Summer Reading and Math Assignments

 

Below are the summer assignments by grade level.  Please make sure that your child/children are prepared for the beginning of school by reading the books and doing the math assigned to their level.  All reading books are also available at the Skokie Public Library.  The 64 page version of the math books are available at Walgreens (and maybe other stores).

For Students Entering 1^st Grade

Please feel free to read these books to your child.

READING -    Read your choice of any two books

Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel                        

The Missing Tooth by Joanna Cole 

The Horse in Harry’s Room by Syd Hoff    

Max’s Dragon Shirt by Rosemary Wells    

MATH –  School Zone Math Readiness – Grade K-1 (32 pages)

 

For Students Entering Developmental 1^st Grade

Please feel free to read these books to your child.

READING -    Read your choice of any two books

I Went Walking by Sue Williams

Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? By Eric Carle

MATH – School Zone Math Readiness – Grade K-1 (32 pages)

 

For Students Entering 2nd Grade

READING -    Read your choice of any three books

Starlight by Kristen Earhart

Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger

Sammy the Seal by Syd Hoff                                

Back to School is Cool! By Jim Jinkin

The Snack Attack Mystery by Elizabeth Levy

Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

The Best Seat in Second Grade by Katherine Kenah

MATH –  School Zone Math Basics – Grade 1 (32 pages)

 

For Boys Entering 3rd Grade

READING -    Shredderman, Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen

MATH - School Zone Math Basics – Grade 2 (32 pages)   

 

For Girls Entering 3rd Grade

READING -    Read both books

Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry                            

Molly’s Pilgrim by Barbra Cohen    

MATH -   School Zone Math Basics – Grade 2 (32 pages)   

For Boys Entering 4th Grade

 

READING - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

MATH -   School Zone Math Basics – Grade 3 (32 pages)   

 

For Girls Entering 4th Grade

READING -    Amber Brown Goes Fourth by Paula Danziger   

MATH -    School Zone Math Basics – Grade 3 (32 pages)   

 

For Boys Entering 5^th Grade

READING -    Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks

MATH -  School Zone Math Basics – Grade 4 (32 pages)   

                                        

 

For Girls Entering 5^th Grade

READING -    School Story by Andrew Clements           

MATH -  School Zone Math Basics – Grade 4 (32 pages)   

                                                    

 

For Boys Entering 6^th Grade

READING -  The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill    

MATH -  School Zone Math Basics – Grade 5 (32 pages)   

                                                    

For Girls Entering 6^th Grade

READING -      Read your choice of any two books     

Meg’s Prairie Diary by Kate Mcmullan

Never Mind!: A Twin Novel by Avi and Rachel Vail          

Hazel Green by Odo Hirsch

The Meanest Doll in the World by Martin, Godwin, and Selznick

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

MATH -  School Zone Math Basics – Grade 5 (32 pages)   

                                         

 

For All Students Entering 7^th Grade

 READING - Each student will read their parents’ favorite classic novel.  If their parent does  not have a favorite classic novel, the parent may choose a different secular grade level appropriate book for their child to read***.

MATH - School Zone Math Basics – Grade 6 (32 pages)   

 

For All Students Entering 8^th Grade 

    

READING - Each student will read their parents’ favorite classic novel.  If their parent does not have a favorite classic novel, the parent may choose a different secular grade level appropriate book for their child to read***.

 

***Suggestions: The Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank Baum; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne; Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

 

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Essay Writing Contest

Huntington Learning Centers sponsored an essay writing contest at Arie Crown during the month of March. The winners of the contest are Talia Domsky (2nd Grade) and Chana Raizel Minkus (5th grade). Thank you to all of the students that entered the contest and wrote essays about their favorite adults at Arie Crown. All of the entries are wonderful. Talia and Chana Raizel have each won a pizza party for their classes! Thank you also to Huntington Learning Center for sponsoring and judging the contest.

Below are the winning essays. Click to enlarge.

 

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Erev Shira was awesome!

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