OLC 2009 Summer Reading/Math List

 

Summer Reading List for Grade 1

 

·        Below you will find a list of books for you to read with your child over the summer.  Reading to your child will make him/her a good reader in the future.  It is also a great way to spend time together.

“Hop on Pop” 

 

“The Cat in the Hat”

 

“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”

 

“Sail Away Home”

 

“Rainbow Fish”

 

“The Wind and the Sun”

 

“Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?”

 

“The Mitten”

 

“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”

 

Clifford Books

 

Arthur Books

 

Frog and Toad Books

 

Biscuit Books

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Summer Reading List For the Incoming 2nd Graders for the 2009-2010 school year:

1. The Arthur Series by Marc Brown

 

2. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr.Seuss

 

3. Miss Nelson is Missing (and other stories) by Harry Allard

 

4. The Beast in Mrs. Rooney's Room (and other Polk Street School stories) by Giff, Patricia Reilly

5.Whistle for Willie (and other titles) by Ezra Jack Keats

 

6.Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel

 

7.If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (and other titles in the series) by Laura Numeroff

 

8. The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash by:Trinka Noble

 

9. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

 

10.  Corduroy by Don Freeman

 

11. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr

 

12.How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long

 

13.  Make Way For Ducklings by McCloskey, Robert

 

14. Danny and the Dinosaur (and other titles) by Sid Hoff

 

15. Amelia Bedilia (series) by Peggy Parish

 

****The students will be assessed on the summer reading by completing a Book Report on one book they have read over the summer.  The students will also be required to keep a Reading List and read at least 5 of the titles off the Summer Reading List.*****

 

Math Skills to Review over the Summer:

1.  Fact Families

2.  One Digit Addition and Subtraction

3.  Time to the hour and half hour

4.  Place value for ones and tens

5.  Measurement

6.  Skip Counting by 2, 5, and 10

7.  Shapes

8.   Number Patterns

***Students will be assessed by completing a First Grade Skills Review ******

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Dear Parents/Guardians,

         

Enclosed please find the Summer Reading list as well as the book report forms for the students who will be starting the Third Grade in September, 2009 at Our Lady of Consolation School.

 

          The children are to read six books.  They will be expected to complete a book  report on three of the books they have read.  The book reports should be done on books from the list.  This assignment  will be due September 9^th, 2009.

 

          Thank you for encouraging your child to experience the joy of reading.

 

                                                          Sincerely,

 

                                                          Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin

                                                          Third Grade Teacher.

 

Second Grade Entering Third Grade 

26 Fairmount Avenue-Tomie dePaola.  It all began when the “Big Hurricane of 1938” roared into town…then his first day of school took an unexpected turn…so did Mr. Disney’s Snow White, the movie everyone had been waiting to see. Newbery Honor Book.

Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares-Frank Murphy Shows how Benjamin Franklin, inventor, writer and scientist, created a puzzle called the magic square to keep from being bored while serving for the Pennsylvania Assembly.  Includes step-by-step instructions for creating your own magic squares.

The Best School Year Ever- Barbara Robinson The Herdmans are the most famous kids at Woodrow Wilson School.  In fact, they are the most famous kids in the whole town—and they are the worst kids in the history of the world.

Class Clown-Johanna Hurwitz Lucas Cott, the most obstreperous boy in the third grade, finds it very hard to turn over a new leaf when he decides to become the perfect student.

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective-Donald J. Sobol  Whenever ten-year old Leroy (nicenamed”Encyclopedia”) Brown’s father, Chief of Police of Idaville, had a difficult case, Encyclopedia always managed to solve it at the dinner table.

The Glorious Flight:Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909-Alice Provensen.  A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than air machine to fly to English Channel.  Caldecott Medal Book

Hailstones and Halibut Bones-Mary O’Neill Newly illustrated edition features lavish full-color illustrations from an award-winning artist, yet the poems have been left intact with all the powerful rhythm and rich language of the original.

Judy Moody-Megan McDonnell Meet Judy Moody, a third grader with plenty of attitude.  She has moods to fit every occasion and special faces she makes to go with them.
Mapping Penny’s World-Loreen Leedy Lisa’s class is learning how to make maps in school.  For a homework assignment, she decides to make a map of her dog Penny’s world.

