For 2Nd Graders Entering 3Rd Grade

Maggie’s Summer Workout Plan

for 2nd graders entering 3rd grade

Prevent the Summer Slide!

In order to help your child retain the skills learned in second grade, we have attached a summer calendar listing daily review activities in math and writing for your child to complete. These activities should take no longer than 20 – 30 minutes each to complete.

Math Practice

In the summer calendar listing, your child will make addition and subtraction cards to practice throughout the summer to help him/her retain fluency. Your child should practice these facts at least 3 times per week throughout the summer. Use the calendars below to keep track of the days you have practiced your math facts. Just color in the rectangle on any day when you practiced for at least 10 minutes. Use red crayon or marker for addition facts, blue for subtraction facts, or purple if you practiced both.

June

Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1 / 2 / 3
4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17
18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / 24
25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30

July

Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday
1
2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22
23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29
30 / 31

Game Directions: The calendar listing includes math games that you and your child can play. Directions and/or materials for each game can be found at the end of this packet.

Week 1
May 29 – June 2 / ELA
*Basic Level: 5 sent. Challenge Level – 10 sent. / Math / Social Skills
Mon. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, discuss the beginning, middle, and end.
Journal Entry: Write about your favorite school activity. (Make sure your topic is in your opening sentence.) / Make addition flash cards using the digits 0-20. Practice with them 3 times per week throughout the summer. / Memorize your home address.
Tues. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the central message (moral/lesson).
Journal Entry: Write about something you and a friend liked to do at recess. (Use transition words.) / Make subtraction flash cards using the digits 0-20. Practice with them 3 times per week throughout the summer. / Memorize your home address.
Wed. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the problem and solution.
Journal Entry: Write about your favorite snack at school. (Use descriptive words.) / Practice counting by writing the numbers 1-100 in sand at the beach or with sidewalk chalk. Circle the even numbers. / Write out your home address.
Thurs. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the character traits. (Ex: kind, cooperative, respectful, etc.) Explain your thoughts/reasoning.
Journal Entry: Write about something you did the last week of school that was fun. / Count by 5s from 15 to 200. / Memorize your city, state, & zip code.
Fri. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify new vocabulary words. Use these new words in sentences of your own. (written/oral)
Journal Entry: Write something special you plan to do this summer. (Include the characters and the setting.) / Count by 10s from 50 to 250. / Write out your city, state, & zip code.
Week 2
June 5 – June 9 / ELA
*Basic Level: 5 sent. Challenge Level – 10 sent. / Math / Social Skills
Mon. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, describe the setting.
Journal Entry: Make a card and send it to a special friend. / Count by 2s from 2 to 200 / Learn your full name; first, middle, last name.
Tues. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, discuss the plot/main idea.
Journal Entry: If you could be granted three wishes, what would they be? / Count by 3s from 3 to 99 / Learn your parents’ full name.
Wed. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, compare and contrast two characters.
Journal Entry: Make a list of as many words you can think of that pertain to summer. / Play Hopping on a Number Line on the web. Follow website directions below:
Go to: illuminations.nctm.org.
Type “Hopping on a Number Line” in the search site box.
Click on 3-5 and press “search”. / Learn your sibling’s full name.
Thurs. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the author’s purpose. (Persuade, Inform, & Entertain) Explain.
Journal Entry: After reading a good book or watching your favorite show, write about some of the character traits of the main character. / Practice basic facts for addition and subtraction through 20. / Learn your grandparents’ full names.
Fri. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify new vocabulary words. Use these new words in sentences of your own. (written/oral)
Journal Entry: Plant a flower and write the steps on how to plant a flower. / Count by 10s from 50 to 250. / Of all the names in your family, do some have special meaning?
What would you like to be called as a nickname & why?
Week 3
June12 – June 16 / ELA
*Basic Level: 5 sent. Challenge Level – 10 sent. / Math / Social Skills
Mon. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the genre. (Ex. fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction, informational, etc.)
Journal Entry: Write a letter to your second grade teacher and tell her about some things you are doing this summer. You can mail it to the school. / Visit one of the math websites for 15 minutes every day this week. (See attached list.) / Memorize your mom or dad’s cell phone number.
