Summer Reading List 2010
Choose at least two
1. Hop on Pop – Dr. Seuss
2. Have You Seen My Cat? - Eric Carle
3. Look What I Can Do – Jose Aruego
4. We Hide, You Seek – Jose Aruego & Ariane Dewey
5. I Love You, Dear Dragon – Margaret Hillert & Carl Kock
6. If All the Seas Were One Sea – Janina Domanska
7. Blue Sea – Robert Kalan & Donald Crews
8. Inside, Outside, Upside Down – Stan & Jan Berenstain
9. Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
10. Go, Dog, Go – P. D. Eastman
11. Mine’s the Best – Crosby Bonsall
12. The Carrot Seed – Ruth Krauss & Crockett Johnson
13. Whose Mouse Are You? – Robert Kraus & Jose Aruego
14. Home for a Bunny – Margaret Wise Brown & Garth Williams
15. Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? – Joan L. Nodset & Fritz Siebel
16. A Kiss for Little Bear – Else Homelund Minarik & Maurice Sendak
17. Henry and Mudge – Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson
18. Nate the Great – Marjorie Weinman Sharmat & Marc Simont
Horrible Harry and the Triple Revenge by Suzy Kline
Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha
Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride by George Selden
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Grade: 4th
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Abel’s Island by William Steig
Grade: 5th
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson study questions
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls study questions
Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes study questions
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Spanish Summer Projects
2010
Students who will be in 5th or 6th grade in August, 2010:
I would like you to take the “Spanish Steps” program: 24 mini-lessons (about 20 minutes each) with Kevin Duala who is visiting Madrid in Spain. You will practice “practical” Spanish (ordering in a restaurant, buying something in a store, etc.) through videos and practice activities. You might also like to sign up for a weekly “Spanish Tip” that will be sent to you by email Please click on the link below (you might have to hold down the control key while you click) and go through the “user guide” before you start. I would also like you to print out your “learning log” and turn it in on the first day of school. Have fun!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/
If you enjoyed “Spanish Steps” you might also like to help solve the mystery in a Spanish drama:
www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca
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Students who will be in 7th or 8th grade in August, 2010:
1) I would like you to click on this site: http://www.hablame.tv/c/hablame.tv/esp.html
And then click on “recursos gratuito” (free resources).
Over the summer, I would like you to choose at least 15 of the pictures shown
(Level 1), listen to the description while you read the text, and then write 3
sentences in English to tell what each picture was about. If you feel
comfortable, try Level 2 and Level 3. You will be surprised about how much you
understand! Turn your sentences in on the first day of class in August.
2) I would like you to click on this site:
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/online-tv-spanish.html and then scroll down to the TV stations in the purple box. Now choose a country and the television station where you would like to read and listen to the news. You can choose front page stories, or local news, or the sports……just write five short summaries (in English) of 5 news items you read or listened to.
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You can read on-line newspaper articles at one of the sites listed here:
http://spanish.about.com/od/newsfromcentralamerica/SpanishLanguage_News_from_Central_America.htm
3) If you choose to challenge yourself further, you might want to check out the
following:
a) (Please check with Mom and Dad before accessing these 12 videos in Spanish which are on YouTube):
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hablame+spanish+videos&search_type=&aq=f
b) You might also find this site helpful if you have trouble conjugating verbs: www.spaleon.com
c) Finally, if you and your family want access to many videos, games, etc. in
Spanish, you might want to join Lomas TV for $9.95 per month:
www.lomastv.com