Rising First Grade2017 MATH SUMMER PACKET

Dear Parents, Each student is expected to engage in fun and consistent math practice throughout the summer to avoid the summer slide. Brains need rest too, however, so don’t forget to have fun! Summer Work Expectations and Guidelines: 1. Spend 30 minutes on DreamBox per week. 2. Print out this packet. If you don’t have access to a printer, you may pick up a hard copy at school. The student work portion is due the first day of school to next year’s teacher!

• The packet includes problems from different areas of the kindergarten curriculum. Particular areas of strength and growth are noted in your child’s report card.

• If your child completes the packet in June and doesn’t solve any math problems for the rest of the summer, she will lose some very important concepts. This packet should be spread out, repeated or tweaked along the way to provide consistent practice.

• Beyond the pencil and paper work provided, which extends into the next grade level, there are resources suggested to continuously engage in math.

Suggested Schedule: Choose a task or two from the pages attached for your daughter to work on each week. Things to continuously practice (can be done in the car, cooking dinner, etc.):

• Counting up and backwards • Counting on from a number • Counting objects and organizing objects to keep track • Solving simple +1 or +2 addition and subtraction problems

Parents: You have homework too!

• Recommended Books and Resources: • Jo Boaler’s Parent Resources: Jo Boaler's Youcubed.org from Stanford University • The Opposite of Spoiled by Ron Leiber

Family Activities:

• Involve your child in your shopping experiences. While we love to use our debit and credit cards, find time to allow your child to pay with cash.

• Board games are a wonderful way for your child to learn turn-taking, game strategies, money, counting and perseverance. These are widely overlooked but critical to developing a strong mathematician.

o Good games: Blokus, Monopoly, Parcheesi, Sorry, Mancala, Chess • Measure, cook and bake with your child!

Websites that require a subscription:

Name Website Description

ixl www.ixl.com A website that provides practice with topics organized by grade level or by standard (check privacy policy)

Name: _____________________________________ Keep track on the logs below to show the time you spent on DreamBox, completed pages from this packet, and anything else educational you did this summer. This is due the first day of school with completed math pages.

Homework Log for June: Date/Week Activity

Homework Log for July: Date/Week Activity

Homework Log for August: Date/Week Activity

Name: __________________________________________

Kindergarten Tasks for Summer Work a. Put a handful of objects in a cup. Count the objects in your cup. Make another set of objects with the same number. Record your work below.

b. Mystery Bag – have someone make a bag of mystery objects for you. Show what was in your bag. Show how many.

c. Roll two dice and add them together. Make a set of objects to match your sum. Record and repeat.

d. At the zoo I saw 8 animal legs. Who might they belong to?

e. Roll two dice and add them together. Make a set of objects to show one more/one less than your sum. Record and repeat.

f. Luis had 5 apples. Some were red and some were yellow. How many were red? How many were yellow? Record.

g. Choose two dot cards. How many dots are on each card? How many dots altogether? Record and repeat.

h. How many different pairs of dot cards can you find to equal 5 (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)? Record.

i. Pick a starting number, count on from that number as high as you can.

j. Pick a starting number, count backwards from that number until you get to 0.

k. Cameron had 10 buttons. Some were green. Some were purple. How many were green? How many were purple? Record.

l. Roll 2 dice. Draw your dice and write a number sentence to show the total number of dice.

m. Choose an object to measure with paper clips. Measure the same object again with a different object.

n. Put a handful of different objects into a cup. Sort the objects in your cup. Show how you sorted the objects and how many are in each group.

Dot Cards (Print and cut out)

Number Cards (Print and Cut to Play Card Games)

0 1 2

3 4 5

6 7 8

9 10