HAVE A SAFE AND RELAXING SUMMER!

I would like to thank Mrs. Gomes, our Class Mother for all that she has done for the children and me.  Mrs. Gomes worked very hard on all our celebrations and Moving –Up Ceremony. 

• Sign up at the Library. Read, Read, Read!!!
• Write in your journal. Describe and draw your favorite animal.
• How did you celebrate the 4th of July?
• Draw and write 3 sentences about the fireworks you saw.
• Practice your sight words daily. How many do you know? Write 5 of them in sentences.  Remember spacing and capitals & periods.
• Go outside and write a list of all the yellow things you can find.
• Write a story about your pet or a pet you would like to have.
• Find an object in your house that begins with each letter of the alphabet.
• Use only the letters in your first name to write as many words as you can.
• Write words belonging to the at, it, et, ot, ut family. Read them to someone.
• Imagine the perfect ice-cream sundae.  What would it be on? What flavor would you choose? Journal entry!
• Go outside. Find 4 things: something smooth, something rough, something soft, something hard.
• Write and count the numbers from 1 to 100. Count and write numbers by 2's, 5's and 10's to 100.
• Write the vowels on a sheet of paper. Think of a word for each vowel sound.
• Estimate how many chairs are in your house. Count them and see how close you were. Record your results.
• Make little signs to name things in your room. Put them up in your room.
• Use cereal or other small items. Make an ABC pattern. Draw it. Then make an AABB pattern.
• Write an addition and subtraction story and draw about it. Write the number sentences.
• Think about your 5 senses. Use magazines to make a display of things you like to smell, hear, taste, touch and see.
• Buy a pack of regular Skittles. Sort them by color. Make a graph of your results. Then use tally marks. Remember to cross on five.
• Write and draw about your summer adventures?

Summer Books 
A Fourth of July on the Plains,Jean Van Leeuween
A Summer Day,Douglas Florian
A Summer in the South,James Marshall
A Summertime Song,Irene Haas
Camp Granada,Frane Lessac
County Fair, Laura Ingalls Wilder
County Fair, Raymond Bial
Fireflies at Midnight,Marilyn Singer
From the Bellybutton of the Moon and other summer poems,Francisco X. Alarcn
Happy Birthday, America,Mary Pope Osborne
It's Summertime!, Elaine W. Good
Lucy's Summer,Donald Hall
One Hot Summer Day,Nina Crews
Summer,June Factor
Ten Flashing Fireflies,Philemon Sturges
The Summer of the Monkeys,Wilson Rawls~ Lighthouses ~Abbie Against the Storm,Marcia Vaughn
Beacons of Light: Lighthouse,Gail Gibbons
Birdie's Lighthouse,Deborah Hopkinson
Keeper of the Light,Patricia Curtis Pfitsch
Kinnakeet and the Lighthouse,Jon Fripp
Lighthouse Dog to the Rescue,Angeli Perrow
Little Toot and the Lighthouse,Linda Gramatky-Smith
One Lighthouse, One Moon,Anita Lobel
Searching the Lights,Margie Willis Clary
The Berenstain Bears and the Haunted Lighthouse,Stan Berenstain
The Light at Tern Rock,Julia L. Sauer
The Lighthouse Children,Syd Hoff
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge,Hildegarde Swift