Summer Resources

Having student lead read aloud time at home can be tricky. You don't want to force them to do it, for risk they'll develop a distaste for reading, but you also want to make sure they are still receiving the exposure and opportunity to practice. The books listed below are some books that your student can read to you. If they can read the whole book, great! Have them read it again. This lets them practice their fluency and build confidence. If your student is struggling, have them only do a few pages at a time. Again, the purpose is practice as well as confidence building and if your student is struggling with 70% of the page, that can be exhausting and frustrating. Encourage, don't force!

Some of the leveled readers that are on the market may say 1 (meant for kinder), but are in fact very challenging. If you're student comes to a sight word or a word that is non decodable, let them briefly try it, but then help them out. If every other word is a sight word or non decodable that we haven't covered then it is probably not the book for them (yet).

The books below are written with CVC words, sight words, and words that have mud sounds and rules that we have learned this year.

• Alphablocks (on youtube)

• Numberblocks (on netflix or youtube)

• Scratch Garden (channel on youtube)

Rainbow partners:

• • 0 - 10

  • 1 - 9

  • 2 - 8

  • 3 - 7

  • 4 - 6

  • 5 - 5

Counting by 10's

Counting by 5's

Counting by 2's

Counting *correctly* as high as you can

Adding and subtracting through 20

Being able to decompose 2 (or 3) digit numbers into 10's and "leftovers" (ones)

• •       27 

  •   /  \

  • 20        7

Extension - adding and subtracting by place value

All year your student has been working on building their social emotional tool box. Here are some tools we have used in the classroom:

• deep breaths when: transitioning activities, before going into an environment that can cause disregulation, exiting an environment that has caused disregulation, when we start to get a little coo coo bananas in an otherwise calm environment

  • inhale through the nose - full belly- exhale through the mouth slowly (at least 5) 

• validation of feelings when angry, frustrated, sad- is it okay to be sad? yes. is it okay to be frustrated? yes.

  • BUT ALSO - what is a safe way to show those feelings? what is a safe way to let me know how you're feeling?

• when a mistake is made toward another person we say the four part apology:

  • "I am sorry for ______. Next time I will ______. Is there anything you need from me to feel better?"

• before going anywhere new, or anywhere where friends have experienced struggles we all go over expectations, positive consequences following success of the event, negative consequences following an event

• affirmations of mistakes being opportunities for your brain to grow, both academically and socially/emotionally!

Finally, keep building that independence and critical thinking!