Rising 1st Grade Summer Learning
Required Summer Math Program:
Practicing 3 lessons a week consistently every week of the summer (30 lessons total) will help ensure that skills are reinforced to prepare for a smooth transition back to school in August. If your child wants to do more (because the program is fun!), all the better.
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This summer Athens Academy students will continue to use DreamBox, a rigorous, adaptive, and engaging online math program to help students reinforce their math proficiency over the summer months and smoothly transition back to school in August. Please know that we have spent time working with DreamBox in an effort to make this year’s summer learning even better. We were able to work with DreamBox and your child’s teacher to best identify an initial student placement for their summer work this year.
This year, the $15 payment for DreamBox will be processed automatically through students' Smart Tuition accounts. |
To encourage continued growth in reading skills through the summer, the following list of titles has been compiled by the classroom teachers and media specialist to assist children and parents in the selection of books. It is not necessary to limit your choices to these titles, as there are many excellent books also available through your local library. We ask that students spend at least twenty minutes a day reading or being read to.
Want more ideas?
If you are interested in seeing other recommended book lists, a good place to start is the ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children) website.
Click here to download a Reading Rockets Parents’ Tip Sheet with ideas on how to help your child become a successful reader.
Take the Summer Literacy Challenge! Included here are ten ideas for parents that can make summer a time of learning, creative expression, and above all, fun!
Finally, Start with a Book is a fantastic website full of ideas about summer reading activities you can share with your kids. Each theme includes book ideas, activities, websites with interactive media, and much more.
Want more ideas?
If you are interested in seeing other recommended book lists, a good place to start is the ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children) website.
Click here to download a Reading Rockets Parents’ Tip Sheet with ideas on how to help your child become a successful reader.
Take the Summer Literacy Challenge! Included here are ten ideas for parents that can make summer a time of learning, creative expression, and above all, fun!
Finally, Start with a Book is a fantastic website full of ideas about summer reading activities you can share with your kids. Each theme includes book ideas, activities, websites with interactive media, and much more.
Rising 1st - suggested titles
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PICTURE BOOKS Aardema, Verna, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears Ackerman, Karen, Song and Dance Man Allard, Henry, Miss Nelson is Missing Allen, Pamela, Who Sank the Boat? Barracca, Debra, Taxi Dog Barrett, Judi, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing Beaumont, Karen, I Like Myself Brenner, Martha, Abe Lincoln’s Hat Brett, Jan, The Mitten; The Hat Brown, Marc, Any "Arthur” books Brown, Ruth, The World that Jack Built Cannon, Janell, Stellaluna Capucilli, Alyssa, Biscuit books Carle, Eric, Have You Seen My Cat?; The Very Busy Spider; The Very Hungry Caterpillar; The Very Quiet Cricket Cherry, Lynne, The Great Kapok Tree Deedy, Carmen Agra, The Library Dragon DePaola, Tomie, Any books Duvoisin, Roger, Petunia; Veronica Eastman, P.D., Big Dog – Little Dog; Go, Dog. Go! Fatio, Louise, The Happy Lion Flack, Marjorie, The Story about Ping Fox, Mem, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Gag, Wanda, Millions of Cats Henkes, Kevin, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Hoban, Lillian, Any “Arthur” books Hoban, Russell, Any “Frances” books Hutchins, Pat, The Doorbell Rang Joyce, William, The Leaf Men Keats, Ezra Jack, The Snowy Day Kellogg, Steven, Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale Kimmel, Eric, Any “Anansi” books Lionni, Leo, Little Blue and Little Yellow; Swimmy; Frederick; Leo the Late Bloomer Lobel, Arnold, Any book in the “Frog and Toad” series Lopshire, Robert, Put Me in the Zoo Martin, Bill, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Chicka Chicka Boom Boom; Barn Dance Mayer, Mercer, There’s an Alligator Under My Bed McCloskey, Robert, Make Way for Ducklings O’Neill, Alexis, The Recess Queen Neitzel, Shirley, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow Nees, Susan, Missy's Super Duper Royal Deluxe series Numeroff, Laura, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and others in series Parish, Peggy, Any “Amelia Bedelia ” books Peet, Bill, Eli Pfister, Marcus, Rainbow Fish Polacco, Patricia, The Keeping Quilt; Rechenka’s Eggs; Thundercake Rylant, Cynthia, The Relatives Came |
Sendak, Maurice, Chicken Soup with Rice; One Was Johnny; Where the Wild Things Are Dr. Seuss, Any books Shannon, David, A Bad Case of Stripes Silverstein, Shel, The Giving Tree Slobodkina, Esphyr, Caps for Sale Stevens, Janet, Tops and Bottoms Van Allsburg, Chris, The Polar Express Viorst, Judith, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible , No Good, Very Bad Day Waber, Bernard, Ira Sleeps Over; Ira Says Goodbye Walsh, Ellen Stoll, Mouse Count Wells, Rosemary, Noisy Nora Willems, Mo, Elephant and Piggie books Wood, Don and Audrey, Heckedy Peg; The Napping House; King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub Yorinks, Arthur, Company’s Coming FOLKTALES AND FABLES There are many versions of these classical folktales: Aesop’s Fables Cinderella Gingerbread Man Goldilocks and the Three Bears Rapunzel Rumpelstiltskin The Little Red Hen The Three Billy Goats Gruff Three Little Pigs POETRY Florian, Douglas, Bing, Bang, Boing Prelutsky, Jack, Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young Silverstein, Shel, Where the Sidewalk Ends; A Light in the Attic Mother Goose Rhymes and Nursery Rhymes SERIES RECOMMENDATIONS For the beginning reader: Park, Barbara, Junie B. Jones series Rylant, Cynthia, Henry and Mudge series Sharmat, Marjorie and Craig, Nate the Great series Any I Can Read Book - levels 1 & 2 All Aboard Reading – Grosset & Dunlap Hello Readers Level 1 – Scholastic Step into Reading – Random House Bob Books – Scholastic MATH Anno, Mitsumasa, Anno’s Magic Seeds Appelt, Kathi, Bats Around the Clock Hutchins, Pat, The Doorbell Rang Lionni, Leo, Inch by Inch Powell, Polly, Monster Math Tang, Greg, Math Fables Wood, Audrey, Ten Little Fish SCIENCE Cole, Joanna, any “Magic School Bus” book Heller, Ruth, Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones Any non-fiction books on Plants, Trees, Bears, Birds, Insects, or Weather. |