’ss~7 you here ~ l~rgecollection of btoc~s that sn~ptogether End come in m~n7colors.You could illustratepiece v~lue b7 choosingcert2in size blockrepresent ones, and sn&ppingtogether ~ column often ofthem ~o represent tens.

48 = 4 tens and 8 ones

If you don’t have blocks,you could illustrate the same

hpi g~ ’ : "toot cks to ther With arubber ~and to representtens while leaving single,

loose toothpicks to repre-

sent the ones.

When your childlearning fractions, you canillustrate the concept ofequal parts by cutting anactual pie or pizza intohalves, thirds, fourths, oreighths! Dividing a batch ofcookies among four childrendemonstrates fractional parts

of a set.

Counting upreal money to buy holidaygifts and making real changewhen playing grocery storewil! teach the value of moneyfar better than the pictureson a worksheet.

Determining the value ofa pile of nickels from thepiggybank is a fun way toteach counting by fives.Andcalculating how many moremonths until t~e nextbirthday will get your child tostudy the seasons, months,weeks, and days on an actualcalendar. Real-life problemsare naturally motivating!

COMPUTATIOn SKILLS

Be sure to use the horizontal as well as thevertical format when writing

problems for practice.

AdditionFacts0+0=0 2+2=40+l=l 2+3=50+2=2 2+4±6

0+3=3 2+5=70+4=4 2+6=8

0+5=5 2+7=90+6=6 2+8=100+7=7 3+0=30+8=8 3+1=40+9=9 3+2=5

+0=l- 3+3=6+1=2 3+4=7+2=3 3+5=8+3=4 3+6=9+4=5 3+7=10+5=6 4+0=4+6=7 4+1=5+7=8 4+2=6+8=9 4+3=7

1+9=10 4+4=82+0=2 4+5=92+1=3 4+6=10

5+0=55+1=65+2=75+3=85+4=95+5=106+0=66+1=76+2=86+3=96+4=107+0=77+1=87+2=97+3=108+0=88+1=98+2=109+0=99+1=10,

Many first graders are ready tolearn the addition combinations to 18.Practice these math facts by playingthe card games described on the nextpage.Addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers may also be introduced.First-grade problems usually do notinvolve regrouping (carrying orborrowing).

SubtractionFacts0-0=0 6-1=5I-0=1 6-2=4I-I=0 6-3=32-0=2 6-4=22-1=1 6-5=12-2=0 6-6=0

3-0=3 7-0=7

3-I=2 7-I=63-2=I 7-2=5

3-3=0 7-3=4

4-0=4 7-4=34-1=3 7-5=24-2=2 7-6=14-3=1 7-7=04-4=0 8-0=85-0=5 8-1=75-1=4 8-2=65-2=3 8-3=55-3=2 8-4=45-4=1 8-5=35-5=0 8-6=26-0=6 8-7=1

8-8=09-0=99-1=89-2=79-3=69-4=59-5=49-6=39-7=29-8=19-9=0~0-1=910-2=810-3=710-4=610-5=510-6=410-7=310-8=210-9=1

2+9= I 5+9=14358= I 6+5=113+9=12 6+6=124+7= II 6+7=134+8=12 6+8=14~+9=13 6+9=155+6=11 7+4=115+7=12 7+5=125+8=13 7+6=13

7+7=147+8=157+9=168+3=118+4=128+5=138+6=148+7=158+8=16

8+9=179+2=119+3=129+4=139+5=149+6=159+7=169+8=179+9=18

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Name:

Week 28

Bob, Jalen, Meghan, and Sara each have $5.75. They each have different coins fortheir money.

Step A:Show what coins and/or bills each of them could have.

Children Way to Make $1.00Bob

Jalen

Meghan

Sara

Step B:Explain how you found your answer.Use what you know about money in your explanation.Use words, numbers, and/or symbols in your explanation.

~ Mathematics Problem of the Week Booklet-Grade One 29¯ Prince George’s County Public Schools

Name:

Week 34

Maya has 5 dolls with red hair, 6 dolls with black hair and 4 dolls with brown hair.

Step A:How many dolls does Maya have in all?

Step B:Explain why your answer is correct.Use what you know about problem solving in your explanation.Use words, numbers, and/or symbols in your explanation

Mathematics Problem of the Week Booklet-Grade One 3 5Prince George’s County Public Schools

Name:

Week 37

Jill started with 34 cookies. She gave away ten cookies.

Step A:Write a number sentence to tell how many cookies Jill has left.

Step B:Explain why your answer is correct.Use what you know about number sentences in your explanation.Use words, numbers, and/or symbols in your explanation.

Mathematics Problem oft he Week Booklet-Grade One 3 8Prince George’s County Public Schools

SEQUENCE CHAIN FOR!

