Rising 1st Grade Summer Learning
Suggested Math Practice
Practicing math skills consistently over the summer will help students reinforce their math proficiency and ensure a smooth transition back to school in August.
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This summer, Athens Academy is asking all Lower School students to participate in the Athens Academy Summer Math Challenge as they work towards fast and effortless recall of math facts through a fun and engaging program called Reflex Math. Participation for Rising First Graders is optional.
Please know that this program is adaptive, which means it will learn more about your child as they interact with it. This means they may encounter math facts immediately that they cannot do on their own! Please resist the urge to help them with the answer! Once the program learns where your child is, it will adjust and work towards mastery. If your student becomes frustrated or cannot navigate the computer or program independently after a few sessions with your help, please discontinue play! Students log into Reflex Math through their student portal at least three times a week and strive for the “green light” each time. Your child can utilize the Reflex math program from any device with internet access throughout the summer. Parents can create an optional parent account to monitor their student's progress throughout the summer by following the directions found here. Optional Additional Math Practice Students who want to spend additional time working with grade-level content are invited to work through the IXL Ultimate Summer Workbook or the IXL Summer Boost Skill Plan using the IXL online platform. For more information, please see IXL-Summer-Parent-Handout. Should you need assistance please contact: Returning students: [email protected] New students: [email protected] For technical problems, please call our tech department at 706-433-2532 |
Summer Reading
Welcome to Lower School! Each summer, our school provides suggested book titles to encourage summer reading. The books listed for 1st grade feature beginner readers (meant to be attempted by the student) as well as beginner chapter books, social-emotional learning books, and graphic novels (meant to be enjoyed with a grownup or family)! These titles are only suggestions. The most important thing is that students read all summer and are enjoying it. Rereading favorites is also encouraged! We recommend your child reads 20 minutes a day all summer. Don't forget, audiobooks and e-books are reading options too!
Recommended Titles
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BEGINNER READERS
Bobo and Pup-Pup! Let's Make Cake by Vikram Madan and Nicola Slater Bobo and Pup-Pup are making a cake! Pup-Pup reads the ingredients and Bobo gathers them. Sugar and butter, no problem! Bobo brings salt and lemons. But wait, those are not on the ingredient list! Bobo nabs a lot of things that are not in the recipe. Well, it's an experiment! It will still taste great...won't it? Even if the result isn't perfect, Bobo and Pup-Pup are happy to spend time together. Doing things with your best friend is always fun! Elephant & Piggie by Mo Willems (Series) Elephant and Piggie, a book series for early readers, features two friends: an antsy male elephant named Gerald, and a vivacious female pig named Piggie. The books are written in conversational style, and aim to teach early readers about the importance of friendship, and how to deal with life's problems. The books highlight how friendship is not always easy, but it is very important, and they help readers understand emotion. Flubby Is Not a Good Pet! by J.E. Morris Flubby is a large, sleepy cat who refuses to do the things that other pets do. He won't sing, catch, or even jump! But when a scary situation brings Flubby and his owner together, they realize they really do need each other--and that makes Flubby a good pet after all. My Toothbrush is Missing by Jan Thomas Dog's toothbrush is missing. Has anybody seen it? Maybe . . . But what does a toothbrush look like? Donkey wonders. Featuring Jan Thomas’s wonderfully wacky humor, rowdy repetitions, and hilarious characters, this book is sure to have young readers laughing out loud! What About Worms!? by Ryan T. Higgins Tiger is BIG. Tiger is BRAVE. And Tiger is NOT afraid of anything... except WORMS! Are Tiger’s worm worries worse than worms? BEGINNER CHAPTER BOOKS A-Z Mysteries by Ron Roy (Series) A to Z Mysteries is a mystery series. The books follow the adventures of three child detectives, Donald David "Dink" Duncan, Josh Pinto, and Ruth Rose Hathaway, as they solve mysteries that begin with each letter of the alphabet. The child detectives are nine years old and live in Green Lawn, a fictional town in Connecticut and they become friends. Geeger the Robot Goes to School by Jarrett Lerner and Serge Seidlitz Geeger the Robot is going to school. But not robot school…a school with kids, the human kind! Geeger isn’t used to human ways, and his zany misunderstandings and overly literal responses to instructions lead to quite a few mishaps. He’s starting to wonder if he can even make it until snack time! Will a bot made of wires, nuts, and bolts fit in with a classroom of kids? Jack Gets Zapped! by Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli On rainy days, Jack loves nothing more than playing video games. But when lightning strikes and Jack finds himself trapped inside his favorite game, will he find a way out before it's game over? Jigsaw Jones Mysteries by James Preller (Series) The Jigsaw Jones Mysteries is a series of young children's detective books about Theodore “Jigsaw” Jones who solve mysteries with his friend Mila. Judy Moody and Stink by Megan McDonald (Series) Judy Moody is making a list and checking it twice, but all