Thank You for a Wonderful Year!

My last blog post of the year is here! First, I want to say thank you. Thank you to all of you who supported our classroom this year. You all donated snack, wrote us thoughtful notes, brought in supplies, supported your student’s home projects, taught me the ropes at MMA, chaperoned and drove to and from field trips, gave me and our classroom wonderful gifts and were simply wonderful human beings. I so enjoyed my first year at our school and I’m thrilled to be returning next year with so many of your children.

The last few weeks of school were packed! We had field day and yearbook signings and also learned some amazing things about pollinators, animals native to China, US States and capitals and more. I’m already excited about the things we’ll learn next year, too. Which brings me to the meat of this post. Many of you asked at Parent/Teacher Conferences what you should work on over the summer. My basic answer to everyone was to read (PLEASE have your student read out loud either with you or to you for 15-20 minutes per day… break it up into more than one short session per day if needed) and to practice math facts. I wanted to share some free or inexpensive (and worth it) resources to help support this.

Utah Summer Reading Program (free for you, motivates kids to read and there are even prizes!)

http://www.readtoday.com/pages/index?page=read_with_bees

Weber County Summer Reading Program (free again, with activities throughout the summer at the library)

https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us/childrens-summer-reading

ReadWorks Summer Reading Program ($16 for the whole family for the summer, material specific to each grade level so you know it’s the right difficulty for your child PLUS if you have more than one child you can adjust the difficulty for them individually, fun activities to go with the reading passages–this is a resource I use in the classroom and it is very well done)

https://about.readworks.org/summer-reading.html

As for math, I mentioned the wrap-ups for learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. I’m linking here to the whole set, but you can search for these individually as well:

https://smile.amazon.com/Learning-Wrap-Ups-Vocabulary-Intro-Kit/dp/B000COKZJA/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=math+wrap+ups&qid=1558743869&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

There are also a wide range of flash cards available or worksheets or workbooks you can get from many places.

Over the summer I will be posting our school supply list for next year, but I likely won’t get to that until sometime in June. In the meantime, please reach out to me with any questions you might have! Again, thanks to you all for everything!!

 

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