Don’t let your brain turn to mush!

To encourage reading throughout the summer check out these fun summer reading programs:

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Summer Reading Program  

Fill out the reading journal, then bring your completed journal to a Barnes and Noble store to receive a FREE book.  Click here for more information and to print your own reading journal: Barnes and Noble Summer Reading


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Undercover Readers Program

Register today for the summer reading program.  You can also download a summer reading packet and find monthly events here: Weber County Summer Reading 


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Build a Better World
From reading, to inventing, to teddy bears – there’s something for everyone. For more information click here: Davis County Summer Reading


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We have enjoyed the free pizza coupons this year from the Pizza Hut BOOK IT reading program. Click here for fun summer reading activities: BOOK IT! Summer Reading

Summer Learning
Your child has worked SO hard this year and deserves to maintain or even increase his/her skills over the summer!  Here are some ideas for keeping your child learning over the summer:

#1: READ!  

No other skill is more important to maintain over the summer months.  Children who read regularly are shown to have higher intelligence and general knowledge, less stress, better fluency, improved analytical thinking, broader vocabulary, better memory and increased writing skills. Please use every opportunity (long car rides, waits at the dentist/doctor, before bedtime, etc.) to have your child read to you.

#2: Write!

Writing is “backwards reading” and not only improves your child’s writing skills, but also improves his/her reading skills as well.  Encourage your child to use best penmanship and to sound out words phonetically, and assist your child in creating complete sentences that include proper use of upper and lower-case letters, and to include proper punctuation.

  • Encourage your child to keep a journal of events or discoveries over the summer months.  You may even have your child continue to use the extra pages in his/her first grade journal, which is in a format familiar to your child.  I strongly encourage students to write (with an actual paper and pencil!) over the summer – not just write electronically.  This helps to maintain proper penmanship and puts a greater focus on sentence structure, rather than on hunting for letters on a keyboard.
  • Electronic writing is great, too, though!  It is important that your child maintain familiarity with the keys on the keyboard! :)

#3: Math!

We learned SO many different math skills this year and it is important that your child remember these skills so that he/she can build on them in 2nd grade!  Review addition, subtraction, place value, time, measurement, 2 and 3-dimensional shapes, graphing, skip-counting, etc. with your child! ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU CAN REVIEW OVER THE SUMMER ARE THE BASIC ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS UP TO 20.  THESE WILL BE VERY HELPFUL TO KNOW FOR DOUBLE-DIGIT ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION IN SECOND GRADE!

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