Summer Activities for Children entering
Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten
Fun In the Summertime!
If you are looking for some fun and creative ways to help your little one get ready for Preschool and Pre-kindergarten, look no further!
Incoming 3 and 4 year olds…
Please remember that children entering preschool must be toilet trained. This alone can be a big undertaking.
Three things are important to ensure a smooth transition into Preschool:
Here are some ways to help your three or four year old to get ready for September…
Read, read, read. There are many books that help foster good self esteem and self image. "Olivia" is one of our favorites characters - she is just oozing with confidence!
Check out www.coolmath4kids.com. The activities on this sight are marked by grade level and they are great math starters and help develop problem solving and math skills.
Great books:
Check out anything by some of our favorite authors
Eric Carle www.eric-carle.com
Steven Kellogg
Fine Motor Activities
Developing those small muscles is an important part of every child’s development. Here are some fun ways to get those fingers working.
Playdough - roll it, cut it, stamp it and make lots and lots of snakes. Try these websites for great recipes.
Clothes pins - use clothes pins to hang, tag, mark things around the house and yard.
Paint - get a bucket of water and some brushes. Paint the driveway or sidewalk. The water will create great designs and will just disappear after a few minutes in the sun.
Sidewalk Chalk – drawl a mural on the driveway or sidewalk for the whole neighborhood to enjoy.
If you are looking for rainy day activities you may want to try www.familyfungo.com . You will find crafts, activities and projects for any occasion at this web site.
Make travel an educational experience by keeping a journal with your child. They will love rehashing the days events and watching you write everything down will spark their interest in writing.
SECOND GRADE ENTERING THIRD GRADE
CREATE A MOVIE POSTER For this project, pick a book from the approved list and think about how this book would be as a movie! Make a poster telling all about your “movie”...
You should include:
Title and Author
Your name in the top corner on the front
How you would rate this book / “movie” - - how many stars would you give it (1-4)
A summary of the plot (one paragraph)
List of characters
A detailed, colorful picture of the cover (or similar) that you draw
You can make your poster any size you want, but no bigger than a standard poster board and no smaller than copy paper.
Rubric:25 points in total
Title and Author - - 2 points
Book / “Movie” rating - - 2 points
Summary - - 10 points
Your name - - 1 point
List of characters - - 5 points
Picture - - 5 points
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Dear upcoming 4th-grade students and families,
This summer, spend time reading various types of text and talk about what you read. Reading in your backyard, in a fort or on the beach still counts as reading! See below for the book list to go along with the summer book report. It is due the first day of school. Happy Reading!
The Boy in the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf There used to be an empty chair at the back of Mrs. Khan’s classroom, but on the third Tuesday of the school year a new kid fills it: nine-year-old Ahmet, a Syrian refugee. ©2019 Grade Level 4-5 CLIP Carnegie Medal Children's Book Award Nominee
Brave Like My Brother by Marc Tyler Nobleman When Charlie's brother, Joe, is called up to fight in World War II, he promises to write letters to ten-year-old Charlie as often as he can. It won't make up for not being there to help Charlie out with the neighborhood bullies, but it's all Joe can do. ©2016 Grade Level 4-5
The Chestertons and the Golden Key by Nancy Carpentier Brown Summer vacation turns into an adventure for the three Nicholl sisters when Mr. Gilbert Chesterton and his wife come to town. Eleven-year-old Clare hopes to write a detective story. Eight-year-old Cece wants to be a champion roller-skater. And ten-year-old Joan just wants to learn how to play the locked piano in the family living room. But as they befriend the Chestertons, skating accidents, surprising friendships, puppet shows, and mystery solving ensue! ©2016 Grade Level 4-5
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner - tells the story of four orphaned siblings, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, who find an abandoned boxcar and make it their home while trying to avoid a grandfather they fear. Through hard work and ingenuity, they establish a life together, solving mysteries and making friends on their adventures. ©1924 Grade Level 2-6
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school—you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School’s queen bee, violates the school’s dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. ©2017 Grade Level 4-6. 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book
Flashback Four #1: The Lincoln Project by Dan Gutman Four very different kids are picked by a mysterious billionaire to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events. This time, the four friends are headed to 1863 to catch Abraham Lincoln delivering his famous Gettysburg Address. ©2017 Grade Level 4-7
George Washington’s Spy by Elvira Woodruff Ten-year-old Matt Carlton and six friends are accidentally swept back in time--to Boston in 1776! The British now occupy the city, and redcoat guards are everywhere! While the boys are being held captive by a den of Patriot spies, the girls have been taken in by a wealthy Tory family. ©2012 Grade Level 4-5
Katerina's Wish by Jeannie Mobley Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes. ©2012 Grade Level 4-7
Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects his stepmother is glad to see him go, but his dad says he’s one of the lucky ones—one of ninety boys and girls to ship out aboard the SS City of Benares to safety in Canada. ©2019 Grade Level 4-6, 2019 Golden Kite Middle Grade Fiction Award Winner, 2019 ALSC Notable Children’s Book
Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare by Gene Barretta President Abraham Lincoln grew up in a one-room log cabin. President John F. Kennedy was raised in the lap of luxury. One was a Republican and one a Democrat. They lived and served a hundred years apart. ©2016 Grade Level 2-5
Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert by Gary D. Schmidt As the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, Martin de Porres was born into extreme poverty. Even so, his mother begged the church fathers to allow him into the priesthood. Instead, Martin was accepted as a servant boy. But soon, the young man was performing miracles. 2013 Pura Belpre Award for Illustration ©2012 Grade Level 3-5
The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail by Richard Peck The tiniest mouse in the Royal Mews is such a mystery he doesn’t even know his own name! He scampers off on an epic adventure in and around Buckingham Palace with a plan to seek the advice of Queen Victoria. The exhilarating journey takes him to strange and wonderful places, but will it help him discover who he is and where he came from? ©2014 Grade Level 4-5
Raffie on the Run by Jacqueline Resnick Raffie Lipton lives a rat’s dream life. In his family’s subway station home, he has all the food he can forage from the treasure chests humans call trash cans, and the perfect shoebox bed for telling his brother his famous adventure stories. ©2018 Grade Level 3–6
Saint Bernadette Soubirous: The Little Shepherd Girl by Mary Fabyan Windeatt - a hundred and fifty years ago, Lourdes was a very little village, and Bernadette, the one who started it all, was just a very simple girl of fourteen.” So begins the story of Bernadette and her amazing encounters with the Blessed Virgin Mary. ©2010 Grade Level 1-5
Trapped in a Video Game by Dustin Brady Jesse hates video games - and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked into the new game Full Blast with his best friend, Eric, Jesse quickly discovers that he's being followed by a mysterious figure. If he doesn't figure out what's going on fast, he'll be trapped for good! ©2018 Grade Level 4-5
Wish Girl by Nikki Loftin Peter Stone’s parents and siblings are extroverts, musicians, and yellers—and the louder they get, the less Peter talks, or even moves, until he practically fits his last name. When his family moves to the Texas Hill Country, though, Peter finds a tranquil, natural valley where he can, at last, hear himself think. ©2016 Grade Level 4-6
Comic Strip Book Report
Task: Design a comic strip that retells the story of ONE of the books above. Use words, colored illustrations and speech bubbles to retell the big events of the story.
Tips:
Summer Reading Assignment
Hello Incoming 5th Graders!
Please read the following book before 1st day of school.
"Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
After you have finished enjoying your book, a school the first day. Be sure to jot down any notes while you are reading that may be helpful for class discussions. We will discuss the book and complete a book review that will count as grade.
Have a fabulous summer and I am looking forward to seeing you in September!
Religion
Go to Mass every Sunday.
If you visit a new church, make a wish.
Say the rosary in your spare time.
Read the Bible.
5th Grade Miscioscia Math work
Dear upcoming 5th grade,
The BEST way to prepare for 5th grade math is to memorize your times tables. You should be able to rattle off the answers to single digit multiplication without really thinking about it. This will help you with 5th grade math so much. 5th grade math is long division, multi-digit multiplication, fractions and intro to decimals. You need to know your times tables for all of it.
So practice practice practice your times tables.
Another way be ready for 5th grade Math is to get a 4th grade math review book that has the answers in the back. You can do a few problems and check your work.
And lastly, I have sent home a few worksheets. These are your summer math work. These worksheets will help you sharpen and keep your math skills over the summer.
They are due the first day of school.
MOST IMPORTANT – HAVE FUN, RELAX, GET OUTSIDE, PLAY, MAKE NEW GAMES, EXPLORE, AND
MEMORIZE YOUR TIMES TABLES!
Math
To be ready for 6th grade Math – a great place to start is with your times tables – practice, practice, practice your times tables over the summer. Knowing the times tables off the top of your head is the best way to head into 6th grade. Another good thing to do this summer is to get a math practice book and practice the math you learned in 5th grade. I would suggest you get a 5th grade review math book with answers in the back, so you can check your work and know that you are doing it correctly.
And lastly, I sent home a math packet for your summer work - to keep the math skills you worked so hard to earn.
Please note the math packet is due on the first day of school.
MOST IMPORTANT – HAVE FUN, RELAX, GET OUTSIDE, PLAY, MAKE NEW GAMES, EXPLORE, AND
MEMORIZE YOUR TIMES TABLES!
Please read Loyalty, by Avi
7th Grade Miscioscia Math Students
Dear incoming 7th grade students,
To help maintain your hard-earned math skills over the summer, I have attached 7 worksheets for summer work.
These worksheets will be due the first day of school.
Another suggestion to be ready for 7th grade math is to get a 6th grade math workbook with the answers in the back and work on it during the summer. If you have the answers, you can check to see if you’re doing it correctly.
I would suggest you review addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integers, fractions, and decimals; solving equations, and order of operations.
MOST IMPORTANT – HAVE FUN, RELAX, GET OUTSIDE, PLAY, MAKE NEW GAMES, EXPLORE, AND
MEMORIZE YOUR INTEGER RULES!
Please read the novel A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
For 8th grade Miscioscia Math -
Dear incoming 8th grade students,
To help maintain your hard-earned math skills over the summer, I have sent home 7 worksheets for summer work.
These worksheets are due the first day of school.
Another suggestion to be ready for 8th grade math is to get a 7th grade math review workbook with the answers in the back and work on it during the summer. If you have the answers, you can check to see if you’re doing it correctly.
I would suggest you review addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integers, fractions, and decimals; solving equations, and order of operations.
MOST IMPORTANT – HAVE FUN, RELAX, GET OUTSIDE, PLAY, MAKE NEW GAMES, EXPLORE,
MEMORIZE YOUR INTEGER RULES!