SUMMER TIME - AND THE LEARNING IS EASY!

We count on parents to help their children maintain the learning gained during the school year.  For this reason, we hope you will participate in one of the many Summer Learning Activities & Programs available in our community or online.  Make a plan for 20-30 minutes of daily maintenance work.  The links below provide tools to support this critical intention.

Click on these links to find the materials indicated:

SUMMER LEARNING MATERIALS – Specific St. Anthony materials, (calendar, reading log, directions to keep your child/ren engaged in learning).

WEBSITES - Recommended online websites programs/learning games and classes.

SUMMER SKILLS LEARNING REVIEW BOOKS ORDER FORM - These are available in the curriculum areas of Language Arts and Math (If you order through the school before June 1st!).

SUMMER SCHOOLS – Local classes and referrals to tutoring programs.

CURRICULUM GUIDES – Links to St. Anthony Curriculum for each grade level.

NEW!! GRADE LEVEL INFORMATION so students (and family members) can anticipate what is coming and prepare for it.

Some teachers have also made summer activity recommendations for the students they taught during 2009-10.  Refer to the teacher webpage of the teacher in whose classroom your child was this year.

 

Many of these options are simple, independent, and individualized. In other options, students can gain significant growth in the summer because they may just focus on one subject (reading, writing, math) when attending a summer program, school, working with a tutor, or utilizing an online self-paced and motivating teaching program.  Still others simply work with the myriad of brain teasers, logic games and other cognitive challenges available online to keep the brain active, thinking and engaged. (Ahem… NOT the game boy, sorry!)

 

 The objective of Summer Learning is to schedule 20-30 minutes of reading, comprehension writing, and/or math practice five times a week.  Alternatively, students enrolling in a shorter summer school, might do a half-day for 4-5 weeks.   The curriculum guides are also linked and available on our website to increase your understanding of the learning expectations for the upcoming year.  We hope this will help your student learner in transitioning successfully to the next grade level. 

  

PRIZES?

Yes, we love learning for its own sake – but local businesses have donated prizes for us to give to all kids upon the completion of any summer learning and evidence of these shown to the school in September! 

 

Every student who brings us a set of completed worksheets, a reading log,  or a certificate of course completion – something that demonstrates some consistent maintenance activity over the summer – will receive a thank you!  They need only bring it to their teacher, Ms. Small or Mrs. Tribble to receive this recognition.