her brother, Stink, wants this year is snow. It hasn't snowed on Christmas in Virginia in more than a hundred years, so what are the chances that that will change? Enter the new mailman, Mr. Jack Frost, who not only looks like a jolly old elf but also seems to know a lot about weather patterns, has a fondness for the cold, and works looooooong hours during the holiday season. Plus it's the best time of the year, when strange packages and lots of surprises are swirling around, so isn't it possible that Stink might get his wish? Layla and the Bots: Making Waves by Vicky Fang and Christine Nishiyama Layla and the Bots are so excited to meet the animals at the Surfside Rescue Center! They meet a sea turtle, a sea lion, and a dolphin named Splash, who needs their help. Splash won’t eat unless there is music playing... but he likes to pick his own music! Can Layla and the Bots build a music machine that will do the job? Lucky Bunnies: Sky's Surprise by Catherine Coe and Chie Boyd Some bunnies have all the luck! !Bounce-a-Lot Festival Day is the hoppiest day of the year! Sky has been practicing her springiest, fizziest moves so she can be one of the star bouncers. But when she isn't chosen, the funniest bunny in Bright Burrow wilts like a carrot in the sun. Can the other bunnies show Sky there is more than one way to let her plucky spirit shine? |
BEGINNER CHAPTER BOOKS (continued)
My Furry Foster Family by Debbi Michiko Florence and Melanie Demmer All of Razor's playful, super-friendly littermates are being adopted, one right after the other. But not Razor. How do you find THE shyest kitten in the world his forever home? That's the big question eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her animal-fostering family need to answer in this illustrated, sweet-natured, tabby-filled chapter book. SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING BOOKS Ella McKeen, Kickball Queen by Beth Mills First grader Ella McKeen is the undisputed kickball queen until a new girl named Riya shows up—and shows her up at recess. How does Ella handle losing? By throwing herself on the grass and screaming while the rest of the class watches her fall apart. Yikes! Gibberish by Young Vo It’s Dat’s first day of school in a new country! Dat and his Mah made a long journey to get here, and Dat doesn’t know the language. To Dat, everything everybody says — from the school bus driver to his new classmates — sounds like gibberish. How is Dat going to make new friends if they can’t understand each other? Luckily there’s a friendly girl in Dat’s class who knows that there are other ways to communicate, besides just talking. Could she help make sense of the gibberish? I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes The narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He's got big plans, and no doubt he'll see them through--as he's creative, adventurous, smart, funny, and a good friend. Sometimes he falls, but he always gets back up. And other times he's afraid, because he's so often misunderstood and called what he is not. So slow down and really look and listen, when somebody tells you--and shows you--who they are. There are superheroes in our midst! I'm Not Scared You're Scared by Seth Meyers and Rob Sayegh When you're a bear who is easily scared, it's hard to have friends. Fortunately, Bear has one: Rabbit, who is very brave. One day, Rabbit urges Bear to face his fears and embark on an adventure together. However, things don't entirely go as planned, and the two friends learn the true meaning of bravery. The Magical Yet by Angela DiTerlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Each of us, from the day we're born, is accompanied by a special companion—the Yet. Can't tie your shoes? Yet! Can't ride a bike? Yet! Can't play the bassoon? Don't worry, Yet is there to help you out. The Magical Yet is the perfect tool for parents and educators to turn a negative into a positive when helping children cope with the inevitable difficult learning moments we all face. Whether a child or an adult, this encouraging and uplifting book reminds us that we all have things we haven't learned...yet! GRAPHIC NOVELS Hearts by Thereza Rowe When Penelope the Fox drops her heart into the sea, she's swept off on a perilous journey dodging sharks and royal cat-guards, until a cartwheeling chicken leads her to the garden of lost things. Pizza and Taco: Who's the Best? by Stephen Shaskan Best friends are the BEST! But WHO is the BEST? Is it Pizza or Taco? The question is debatable! They both love water slides. They both are friends with Hot Dog and Hamburger. In fact, maybe they should have a debate and get their friends to VOTE for who's the best! Can their friendship survive the race for top spot on the popular food chain? Cast your VOTE! Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons by Agnès Rosenstiehl Lilly is a spunky little girl who delights in the pleasures of each season, peering inside shells in the summer and tasting different kinds of apples in the fall. A charming, subtle book by one of France’s premier children’s book authors, Lilly learns about the outdoors and introduces the youngest readers to the colors, words, shapes that arise in nature. A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse by Frank Viva Join a young explorer and his best friend, Mouse, on a sea journey to Antarctica, where they make new friends with penguins and a whale – and have all kinds of fun. Wordplay by Ivan Brunetti Go "outside," "elsewhere," and down the "rabbit hole" with this hilarious introduction to compound words. Young readers will fall in love with the English language as they watch star cartoonist Ivan Brunetti put his sly spin on vocabulary. The lesson here? Even "homework" is fun when you let yourself play with the words. |
