London Elementary School 4th Grade Summer Challenge
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Students - Becoming a lifelong learner is important to your success. We are challenging all London students to be active and to continue learning all year long even during the summer! Please do as many of the learning activities listed below to ensure you are ready for the next grade. Have your parents sign for the activities you complete. Return this sheet to your teacher on the first day of school in August. Have a safe and happy summer!
Recommended Reading-read 20 minutes daily:*http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/birchwood/recrdng4.html
*http://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us/content/booklists/sort/t/14
http://firstlady.ky.gov/Pages/Default.aspx
*Recommended Titles: Bears in the Barn, The Report Card, A Week in the Woods, Frindle, Matilda, Amber Brown Goes Fourth, Westward to Home, Dear America Books, Hoofbeats, The Doll House People, Shiloh, Maniac Magee, Charlotte’s Web, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Flag Maker, The Grapes of Math, The Great Brain, Henry Huggins, Just Like Josh Gibson, Ultimate Kids’ Money Book, The Tale of Despereaux, A Voice of Her Own
*These are just a few titles. Please check out the websites above for more ideas and be sure to visit the Laurel County Public Library for even more books on 4th grade level. Ask the librarian for a list of books on 4th grade level / Parent Signature / Learning with Technology:
*http://teacherweb.com/KY/LondonElementary/MrsBarnard
*Compass
*IXL Math
*BBC Schools Science for all Ages.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml
Steve Spangler Science Experiments
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiments/
http://www.thinkingblocks.com/tb_addition/addition.html
http://www.multiplication.com/
http://www.maths-games.org/fraction-games.html
http://jamit.com.au/fraction-games.htm
http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Gamequarium/Math/ / Parent Signature
Community Events and Activities:
*4-H Camp, NLHS & SLHS baseball camp, NLHS & SLHS Girls & Boys basketball camp, Ripley’s Aquarium in Pigeon Forge, Salato Wildlife Center in Frankfort, KY, VBS (Vacation Bible School), Camp Andrew Jackson in McKee, KY, Williamsburg Water Park, Somerset Water Park, Cumberland Falls, Mammoth Cave in Bowling Green, KY, Prizer Point in Cadiz, KY, Shaker Village, Chain Rock in Pineville, KY, Levi Jackson State Park in London, KY, The Pinnacle Overlook in Middlesboro, KY, The Hensley Settlement in Middlesboro, KY / Parent Signature / Chores and Responsibilities:
*Taking care of pets/livestock, yard work, washing dishes, window cleaning, folding and washing laundry, making beds, cleaning room, taking out trash, helping an adult paint, gardening, raking the yard, washing the car, helping an adult cook supper, put up groceries, helping grandparents / Parent Signature
Fitness, Health and Nutrition:
*Camping, fishing, hiking, volleyball, swimming, softball, baseball, tag, catch, bicycle riding, jump rope, hop scotch, hoola hoop, flying a kite / Parent Signature / Other Learning Activities:
*Children’s museum in Lexington, Challenger Learning Center in Hazard, KY, The Planetarium in Richmond, KY, The Art Museum in Lexington, KY / Parent Signature
The Summer before . . . Fourth Grade
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda byTom Angleberger
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara OConnor
The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park
Series:
Hank the Cowdog by John Erickson
Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
The Who Was biography series
Authors:
Roald Dahl
Judy Blume
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Dan Gutman
Gordon Korman
Great books that might be suitable for reading with/by your child this summer, before entering the: 4TH GRADE
Blume, Judy. Superfudge
Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Brooks, Bruce. Everywhere
Bunting, Eve. Train to Somewhere
Butterworth, Oliver. The Enormous Egg
Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
Cleary, Beverly. Mouse And The Motorcycle
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona Forever
*Clifford, Eth. Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library!
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy
Dahl, Roald. James and the Giant Peach
Danziger, Paula. Amber Brown series
Danzinger, Paula. Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon
De Angeli, Marguerite. The Door in the Wall
DeFelice, Cynthia. Weasel
DeFelice, Cynthia. Willy’s Silly Grandma
Estes, Eleanor. The Hundred Dresses
*Fitzgerald, John. The Great Brain
Fleischman, Sid. The Whipping Boy
Greenburg, Dan. Zack Files (series)
Greenfield, Eloise. William and the Good Old Days
Hamilton, Virginia. Mystery of Drear House
Hoberman, Mary Ann. And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never be Friends **Howe, Deborah. Bunnicula
Hurwitz, Johanna. Class Clown
Hurwitz, Johanna. Class President
Hurwitz, Johanna. Teacher's Pet
King-Smith, Dick. Cuckoo Child
Kline, Suzy. Horrible Harry at Halloween
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted
Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia
*Lewis, C.S. Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
MacDonald, Betty. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
*McKissack, Patricia C. Mirandy and Brother Wind
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall
Mitchell, Margaree K. Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Family Apart (and the rest of the Orphan Train Quartet)
Park, Barbara. Mick Harte Was Here
Park, Barbara. Skinnybones
Park, Linda Sue. Seesaw Girl
Peck, Richard. A Long Way from Chicago
*Pilkey, Dav. The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Rabin, Staton. Casey Over There
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game
Recorvits, Helen. Goodbye Walter Malinski
Rylant, Cynthia. The Cobble Street Cousins: Special Gifts
Say, Allen. Grandfather’s Journey
Selden, George. Cricket in Times Square
Sperry, Armstrong. Call It Courage
Spinelli, Jerry. Fourth Grade Rats
St. George, Judith. So You Want to be President
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web
Wright, Betty Ren. Dollhouse Murders