Welcome to Mrs. Vassey's 4B Classroom!

June 10 - August 30, 2010

Please print a copy of the summer packet for you rising fifth grader from the SJS Web Page. Links to recommended book lists will be there as well as at the bottom of this page.

Encourage your child to read over the summer. It is the single most important thing you can do to help your child continue to learn. Weekly trips to the library are encouraged. Perhaps your child could sign up for the Mechanicsburg Library's Summer Progran which was presented at school during the final library class.

Keep a journal of your summer days and your summer travels. Write to someone about a vacation you took. Send a postcard to a friend. Maybe you'll receive one in return! E-mail is faster, but there is nothing like receiving a handwritten letter!

Start a book club with a few good friends. Read the same book and get together to discuss it. Make a board game featuring the events and characters of the book. You could use the book which is required summer reading for new fifth graders. If there is a video of the book, watch it together and discuss the differences between the two media. Which did you prefer and why?

Purchase a fourth grade review math workbook at a bookstore or a learning supply store. Do a few pages each week to keep in practice. Review the facts often!

Log onto /http:/www.firstinmath.com/ using your user name and passwork from this school year. You will have access to this website until the end of July!

Don't forget to complete the math pages/calendar activities included in your summer packet.

Go to the library or bookstore to read more about a science or social studies topic that really interests you. Some topics studied in fifth grade include the solar system and its planets, the systems of the human body, Colonial America, the writing of the Constitution, and the Revolutioanry War.

Find a book of easy science experiments you can do at home. Write your results in a ntebook.

Visit a museum while on vacation.

Good science websites to preview what you will be studying are www.macmillanmh.com (Click onto Grade 5 Science) and www.edheads.com Your student should be familar with these sites as we used them at school.