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Mohonasen Central School District Summer Math

Get Ready for Grade 1
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 vacation, 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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3
Eat a geometric treat! Change a graham cracker to a triangle shape
4
Go to 
funschool.com
5
Count by 5's to 100!
6
Count the steps from one end of your house to the other.
7
Which is less? 10 or 20? 15 or 18? 85 or 35?
8
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10
Observe and graph the weather for a week
11
Count the pillows in your house. Represent with tally marks.
12
Watch the online cartoon, "The Story of Shapes."
13
Set the table. Count the total number of items on the table.
14
Measure the length of your yard.
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17
Build shapes with mini-marshmallows and toothpicks.
18
Have someone time how many exercises you can do in 1 minute.
19
Plant some seeds, and watch them grow. Measure your plant.
20
Help Rabbit catch the carrots.
21
Make a tally mark for each piece of mail that comes to your house.
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24
Bounce a ball 6 times with one hand.
25
Observe how your shadow changes size throughout the day.
26
Practice counting past 100.
27
Sort dominoes by number family.
28
Count to 10 as you skip rope.
29

August
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
 
1
Write your numbers as far as you can go.
2
Clap your hands when you think a minute has passed.
3
Guess how many chips are in a cookie.
4
Count the fingers in your house by 5's.
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7
How many wheels are at your house?
8
Think of different ways to measure some of the shoes in your house.
9
How many wheels are at your house?
10
Look around the house for different shapes. Tally the results.
11
Make patterns with hands, feet and sounds.
12
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14
Count the days until school starts again.
15
See how many exercises you can do in one minute.
16
Try some sink/float experiments in your tub or pool.
17
Shop together. Use a calculator to compare prices.
18
Have bubble fun. Use some measuring cups.
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21
Recite and act out "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe."
22
Play a game of "Go Fish."
23
Count miles and miles to go on a trip.
24
Practice subtraction when you eat a snack like raisins or crackers.
25
Read some counting books!
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 Read a rhyming book--count the rhymes!
29
Play "UNO."
30
Look around the house. How many things are your favorite color?
31
Look at the September calendar. Count the even numbered days.


Apple Orchard Image Credit: Mrs. Linda Doulides, Bradt Primary School Kindergarten Teacher
ClipArt Courtesy of Microsoft Online.

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