Ramona Quimby, Age 8-Beverly Clearly Ramona Quimby, one of the most loved characters in children’s fiction, has now reached third grade.  At school, she acquires a new teacher, Mrs. Whaley, who addresses the class as “you guys.” Newbery Honor Book

A Remainder of One-Elinor J. Pinczes What’s poor bug to do?  Joe is determined.  He studies the problem, relining the twenty-five bugs in his squadron from two lines to three lines to four lines, until inspiration and fortitude result in the five lines—and Joe fits the  last.

The Skull Alphabet Book-Jerry Pallotta The Skull Alphabet Book makes young readers use their brains.  Children learn simple facts and hone their critical thinking skills as they deduce the identity of 26 different animals arranged in alphabetical order.

So You Want to be President?Judith St. George (Author), David Small (Illustrator) “There are good things about being President and there are bad things about being President.”  

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 Grade 4: Summer Reading/Math
Reading
All students will read 2 books “Ramona and Her Father” by:
Beverly Cleary must be read by all 4th graders. The second
book can be taken from the list below or any book written
by these authors.

  Suggested Titles and Authors:
"Chocolate Fever " by: Robert Kimmel Smith
"Ralph S. Mouse" by: Beverly Cleary
"Mouse and the Motorcycle" by: Beverly Cleary
"Frindle” by: Andrew Clements
"Wayside School is Falling Down" by: Louis Sachar
"Superfudge" by: Betsy Byars

  Math
Parents, over the summer months please review all times
tables on a daily basis. Addition and subtraction fact
should be review as well. I find Index cards are a great
way to review. They can be done at any time with very
little prep on a regular  basis. Fourth grade uses the
times tables all year long.  It is imperative that your
child be well versed in all the tables, 1 through 12. We
will do 2 months of review at the beginning of the school
year.  However it will only be a review.
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Incoming Grade 5 Summer Reading

Students must read TWO books:

Shiloh AND a book of their choice listed below.

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds - Will be tested on in September.

Children must read one of the following and complete a book report on it.

Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
There's a Boy in the Girls' bathroom by Louis Sachar

 

Book report will be due the first full week of school.

 

Math Skills

Students must know their multiplication and division facts (1-12) in a flash

They will have a timed test on multiplication and division facts in September.

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Sixth Grade.  Math/Reading
Math list:
adding and subtracting decimals, whole numbers and
fractions with like and unlike denominators.
Memorize multiplication tables up to the twelve times
table.
Students should be familiar with comparing fractions and
decimals as well as whole numbers (>,<,=).
Students should be able to reasonably estimate what a sum
or product might be.
Reading list:
Bridge to Tarabithia by Katherine Patterson (required)
All because of Winn Dixie by Kate De Camillo
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
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The summer math list is being posted
below for the 6^th graders who are coming into the 7^th grade.

Summer Math List.

Please over the summer review and practice the following:

Division and long division.  Practice your multiplication tables.  1-12 should be
MEMORIZED

Review Fractions: Addition, Subtraction Multiplication, Division

Review and practice Order of Operations

Pease review decimals: addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division of decimals.
 

7^th Grade Summer Reading

This summer the incoming seventh graders are required to read two books before the beginning of the new school year.  One selection is teacher mandated while the other one is selected by the student.

          All students must read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.  We will review the book in class in the first weeks of school and a major test on the book will be given during the week of September 28.  No book report is required for this book.

          Students may choose one (1) other book from the given book list.  A book report for the book is due on Monday, September 14. Guidelines/instructions for the book reports will be given to the students.

 

                      SEVENTH GRADE STUDENT CHOICE BOOK LIST

Crash by Jerry Spinelli

 

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

 

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

 

Heartbeat by Sharon Creech

 

Bright Shadow by Avi

 

The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks

 

The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

 

Secret Within by Theresa Martin Golding

 

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8^th  Grade Summer Reading

          This summer the incoming eighth graders are required to read two books before the beginning of the new school year.  One selection is teacher mandated while the other is selected by the student.

          All students must read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.  We will review the book in class in the first weeks of school and a major test on the book will be given during the week of September 28.  No book report is required for this book.

          Students may choose one (1) other book from the given book list.  A book report for this book is due on Monday, September 14. Guidelines/instructions for the book reports will be given to the students.

 

                            EIGHTH GRADE STUDENT CHOICE BOOK LIST

 

 

Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

 

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

 

Inkheart by Cornelia Caroline Funke

 

Something for Joey by Richard E. Peck

 

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

 

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War II

by Joseph Bruchac

 

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

 

Niner by Theresa Martin Golding

  

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