BETWEEN GRADES 1 & 2
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Tips for Using This Book
1. Pick a good time for your child to work on the activities. You may want to do it around mid-morning after play, or early afternoon when your child is not too tired. 2. Make sure your child has all the supplies he or she needs, such as pencils and an eraser. 3. Celebrate your child’s accomplishments by letting him or her affix stickers to the incentive chart after completing the activities each day. Reward your child’s efforts with a bonus sticker at the end of the week as well. Designate a special place for your child to work. child to complete the worksheets, but don’t force the issue. While you may want to ensure that your child succeeds, it’s also important that he or she maintains a positive and relaxed attitude toward school and learning. 4. Encourage your
5. After you’ve given your child a few minutes to look over the activity pages he or she will be working on, ask your child to tell you his or her plan of action: “Tell me about what we’re doing on these
pages.” Hearing the explanation aloud can provide you with insights into your child’s thinking processes. Can he or she complete the work independently? With guidance? If your child needs support, try offering a choice about which family member might help. Giving your child a choice can help boost confidence and help him or her feel more ownership of the work to be done.
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free to frame or laminate the certificate and display it on the wall for everyone to see. Your child will be so proud!
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Skills Alignment Listed below are the skills covered in the activities throughout Weekly Reader: Summer Express . These skills will help children review what they know while helping prevent summer learning loss. They will also better prepare each child to meet, in the coming school year, the math and language arts learning standards established by educators.
Math Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction. Understand the relationship between addition and subtraction.
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Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Extend the counting sequence.
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Understand place value.
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Use understanding of place value to add and subtract. Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
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Tell and write time.
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Represent and interpret data.
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Reason with shapes and their attributes.
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Help Your Child Get Ready: Week 1 Here are some activities that you and your child might enjoy. Sizzling Synonyms! The first time your child says, “It’s hot outside,” challenge him or her to come up with as many words as possible that mean the same thing as hot . You can try this with other weather words such as cold, rainy, or cloudy . Summer Goal Suggest that your child come up with a plan to achieve a goal by the end of the summer. For example, he or she may wish to become an expert on a favorite animal or learn to count in another language. Help him or her map out a way to be successful. Periodically, check to see how your child Play a ranking game. Choose three related items and ask your child to put them in order. Ask him or her to explain the choice. For example, if you chose ice cube , snowball , and frozen lake , your child might say small, medium, and large; or cold, colder, coldest . Sun Safety is progressing. Order, Order!
These are the skills your child will be working on this week. Math • addition and subtraction within 10
• measure lengths • partition shapes into equal parts • p lace value with regrouping
Reading
• identify key details Phonics & Vocabulary • recognize words with short a Grammar & Writing
• sentence punctuation • capitalization
Talk about sun safety with your child. Ask him or her to write a list of ways to stay safe in the sun. Post it in a prominent place!
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Week 1 · Day 1: Addition and subtraction within 10
Shapes on a Snake
Write the number for each shape. Add or subtract.
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Week 1 · Day 3: Short- a vowel sound
Hunt for Short a Write the word for each picture. Use the Word Bank. Then find and circle the words in the word search.
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Look at the pictures in each box. Say the names. X the picture in each box that does not have a short- a sound.
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Week 1 · Day 3: Partition shapes
Make More Shapes
Follow the directions in each box below.
Draw a line to make two squares.
Draw a line to make two triangles.
Draw a line to make two triangles.
Draw a line to make two rectangles.
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Week 1 · Day 5: Subtraction facts from 10
Box of Chocolates Cindy Chipmunk had 10 chocolates in each box of candy. She opened the boxes to taste the chocolates inside. Look at how many chocolates are in each box now. Then answer the question. Write an equation to show how you got your answer. The first one is done for you.
10 - 7 = 3
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