Tues. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, look for connections such as text-to-text, text-to-self, or text-to-world. Explain.
Journal Entry: Write a journal response after reading your favorite book and/or television show. Summarize the key details in the story. / Count backwards from 100 to 0. / Memorize your mom or dad’s cell phone number.
Wed. / Reading Skill: Using a current book, magazine, or informational text, identify text features. (Ex. table of contents, tables, diagrams, maps, index, labels, captions, etc.)
Journal Entry: Make the grocery list for mom this week. Make sure to use bulleted words. / Count backwards by 10s from 200 to 0. / Practice writing your mom or dad’s cell number.
Thurs. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the central message (moral/lesson).
Journal Entry: Write a weather report. Present it to someone in your family. / Count backwards by 5s from 100 to 0. / Learn one other emergency phone number.
Fri. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify new vocabulary words. Use these new words in sentences of your own. (written/oral)
Journal Entry: Pick something to cook today and create your own recipe, with the help of an adult. Write the recipe and steps to make it. / Practice doubles facts for addition up to 20. / Practice writing that other emergency phone number.
Week 4
June19 – June 23 / ELA
*Basic Level: 5 sent. Challenge Level – 10 sent. / Math / Social Skills
Mon. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, discuss the beginning, middle, and end.
Journal Entry: Write a letter to someone special in your family and tell them why they are special. / Visit one of the math websites for 15 minutes every day this week. (See attached list.) / Learn to tie a shoe, even if you wear sandals or Velcro.
*If you already know how, try learning how to do it one handed! It is possible, but difficult.
Tues. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the problem and solution.
Journal Entry: Create an acrostic poem using the word June or summer. / Find out how many ways you can make 1 dollar using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. / Memorize a favorite: song, poem, quote, scripture, etc.
Wed. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the character traits. (Ex: kind, cooperative, respectful, etc.) Explain your thoughts/reasoning.
Journal Entry: Use the internet, magazine, or a book to explore a place you would like to visit. Write a story about what you learned. / Create and solve number stories with family members. / Learn to zip a zipper independently.
*If you already know how, try learning how to use chop sticks to pick up grape-sized items.
**If you don’t have chopsticks, use two pencils.
Thurs. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the author’s purpose. (Persuade, Inform, & Entertain) Explain.
Journal Entry: Write a movie review for a movie or T.V. show you watched this summer. / Practice doubles facts for addition up to 20. / Learn to whistle. Discuss with a parent when it is & isn’t appropriate to whistle.
Fri. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify new vocabulary words. Use these new words in sentences of your own. (written/oral)
Journal Entry: Visit the park and make a list of all the insects you come across. What is your favorite one? / Ask an adult for the coins in their wallet and count how much they have. / Perform the selection you memorized on Tues. for an actual audience (family, friends, neighbors). Be sure to make eye contact, smile, & speak/sing loud enough for the audience to hear you.
Week 5
June 26 –June 30 / ELA
*Basic Level: 5 sent. Challenge Level – 10 sent. / Math / Social Skills
Mon. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, compare and contrast two of the main characters. How are they similar and different?
Journal Entry: Write about what you most liked about the month of June. / Visit one of the math websites for 15 minutes every day this week. (See attached list.) / Learn to snap your fingers. Discuss with a parent when it is & isn’t appropriate to snap your fingers.
Tues. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, predict what you think will happen in the next episode/chapter.
Journal Entry: After reading a good book or watching your favorite show, make up a different ending. Write a new ending to the story. / Identify days of the week and months of the year. / Confirm that you still remember your street address,
city, state, & zip code by stating and writing it out.
Wed. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the character’s traits. (Ex: kind, cooperative, respectful, etc.) Explain your thoughts/reasoning.
Journal Entry: Play a video game and write the steps to follow in order to play. / Play fishing for ten with family or friends. Directions are attached. / Learn to button a button independently.
*If you already know how, try learning how to use chop sticks to pick up M&M-sized items.
Thurs. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the problem and solution.
