Summer Reading 2020
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​Rising 1st Grade Summer Learning


Required Summer Math Program:

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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.
​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.

How to Access Dreambox

 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.
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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!
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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


​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.
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