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Mohonasen Central School District Summer Math

Get Ready for 2nd Grade

Hi Parents,
Please choose at least 3 activities to complete with your child each week. It is fine to choose activities from any day, not just the date it happens to be, and we also encourage you and your children to come up with your own activities (budgeting for a family trip, for example). Towards the end of the summer, have your child create a poster (this could be on construction paper, regular paper, or something unique) that describes or shows his/her favorite project.  She/he could show the product (say, a line graph, chart, etc.), write a short description (a sentence or two, maybe a paragraph), and/or take pictures of the activity (playing Monopoly, counting money, purchasing, etc.). On the first day of school, please have your child bring his or her project for posting on a classroom bulletin board.

Thank you and have a wonderful summer,
The Mohonasen Mathematics Committee

July

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
         
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Plant a seed.  Watch it grow.  Measure it weekly.  Graph it's measurements.
4
Count how many steps down your driveway
5
Ask mom to make a cake. Measure the ingredients
6
Write an ice cream number story
7
Draw a rectangle, Divide it in thirds, color 1/3 blue
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Draw a hopscotch grid with tally marks.
11
Write your address and telephone number.
12
Do push ups, count by 10's to 100.
13
Clip $1.00 worth of coupons
14
Shoot baskets!  Keep track with tally marks.
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Make a calendar, identify and even numbers.
18
Count a handful of change.
19
Find fifty stones.  Make a shape.  Fill it in,
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Write an insect number story
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Skip 20 times.  Hop 15 times.

 

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Draw a row of tulips.  Color the 4th red, the 7th yellow and the 9th purple.
25
Play hopscotch.  Make a number sentence that equals the number you land on.
26
Make a set of addition flash cards.
27
Make a shape book.
28
Look at a calendar.  Circle every third number.  Start at 1 and count by 3's.
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August

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Count how many more days of summer vacation
1
Count the square-shaped things in your living room.
2
Count the pockets on the clothes of your family members!
3
Cut triangles from paper, make a sail boat.
4
Make a symmetrical house.
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Read a counting book like Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert
8
Count out enough money to buy an icecream cone.
9
Write down what you were doing today at 11:30 AM
10
Play restaurant, write a menu including prices.
11
Tally how many telephone calls you got after dinner.
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14  Play a game of checkers!
Jump on 1  foot 42 times.

 

15
Cut an apple in half.  Share it with a friend.
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How many tablespoons of sugar fill a drinking cup.  
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Who can run fastest?  Count how fast your friend can run from one point to another
18
Tally how many bubbles you can blow.
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21
Count out 30 cents with dimes nickels and pennies.
22
Set your alarm clock for 7:45 PM.  Write down what you were doing when the alarm rings!
23
Draw a shape town on your driveway with chalk.
24
Make a lost tooth graph.
25
How many steps does it take to walk across your backyard?
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 Have someone count how long you can hold your breath.
29
Make a set of subtraction flash cards.
30
Measure the length of your dining room table in inches and centimeters.
31
Bounce a ball 100X


Apple Orchard Image Credit: Mrs. Linda Doulides, Bradt Primary School Kindergarten Teacher

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