Journal Entry: After reading a good book or watching your favorite show, compare the main character to yourself. How are you alike and how are you different. / Practice doubles facts for addition up to 20. / Make a list of yourfamily’s favorite “sayings.” Discuss what family values are implied by those “sayings.” Ask your parents what your grandparents’ favorite “sayings” were.
Fri. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify new vocabulary words. Use these new words in sentences of your own. (written/oral)
Journal Entry: Have someone drive you to the library or book store. Write the directions to get there. / Count by 10s to 194, starting at 4.
Count by 10s to 168, starting at 8.
What did you notice about the numbers you say? / Confirm that you still remember your mom or dad’s cell number by stating & writing it out.
Week 6
July 3 –July 7 / ELA
*Basic Level: 5 sent. Challenge Level – 10 sent. / Math / Social Skills
Mon. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the genre. (Ex. fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction, informational, etc.)
Journal Entry: Write an acrostic poem using the word July. / Visit one of the math websites for 15 minutes every day this week. (See attached list.) / Practice greetings with a smile & eye contact:
“Good Morning” or
“Buenos Dias”
Tues. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, look for connections such as text-to-text, text-to-self, or text-to-world. Explain.
Journal Entry: Write 5 sentences describing your favorite summer day. / Count by 5s from 25 to 210.
Count by 10s from 80 to 900.
Count by 3s to 99. / Memorize a 2nd favorite: song, poem, quote, scripture, etc.
Wed. / Reading Skill: Using a current book, magazine, or informational text, identify text features. (Ex. table of contents, tables, diagrams, maps, index, labels, captions etc.)
Journal Entry: Write about a problem you had this summer. How was it solved? / Find and identify shapes around your home. / Confirm that you still remember theother emergency phone number by stating & writing it out.
Thurs. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the author’s purpose. (Persuade, Inform, & Entertain) Explain.
Journal Entry: Write a list of 5 healthy foods that you like to eat. What is your favorite? / Play “Coin Exchange” game with a friend or family member. Directions are attached. / Discuss with a parent how to handle a disagreement with another student that you don’t know. Is it any different than how you would handle a disagreement with someone you do know?
Why or why not?
Fri. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify new vocabulary words. Use these new words in sentences of your own. (written/oral)
Journal Entry: Imagine you had your own restaurant. Make a menu and name for your restaurant. Find pictures on the internet or in a magazine to cut and glue. / Look at a clock. What time will it be in 4 hours? / Perform the 2nd selection you memorized on Tues. for an actual audience (family, friends, neighbors). Be sure to make eye contact, smile, & speak/sing loud enough for the audience to hear you.
Week 7
July 10 –July 14 / ELA
*Basic Level: 5 sent. Challenge Level – 10 sent. / Math / Social Skills
Mon. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, discuss the beginning, middle, and end.
Journal Entry: Make a list of some new school supplies you would like to buy. / Visit one of the math websites for 15 minutes every day this week. (See attached list.) / Practice greetings with a smile & eye contact:
“Good Morning” or
“Buenos Dias”
Tues. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the problem and solution.
Journal Entry: Create your favorite joke and present it to someone in your family. / Look at a calendar. How many days are left until school begins? How many weeks? Predict how many will be sunny, rainy, or cloudy. How can you keep track? / Memorize a 3rd favorite: song, poem, quote, scripture, etc.
Wed. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, compare and contrast two of the main characters. How are they similar and different?
Journal Entry: Write about someone special you visited this summer. (Use descriptive words.) / Find three objects in the house that measure less than a foot. Measure them in inches and then in centimeters. / Practice greetings with a smile & eye contact:
“Hello” or “Bonjour”
Thurs. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify the central message (moral/lesson).
Journal Entry: Pick a country that you want to learn more about. Visit the library or the web and find information and pictures. Write a story telling everyone what you have learned. / Look at a clock. What time will it be in 6 hours and 30 minutes? / Practice opening doors and holding doors open for family members.
Fri. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, identify new vocabulary words. Use these new words in sentences of your own. (written/oral)
Journal Entry: Write a weather report. Present it to someone in your family. / Make a homemade pizza. When it is finished, cut the pizza in halves, then fourths and finally eighths. / Perform the 3rdselection you memorized on Tues. for an actual audience (family, friends, neighbors). Be sure to make eye contact, smile, & speak/sing loud enough for the audience to hear you.
Week 8
July 17 –July 21 / ELA
*Basic Level: 5 sent. Challenge Level – 10 sent. / Math / Social Skills
Mon. / Reading Skill: Using your current book and/or a television program, predict what you think will happen in the next episode/chapter.