Summer Work - Incoming 1st Grade

Summer Work for Incoming 1st Graders

Language Arts/Reading:

• Create small rectangular flashcards to study sight words:

  • and, so, to, the, what, when, where, because

• Read at least two books from the list below. These can be read with help from an adult!

  • Ten Apples Up on Top!
    by Theodore LeSieg (Dr. Seuss), Roy McKie (illus.)

  • Quick as a Cricket
    by Audrey Wood, Don Wood (illus.)

  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
    by Bill Martin, Eric Carle (illus.)

  • The Bears' Picnic
    by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

  • Franklin Rides a Bike
    by Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda Clark (illus.)

Writing:

• Write a short story (about 3-5 sentences - or more!) either about one summer activity or trip you went on, or a creative fictional (made up) story about summertime.

Math:

• Practice counting numbers from 0-20

• Practice writing numbers 0-20

• Practice skip counting by 2’s to 20

• Practice skip counting by 5’s to 50

• Create flashcards to make fact families for the numbers 1-10

  • examples:

    • front of note card= 5, back of note card 3+2 = 5, 1+4 = 5, 5+0 = 5