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Summer Math for Students Entering Grade 1 – June/July 2012
Sunday
Monday
Tues day
We dnes day
June 17
June 18
Get a can or a box.
Collect one penny each
day of vacation.
June 19
Tell someone in your
family your phone
number. Write it.
June 20
Go to a park. How many
benches, slides, swings
and tables are there?
24
How many baby steps
does it takes to cross
the room? How many
giant steps? Which has
more steps?
25
Practice reading numbers
11-30 with ten frames.
http://www.harcourtscho
ol.com/activity/identify11
-30/
26
What day was it 5 days
ago? What day was it 7
days ago? What day will
it be in 3 days?
July 1
Look at the American
Flag. Are there more,
less, or the same number
of red stripes as white
stripes? Count the stars.
2 A full case of juice
boxes has 10 boxes.
There are only 6 boxes in
this case. How many
juice boxes are missing?
(show how you know)
8
Try counting fish at this
website:
http://www.abcya.com/
counting_fish.htm
15
Guess how much of a
room you can clean in 2
minutes. Set a timer and
clean. Did you clean more
or less than you thought?
22
Roll 2 dice (or turn 2
cards). Start with the
larger number and add
the other one. Find the
sum of the two numbers.
Play this with a friend.
Thurs day
Sat urday
22
Play Shape I Spy with
someone in your family.
27
Make your own July
calendar. How many
weeks are there in July?
How many days are there
in July?
21
Write today’s date.
How many months are
there until your
birthday?
28
Explore the website
www.abc.net.au/
countusin/games
There are 15 games to
choose from.
3
I have 6 crayons. Some
are red and some are
blue. How many red and
blue could there be? Find
and show all the ways.
4 Independenc e D ay !
Play Five Frames at:
http://illuminations.
nctm.org
Go on to Ten Frames if
this is too easy.
5
Count the light switches
in your home. How many
did you count? Write the
number. Count backwards
from that number to 0.
6
Jill has 4 marbles. Jack
gives her 2 more. How
many does she have now?
Write that as a number
sentence using + and =.
7
Go on a number hunt.
Record the numbers you
find on the houses, cars,
signs, etc. Show an adult!
9
Look for opposites. For
example, find a small ball
and a large ball, a heavy
box and a light box, etc.
10
Practice counting. Start
at 13, roll a die and
count on that amount.
Then start at 37, roll
the die again.
11
If you see 1 dog and 2
cats and 2 birds, how
many legs do you see?
Draw a picture to show
how you know.
12
Go on a street sign hunt.
What shape are the
signs? Draw the signs.
Which ones are
symmetric?
13
How much money is in
your can from June 18th?
14
How many days ago was
the Fourth of July? In
how many days will it be
Labor Day?
16
Do 50 jumping jacks and
count aloud. Ask a friend
to time how long it takes
you. Now you time how
long it takes your friend
to do them.
23
Ask someone in your
family to say 5 different
numbers. Record them on
a calculator or write
them. Show the family
member who told you the
numbers.
17
Choose a number from
1–5. Find items that
match the number. For
example, 2 eyes, 2 dogs…
Record what you find.
18
How many are in a
handful? Grab a handful
of small things in your
home and count them.
Now count backwards to
one.
25
Make your own August
calendar. Add some
pictures!
How much money is in
your can from June 18 th?
19
Pick a book. How many
pages are in the book?
How many pages would
there be if there were
one more page? Two
more pages?
26
Guess how many 2s you
would write if you wrote
all the numbers from 1 to
33. Now write the
numbers from 1 to 33.
How many 2s did you
write down?
20
Draw a picture using 3
circles, 2 triangles, 2
squares and 2 rectangles.
Hang it up in your house
when you are done.
21
Sing a song that has a
number in it. How many
songs do you know that
have numbers in them?
27
Write your name and
count the letters. Write
a friend’s name. Count
the letters. Who has the
longer name? By how
many letters?
28
Have a friend tell you a
number between 0 and
100. Start counting from
that number to 100. Now
tell your friend a
number.
24
Mystery Number. Have a
friend think of a number,
and you try to guess
what it is. You can only
ask more than or less
than questions. Now you
think of a number.
Daily A cti vi ties: 1) Record the summer weather 2) Add a penny each day and count how many there are in all
Play a Ga me: Monopoly for Kids; Racko; Uno; Yahtzee; Sorry; Trouble; Bingo; Dominoes; Blink; Go Fish; Guess Who?
Pract ice you r mat h a nd ha ve s ome fun wit h one of these websi tes:
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/month2month.htm
http://jmathpage.com/JIMSFunpage.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games.htm
http://abcya.com
Newton Public Schools
Office of K-8 Mathematics
Fri day
29
Set the table for your
family. How many cups,
plates, forks, spoons and
knives do you need? Is
there a pattern?
