Summer extension classes have been created to help students progress in reading and writing in preparation for next year. Click this link for a quick tutorial on how to access the summer extension classes.
Join in Connecticut Reads - The Governor's Summer Reading Challenge
Join the 2025 Children's Summer Reading Challenge at Welles Turner Library. To hear more about the challenge, click here.
Enjoy a good eBook or audiobook on Sora. Just log in with your school account. (TIP: Watch this quick tutorial on logging in and browsing.)
Launch into reading with Reading Rockets - Summer Reading
Read. Learn, Explore! with Start with a Book
Enjoy a good book from the:
Storyline Online contains videos featuring celebrated actors reading children's books aloud
Wonderopolis covers topics of natural curiosity and imagination that lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages
Pickleball Tournament
Kenny, Abby, and Ned got together for a round-robin pickleball tournament, where, as usual, the winner stays on after each game to play the person who sat out that game. At the end of their pickleball afternoon, Abby is exhausted, having played the last seven straight games. Kenny, who is less winded, tallies up the games played:
Kenny played eight games
Abby played 12 games
Ned played 14 games
Who won the fourth game against whom?
Math for All Ages - AnswerGPS Mathematics Website (Look under the Family Math Resources tab)
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Take part in the Commissioner's 2025 Summer Math Challenge Commissioner's Summer Math Challenge
Highlight the math in every day activities
Read short math stories together
Play math games
Find small ways to practice math at home. Our summer challenge problem for every one can be tackled as a family or as individuals. Multiple methods to solve the problem can be shared, defended, and discussed.
BedtimeMath.Org is a wonderful resource for daily math investigations.
Math Related Board and Card Games
Explore programming for kids with the Apple App Hopscotch
Learn programming and creativity with the Kodable App
Explore various Science topics with in the American Museum of Natural History
Complete an activity on the 77 Simple STEM Activities for Families sheet
Explore offline and online, at home, enrichment activities by completing a STEM Activity Calendar
Take the 30 Day Lego Challenge
Complete the CSDE Story of Me Learning Challenge (available in a variety of languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Creole, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish)
Explore fun Spanish learning games
Learn Spanish through music
Play a Spanish vocabulary game
Play the Apple Spanish vocabulary App
Complete a Spanish crossword puzzle
Visit the Historical Society of Glastonbury at two locations in town to follow the story of Glastonbury from the earliest inhabitants to modern times.
Reinforce your geography skills by creating a map of your neighborhood with both human features (buildings, streets) and physical features (ponds, hills). You can even make your own GIS (Geographic Information System)!
Take a virtual tour of a national park on the National Park Foundation website.
Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government hosts a collection of virtual learning journeys.
National Geographic Kids hosts wonderful games, videos, readings, and more!
You are the Historian! is an interactive online game created by the Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
Keep moving at home with virtual Physical Education classes
Explore activities kids love. Go Noodle has videos that are based around movement and mindfulness
Learn about how the body works, variety of health topics, emotions and life
Explore art museums for virtual/in-person offerings and hands-on activities.
Grow your visual observation skills by exploring your world. Keep a journal of sketches of what you see.
Play a game, read a book, complete an activity, watch a video, or research other Digital Nutrition Resources for Kids
Go with your family to a local/live concert this summer
Create and design your own musical instruments
Play the fitness edition of Chutes and Ladders
Complete the Healthy and Active Summer Choice Board
Enjoy summer movement by completing the July DEAM (Drop Everything and Move) fitness calendar
Have fun doing Random Acts of Fun
Choose your ingredients and building your taco with Taco Chef Workout
Explore music and sound through stories told with our collections Smithsonian Music Resources
