Get Ready for 5th Grade!

Summer Calendar Materials

• single-sided numeral or 5-group cards--use playing cards, print them out below, or make your own

• 1 die

• pennies

Summer Calendar Games

Addition (or Subtraction) with Cards

Materials: 2 sets of numeral cards 0─10

1. Shuffle the cards and place them face down between the two players.

2. Each partner flips over two cards and adds them together or subtracts the smaller number from the larger one.

3. The partner with the largest sum or smallest difference keeps the cards played by both players in that round.

4. If the differences are equal, the cards are set aside and the winner of the next round keeps the cards from both rounds.

5. The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

Target Practice

Materials: 1 die

1. Choose a target number to practice (e.g., 10).

2. Roll the die and say the other number needed to hit the target. For example, if you roll 6, say 4, because 6 and 4 make ten.

Shake Those Pennies

Materials: Pennies--the amount depends on the number being practiced. For example, if you are practicing sums for 10, you will need 10 pennies.

1. Shake your pennies in your hands and drop them on the table.

2. Say two addition sentences that add together the heads and tails. (For example, if you see 7 heads and 3 tails, you would say 7 + 3 = 10 and 3 + 7 = 10.)

3. Challenge: Say four addition sentences instead of two. (For example, 10 = 7 + 3, 10 = 3 + 7, 7 + 3 = 10, and 3 + 7 = 10.)