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Here are some great activities to foster learning and retaining skills throughout the summer.
Read, read, read!
* Start a neighborhood Book Club
*Watch the TV with the sound off and closed captioning on.
*Listen to books on tape or CD (available at the public library) or download books onto your iPod (audiblekids.com).
Stories online: elementary middle school
www.antbee.com www.4to40.com
www.storyplace.org www.americanfolklore.net
www.magickeys.com www.childhoodreading.com
www.nationalgeographic.com
www.kidsmystery.net
www.timeforkids.com/tfk/kids
Spelling/ Written Language
*Create a poster
*Make a joke book
*Write or copy a comic strip with your own illustrations
*Find 5 new words in the dictionary and draw a picture of the meaning
*Cut words out of magazines and create your own sentences
*Put tracing paper over anything and copy it in fun colors
*Write a family grocery list
*Put together a writing box
*Use color change markers
*Use scented markers
*Use battery operated pens
*Write with chalk
*Write with fun pens
*Write in or on clay, sand, rice, shaving cream, or salt
*Create a picture book with other children
*Write stories
*Write a letter, find a penpal
*Write a play or puppetshow and act it out for family members
*Create a travel journal, poster, or banner
*Spelling/Writing Games: www.superkids.com www.wordcentral.com
www.jcplayzone.com www.schoolexpress.com
www.puzzlemaker.com www.greatschools.net
www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm
Create picture books! Draw your own picture and write your story. Or, write a story for another child's artwork at
http://storytrain.kids-space.org/
Math
*Make math fact books
*Make up math rhymes. Example: 9 times 6 is 54, I like math, let's do some more!
*Record your own fact tapes on cassette, and listen to them in the car or before going to bed.
*Use dice to practice math facts
*Use a deck of cards to practice math facts: war- pull two cards and multiply/add them together. Whichever product/solution os higher gets to keep the pair. Concentration: place all cards face down. Draw 2 cards and add/multiply/subtract etc. If solved correctly you get to keep the pair.
*Practice facts by drawing in the sand, shaving cream, or rice
*Make math facts out of tin foil, clay, or playdoh
*Use foam or magnetic numbers to make facts
*Give your child a 'number of the day'. THe child finds at least 3 ways to make the number. For example: # 101. (100+1, 105-4, 101x1)
*Make up word problems using a calculator and information from menus, catalogs, or newspaper. For example: If you had $500 to redecorate your room, what would you buy from this catalog. How much money would be left over? Make a list of everything we could use for the house from a store ad, spending $100.
*Place a piece of paper ontop of sand paper. Write your math facts on the paper.
*Have a parent trace math facts on your back with their finger.
*Use a marker to write math facts on a beach ball. Toss and catch the ball. Solve the math fact that your hand lands on, when catching the ball.
Math Skills Websites:
http://www.bingocardprinter.com/ Math Bingo
www.aaamath.com
Free Worksheets: www.dadsworksheets.com
www.factmonster.com
Money www.younginvestor.com
Flash card games www.aplusmath.com
Make your own flashcards www.scholastic.com
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/mathball/index.html Tackle Football Math. Pick your own sports team
Spanish
www.eslflashcards.com math vocabulary
www.pdictionary.com Internet Spanish Picture Dictionary
www.storyplace.org/sp/storyplace.asp la biblioteca digital de ninos
www.chicospl.com
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