Reading/English Language Arts Summer 2016 Adventure Calendar for Rising First Graders

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1 Reading/English Language Arts for Department of Curriculum and Instruction Office of Academic Programs Prince George s County Public Schools

2 Prince George s County Public Schools You ve learned so much in school this year! It is important that you keep your brain active over the summer to be ready for next year. In this packet, you will find a calendar of activities to last you all summer long. This year, we have also incorporated a Summer Project for the final two weeks of summer vacation. Once you have completed an activity, have a family member initial in the box on the calendar. Create a journal that you can use to note your thoughts, ideas, and any work you complete. Be sure to enter the date in your journal for each assignment you do. Directions: Ø Families should preview the calendar together. There are some activities that may require advanced planning, or you may want to consider working together with other families and friends on some activities. Ø Students should read for at least 30 minutes each day. v Students will need a Reader s and Writer s Journal to complete the summer work. Your journal will be your special place for the daily calendar work and writing. They can purchase one, or they can make a journal by stapling several pieces of paper together, or by using a notebook/binder with paper. Students should be creative and decorate the journal. Specific journaling tasks are given some days, but students may also journal after each day s reading, noting things that stood out, questions that they have, or general wonderings about the text. Ø Each journal entry should: v Have the date and assignment title. v Have a clear and complete answer that explains the student s thinking and fully supports the response. v Be neat and organized. Ø Use the chart on the last page of this packet to record all of the books read during summer vacation. Don t forget to bring your Reader s and Writer s Journal and Summer Project with you on the first day of school. Your new teachers will be so proud of your summer adventure!

3 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. The following activities are to be completed with parents help: JUNE Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Fluency Comprehension Journal Entry/Writing Vocabulary Word Work Website Library Visit Prince George s County Memorial Library presents its summer reading program, On Your Mark, Get Set, Read! 19 Visit site/events for more information and additional resources to help your summer reading experience! 26 Sight Word Fluency: Do you know the following words: come, today, went, saw, because, this, she, he, is, or with? Write these words on index cards. Practice reading them quickly. Last Day of School How would you help the character in the story? Write a sentence and illustrate what you would do. 21 Who is your favorite hero? Write about him or her in your journal. Practice forming your letters correctly. Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Make a word journal to put the new words you ll learn this summer.. 29 Think about your summer vacation. How would you describe it? Did you learn any interesting words? List them in your word journal. 23 Rhyming words have the same ending sound (For example. go-no). Make a list of rhyming words and add them to your word journal. Can you think of words that will rhyme with looks, ten, hats, man? 30 Rhyming words have the same ending sound (Ex. gono). Make a list of rhyming words and add them to your word journal. Can you think of words that will rhyme with looks, ten, hats, man? 24 Practice your sight words at ngandwriting/ Visit oo/gooey.html for phonics games and activities. Note: If you are interested in English Language Learner Support, visit for games and activities. 25 Pay a visit to your local public library and apply for a library card. Also, pick up a copy of the Summer Reading List and check out a recommended book. Summer Reading Incentive at Barnes and Noble. Read 8 books and receive a free book!

4 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. The following activities are to be completed with parents help: JULY Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Fluency Comprehension Journal Entry/Writing Vocabulary Word Work Website Library Visit 1 Visit for activities, games, stories, and parent resources. Read any book from th Max Spaniel series b David Catrow or an other book from yo recommended list. readin 3 Listen to an audio book in the car today. 10 Read a poem out loud. First read it slowly in parts with a family member and then read it again. Can you read it on your own? 4 Think about the book you read. What did you already know? What new information did you learn? What questions do you still have? 11 Read another poem. As you read, visualize by making pictures in your mind of what is happening. What do you see? 5 Write about the book that you are currently reading. If you are reading a story, make a prediction about what will happen next? Write your own poem. Illustrate your poem. Share it with a friend or family member Use the following words in a sentence. Write using letter sounds. Discuss beginning and ending sounds. that this then Can you find these words in a story? 13 Poems often relate to our five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. Review the poems that you read. Find words that relate to at least three of your senses. Here is an example: sight touch smell shiny bumpy rotten 7 What vowel (a, e, i, o, u) is missing from the words below? y_s s_x n_t b_s l_t h_d p_p m_d p_t m_x h_t c_b t_n h_s s_n b_g w_t m_ss g_t b_ll 14 Find three interesting words in a magazine or newspaper. Highlight, circle, or cut and paste the words in your journal. Talk about the words. Write a sentence using the words in your journal. 8 Time to brush up on your typing skills! Visit the Typing Factory at om/keyboarding_games/typingfactory.html to practice! 15 Visit 1-games/esl-efl-games.html to practice spelling, sight words, and read. Read Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield or another book of poetry. Read Sid and Sam by Nola Buck or another book on the recommended book list Reread the silly story. Take turns reading it aloud with a family member. Listen to how your family member uses expressions while reading. Practice! 18 Did you read a silly story? What did the characters do that made this story seem silly? 19 Create your own silly story. A duck riding a bike is silly. What other silly things can you think of an animal doing? Use your imagination. Draw a picture of the characters in your story. 20 Use the following words in a sentence. Write using letter sounds. had will up Can you find these words in a story? 21 Play I Spy. Name a beginning or ending sound and take turns identifying objects that begin or end with that sound. 22 Visit et.htm and become a member of the Club. Explore the activity lab or the book zone and write your own story by visiting mestation/storymaker/storymaker. htm 2 Read Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle o another book from your recommended summer reading list.