Prince George’s County Public Schools Reading/English Language Arts20tl Summer Adventure Calendar

Rising Second Graders

Directions: Keep your reading and writing skills sharp for next year by completing these activities. You will need two journals. One journal will be for writing and another journal will be for Word Work.Have fun!

JULYSunday uesday WednesdbyFluency Comprehension Journal EntryANriting Vocabulary Word Work Website Library Visit

I 2Visit www starfall com~ an July is National ~interactive website that Ice Creamcontains phonics games, month! Readstories, videos, and literacy Ice Cream: Theresources for parents. Full Scoop by Gall Gibbons

or any other book aboutfood.

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Get the mini page or Using the newspaper Wdte an Acrostic poem about Learn two new words Make tonight game night with your Is school the same Check out a recipe book or a

KidsPost from the article you listened to something you’ve done with today. Write the meaning family. PIay Apples to Apples or everywhere? What do book about food. Try to read

newspaper. Ask a family or read yesterday, your family. Start each line of the words in your Pictureka or any other word game students do for recess in and follow one of the recipes

member to read aloud to tell a friend what the of your poem with the letter ournaL Then, create a you have. Russia? How do students eat with an adult. Or, you mayread your food book to a

you if you need help. article was about. Be on each line. tally chart and mark how Iunch in London? Do they

Then, pick a sentence sure to include often you use the words have homework in Hong friend.

and see if you can read it important details, E correctly throughout the Kong? Go to

aloud like a reporter. A day. Were you able to use www kJdsclick or~ to find outc the words at least three how schools in otherH times throughout the day? counffies are different

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Reread the recipe or the Read another recipe Have you done any baking Opposites are all around Foods Can Help you Read and Spell Visit Check out a book aboutfiiends. Read Frog and Toad

food book aloud with a with an adult. Explain this summer? Write in your us! As you are enjoying Words! Create a food chart in your h tt_~.g..//www read kid do read coare Friends, Henry and

family member. Be sure to an adult the steps journal about a time that you the summer day, think journal Divide your paper into four m!home for great readingMudge, or George and

to use expression when of the have helped baked or cook about the things you have columns. Place the following words at ideas.Martha. You can also look

reading. recipe ~ something done. Wdte a word or the top of each column, corn, rice,and with a family ’ ’~, 3hrase describing what meat, peach Then, think of words for any other book from the

why it ~ member. Be ~ you have done and then that rhyme, and place them in the recommended reading list.

is sure to include the opposite. correct columa.important to follow a pictare with For ex. Run outside corn rice meat eachthe recipe in order. labels. Walk inside I acem I alice ~ wheat I beach

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Listen to an audio book in Read your book How many words can you Write each of the following letters on Visit http/iwww wordle net Check out a fai~taie likeCinderella, Beauty and the

the car or at home today. about fi’iends. Why Think about the story you are i think that deal with a separate index card: f, r, i, e, n, d, and make a "word cloud"

Then, listen again and do you think the reading. Wdte a note to the friendship? Write these s, h,i, p together. Fill it words you Beast, The Three Little Pigs,

read atong. characters are author telling himlher your words in your journal. Then use your index cards to make a want to leam words for next or folktale fiom the library

friends? Tell a family favorite part. Then, share your list with word. For ex. school year. You may also select a book

member about the a friend. from the recommended

characters and their Divide your paper in your journal into reading list.

fiiendship. 2 columns: Short Vowels and LongVowels. Write each word you make inthe cerrectcelumn. How manywordscan you make?

Prince George’s County Public Schools Reading/English Language Arts2011 Summer Adventure Calendar

Rising Second Graders

Directions: Keep your reading and writing skills sharp for next year by completing these activities. You will need two journals. One journal wiU be for writing and another journal will be for Word Work.Have fun!

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Lights, Camera, Action! Think about the book If you could be in any Listen for homophones! Here are examples of words that end Visit Read Oh No, Gotta Go! by

Using the faiq4ale you you have been tairytale, what would it be? Watch a movie about a http//w’~,~ read writethi~ k Susan Middefton Elya or

read yesterday, work with reading, Does it Write a paragraph about you fairytale. Have your journal -u_g_-ut -un /flies/resources/nt~rastiveslc another book from theyour family to put on a remind you of as the star in one of the ready, Listen closely for bug cut bun omidinde× html and create recommended reading list.

play. Include interesting another fairy tale? If fairytales. Be sure to include homophones. When you How many more words can you think your own cartoon.sound effects and props so, share. If not, a drawing of yourself as one hear a homophone, write it of with these endings? Write thosetoo! explain to someone of the main characters. down and then think about words in your joureal. As you read

how the story is the other word that today, t~y to find other words withdifferent. matches with that these endings, and add it to your list,

homophone, For example:see and sea(These wordssound the same and arespelled differently.)Last, write a sentence anda picture for each word.How many pairs ofhomophones can youfind?

31Read to someone yourfavorite part of a book.TnJ to sound like theauthor of the stor,/.

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