23
Sam had 8 seashells. He
lost 4 at the beach. How
many seashells does he
have now?
30
Go on a shape hunt. How
many circles, triangles,
squares and rectangles
did you find?
http://illuminations.nctm.org
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize
Summer Math 2012
Rising First Grade
Summer Math for Students Entering Grade 1 – August/September 2012
Sunday
Monday
Tues day
We dnes day
July 29
Help sort the laundry
for your family. How
many socks were there?
Who had the most?
July 30
Ask a friend to jump 60
times. Count out loud
for your friend. Then,
have them count for you
while you jump.
6
Draw a picture to show:
I picked 6 shells on the
beach. 2 were pink and
the rest were blue. How
many were blue? Draw
a picture and write the
number sentence.
13
Name 3 numbers smaller
than 30. Now name 3
numbers bigger than 30.
Practice writing them.
July 31
What was the date one
week ago? What will
the date be in one
week? How many days
are in one week?
7
Practice counting back
by ones in this spooky
game.
http://www.oswego.
org/ocsdweb/games/
spookyseq/
spookycb1.html
14
Make up an addition
number story for
someone in your family
to solve. Now make up a
subtraction problem.
21
Collect 50 of something.
Count them 1 at a time.
Put them in piles of 10.
Count them again. How
many piles of 10 do you
have?
August 1
Count and record how
many windows your home
has. Now count how
many doors your home
has. Write that number.
8
Sink or Float. In a small
pool, the tub or a sink,
make predictions of safe
things that might sink or
float. Then try it and
see if your predictions
were correct!
15
Count 30 objects
(stones, raisins, pennies,
etc.). Now make a pile
of 15. How many are
left?
22
Go to the Park. Give an
empty swing a push.
How many times does it
swing? Now, count the
number of swings with a
friend sitting on it.
Be safe!
29
Circle numbers you find
in a newspaper or
magazine. Count how
many numbers you
found.
7
5
Measure three peoples’
arms with string. Attach
a label on each piece of
string with each
person’s name. Put them
in order from shortest
to longest.
12
Answer these addition
questions as fast as you
can. 1+1=
2+2=
3+1=
2+3=
3+2=
4+1=
1+3=
4+1=
19
Cut out people’s faces
from a magazine. How
many noses are there in
all? How many eyes are
there in all?
26
Family Survey. What did
you like to do best this
summer? Record and
share it.
2
Choose an activity from
the Illuminations
website.
http://illuminations.
nctm.org
20
There are 5 cars in the
parking lot. Some are
red and the rest are
white. How many could
be red and how many
could be white? Find all
four answers.
27
How long does it take
for you to fill up the
tub with water at bath
time?
3 Labor D ay
Play hopscotch.
How much money is in
your can from
June 18th?
28
Draw a triangle and a
square. How many sides
does each shape have?
How many sides do they
have together?
4
The first da y of
school!
Thurs day
Fri day
Sat urday
2
Line up 10 of your toys
in order by size. Which
one is first? Third?
Eighth? Tenth?
3
Go on a shape hunt.
How many cubes,
spheres and cylinders did
you find?
4
Try a game or activity
from:
http://jmathpage.com/
JIMSFunpage.htm
9
Ten grapes were in the
bowl. I ate 4 grapes.
How many grapes are
there in the bowl now?
Draw a picture and
write the number
sentence.
16
Tell someone in your
family your name,
address and telephone
number. What year
were you born in?
23
How many stairs do you
have at your home
altogether? Write the
number down in chalk,
sand or on paper.
10
Write all of the names
of the people in your
family. How many
letters are in each
name? How many letters
are there in all?
11
Draw a map of your
room. Write how many
baby steps it takes you
to walk from one side of
the room to the other.
Will it take more or less
giant steps? Try it.
18
What is shorter than
you at your home?
What is taller than you
at your home?
30
Connect the dots to 50.
http://www.abcya.com/
connect_the_dots_1100.htm
31
Count by 1’s to 30.
Now count from 30 back
to 1. You can go to the
game from August 7th to
get more practice.
9
8
17
Cut out shapes from
magazines. Sort them
by shape. Now sort them
a different way. Show
an adult.
24
Bounce a ball 19 times.
Bounce it 2 more times.
How many bounces in
all? Count how many
times you can bounce
the ball.
25
Four dogs are playing in
the park. 3 cats join
them. How many animals
are there now?
Septe mbe r 1
Play a game of Top-It
or Go Fish.
10
En joy a Book: Ten, Nine, Eight, Molly Bang; Ten Apples Up On Top , Theo LeSeig; One Duck Stuck , Phyllis Root; Inch by Inch, Leo Lionni; Shapes, Shapes, Shape, Tana Hoban;
Chicka Chicka, 1, 2, 3, Bill Martin.
Newton Public Schools
Office of K-8 Mathematics
Summer Math 2012
Rising First Grade