5 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. The following activities are to be completed with parents help: JULY (continued) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Fluency Comprehension Journal Entry/Writing Vocabulary Word Work Website Library Visit Would you In your journal, make a list of Write all the words you can make with Visit Check out a Meet My recommend the book topics that you are interested these words. for activities, games, stories, Neighbor by Marc you read from the in learning more about. -ack -ake -ay and parent resources. Crabtree. Be sure it is a summer reading list Share your list with your -eck -eat -ee book about a job that to a friend? What did family. Find books on these -ick -ill -ing you want to know more the author do to topics when you visit the -ock -op -orn about. make this book library. (Example: sack, cake, day) interesting? More Sight Word Fluency: Do you know the following words: like, have, said, my, it, will, are, on, was, or come? Write these words on index cards. Practice reading them quickly. Review your earlier words, too! 31 Read your favorite part of the library book to a member of your family, but this time read it like a news reporter on television. 27 Play the secret word with a family member. Use these words: fishing, swimming, camp, and family. Start with the first word and give clues about the meaning of words and see if your partner can guess the word. Example: I have lots of sand. People like to swim. People make castles. What am I? Answer: The beach!

6 2016 Summer Adventure Calendar 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 the another journal will be for Word Work The following activities are to be completed with parents help: AUGUST Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Fluency Comprehension Journal Entry/Writing Vocabulary Word Work Website Library Visit 1 Ask your mom or dad to choose a comic strip from the newspaper, then ask them to cut it up. Put the comic strip back together in the right order, and explain it to him or her. 2 Write a thank you note to the librarian at your library for helping you all summer long! 3 Are you ready to go back to school? Do you have your Back to School supply list? What materials do you think you will need? Illustrate and label your supplies in your journal. 4 Play Sight Word Hopscotch! Write your ten words from Sunday on paper or the ground. When you land on the word, read it aloud. 5 Visit for interactive reading games, guided reading stories, and other activities. National Dog Day is coming up later this month! Read Dogs! Dogs! by Ginger Fogelsong Guy or another book about pets. 6 7 Listen to an audio book in the car today. What new information did you learn from your reading? What questions do you still have? 8 Practice forming your letters correctly. Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj 9 10 Ask a family member to read aloud a newspaper or a magazine. Did you hear a new and interesting word? Talk about this word. Write it in your journal. 11 Make tonight family game night. Play Pictureka, Cranium Cariboo. 12 Time to brush up on your typing skills! Visit to practice! August 14-20, 2016 ~Summer Project~ Use the calendar on. the next page to complete. your project Read I Know An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly by Nadine Bernard Westcott or another fiction book. How many things did the old lady swallow? Be sure to return any books you checked out of the library. 22 Review your summer journals. Get a good night s sleep. 23 School begins for students. Have a GREAT year!

7 2016 Summer Adventure Calendar 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 the another journal will be for Word Work The following activities are to be completed with parents help: August 14 * This is a family project, so be sure to ask your parents to help you. Today you will begin your summer project. August 16 Today, you read your book to your sister or brother. They will be happy to see how well you can read. When you finish reading, ask them to help you August 17 Ask an adult to help you search the internet to find out more about your neighbor s job. Write your new facts in your August 18 In your journal complete the following sentences: answer these important questions and write the journal. Your project is to make a Meet My Neighbor poster. The poster will be about the jobs that Marc Crabtree talks about in the Meet My Neighbor books that you got from the library. Just like this picture, your poster will tell the name of the job that the book you selected explains. August 15 Ask an older sister or brother to help you while you read your Meet My Neighbor book. Read it three times with their help, and then practice reading it by yourself. answers in your journal. My A neighbor s s job is: job is to: ex., Baker A uses these tools to do their job: Tools are the things a person uses to do their job. If your poster were about a baker, then the tools they use would be a spoon, bowl, apron, and an oven. This poster describes the job of. If you are a, that means your job is to and you use these tools:,,,. Add these sentences to your poster. August 19 Plan a premiere night! Invite family members and friends over to share your summer project. They will be proud of your work! Draw a picture of your neighbor and his job. If they wear a uniform, be sure to draw them wearing it. A uniform is the special clothing that a person puts on to do their job. Remember to add the tools that you wrote about in your journal yesterday, and their names.

8 Summer 2016 Adventure ~ Books I ve Read Chart your summer adventures here! List the books you have read on this page. Depending on how fast you read and how much you read each day, you may have completed more books than suggested on the calendar. Glue or tape this document to the first page of your Reader s and Writer s Journal. Book Title Author Genre Number of Pages Recommendation to Other Readers Name: School: Summer 2016