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Below, you will find some summer reading and math suggestions.
READING
PROFICIENT LEARNER (3rd, 4th, & 5th)
Students reading at the proficient level are usually in the third, fourth, and sometimes fifth grade. The daily newspaper is also a great source of reading material for these strong readers.
Stone Fox
American Girls
The Boxcar Children
The Black Stallion
Little House on the Prairie
Ramona
Wayside School
Charlottes Web
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Stealing Home
The Trumpet of the Swan
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
My Side of the Mountain
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Among the Barons
Shilohs Season
Summer of the Swans
Because of Winn Dixie
Berenstein Bears
A Wrinkle in Time
What Do You Do With A Kangaroo
MATURING LEARNER (5th)
Students reading at the maturing level are usually in the fifth grade. These children find reading entertaining and may read for extended periods of time. The biggest challenge is finding books that are appropriate, but still challenging.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Best School Year Ever
Black Beauty
Brians Return
Call of the Wild
Hatchet
The Hobbit
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Other Side of the Mountain
The Phantom Tollbooth
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Sounder
Sea Full of Sharks
Beetles, Lightly Toasted
Rascal
Saving Shiloh
Tracker
Treasure Island
White Fang
The Yearling
Call It Courage
Where the Red Fern Grows
Chronicles of Narnia
Mr. Poppers Penguins
Old Yeller
Shilo
MATH
Math Study Skills for Summer (5th Grade)
Mental Math
Basic multiplication and division facts to 12
Estimate sums, differences, products, and
quotients
Know factors and multiples to go along with
basic facts
Multiplying with patterns of zero
Ex.: 12x10 =120 or 12x100=1,200
Dividing with patterns of zero
Ex: 120χ10=12 or 1,200χ12=100
Multiplying decimals by powers of 10
Ex: 12.467x100=1246.7
Dividing decimals by powers of 10
Ex: 34,689.6χ1000=34.6896
Recognize numbers that are divisible by 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 9, and 10
Identify prime and composite numbers
Recognize numbers through the hundred millions
and thousandths
Identify the values of digits through hundred
millions & thousandths
Round whole numbers and decimals
Identify polygons from triangle(3 sides) to
octagon(8 sides)
Identify angles: acute, right, and obtuse
Procedures
Multiplication with 1, 2, or 3 multipliers
Ex. 23x7 123x62
Division with & without out remainders (1 & 2
digit divisors)
Ex. 69 χ3 692χ3 69χ12 (Use multiplication to
check.)
Averaging (Mean)
Add fractions with common and uncommon
denominators
Represent fractions in simplest form
Sixth Grade Skills (Chapter 1)
Understanding Whole Numbers
Reading & Writing Decimals
Comparing & Ordering Decimals
Estimating with Decimals
Adding/Subtracting Decimals
Multiplying Decimals
Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1,000
Dividing Decimals
Order of Operations (Please Excuse My Dear
Aunt Sally.)
Be sure to practice solving word problems that include the skills listed above.
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