Summer Reading

Calvin Coolidge

Second Grade

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Attached is a list of grade level appropriate books that your child is required to select two from to read over the summer. In addition, they will need to complete the attached book report assignment sheet for each selection. We also expect them to continue to build upon your math skills, as well as, over the summer. To help accomplish this we ask that they visit the math websites that are listed below. They will allow for some fun and exciting ways to build and strengthen their math computational skills through games and interactive activities.

Completed assignments will be turned into the homeroom teacher in September. They will be counted towards the 1st marking period reading grade.

Have your child complete a Book report for one fiction and one non-fiction book.

Return the book reports in September to your child’s classroom teacher.

Have a very happy, healthy and enjoyable summer!

Calvin Coolidge School Staff and Administration

Math Websites:

http://www.IXL.com

http://www.toonuniversity.com/free/math-games-1st-3rd.asp

http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/

http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/math-games.html

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

http://www.cyberkidzgames.com/

Suggested Book List – Second Grade

Molly My Golly – Dianne Ochiltree

Pierre the Penguin – Jean Marzollo

How I Became A Pirate – Melinda

Long

Space – Tedd Arnold

Boy, Were We Wrong About

Dinosaurs! – Kathleen V. Kudlinski

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type –

Doreen Cronin

Coming on Home Soon – Jacqueline Woodson

Frog & Toad –Arnold Lobel

Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World-Steve Jenkins

Owl Moon –Jane Yolen

The Stray Dog –Marc Simont

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale – Verna Aardema

Ronald Morgan Goes To Bat – Patricia Riley Giff

Henry & Mudge – Cynthia Rylant

Jamaica’s Find- Juanita Havill

Emperor Penguins–Robert Edwards

Mr. George Baker – Amy Hest

A Chair For Mother –Vera B. Williams

From Seed to Plant – Gail Gibbons

Bats: Creatures of the Night –Joyce Milton

Old Mikamba Had a Farm- Rachel Isadora

Bats Love the NIght –Nicola Davies

Elephant & Piggie: I Really Like Slop! - Mo Willems

Owl Diaries: Eva’s Treetop Festival –Rebecca Elliot

Zen Socks – Jon J Muth

Black Holes – Ker Than

Meteor Showers – J. A. Kelly

Down Comes the Rain- Rudyard

Kipling

Barnum's Bones – Tracey Fern

Animal Superstars! –Aline Alexander

Newman

Polar Bears – Mark Newman

Abe’s Honest Words -Doreen

Construction Zone –Cheryl Wills Hudson

How People Learned To Fly –Fran Hodgkins

Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci –Gene Barretta

Gandhi –Alice McGinty

Mummies –Elizabeth Carney

Nelson Mandela – Kadir Nelson

When Marian Sang – Pam Munoz Ryan

Blackout –John Rocco

Fishing Day –Andrea Davis Pinkney

Grace For President –Kelly DiPucchio

I See the Sun in Afganistan –D. King

The People Could Fly – Virginia Hamilton

When the Shadbush Blooms – Carla Messinger

Clara & the Bookworm – Nancy Smiler Levison

Could You? Would You? –Trudy White

Mom & Dad Are Palindromes –Mark Shulam

Avangeline Mudd & the Golden Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle –David Elliot

Once Upon a Time - Niki Daly

Get Ready For Second Grade, Amber Brown –Paula Danziger

Paint the Wind – Pam Munoz Ryan

My Book Report

Name __________________________________________________________________________

Name of Book _________________________________________________________________

Author of the Book ___________________________________________________________

Who are the main characters in the story? __________________________________

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Tell about the story

Beginning: ______________________________________________________________________

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Middle: _________________________________________________________________________

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End: _____________________________________________________________________________

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What was your favorite part of the story? _________________________________

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Did you like the book? Why or why not? ______________________________________

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NON-FICTION BOOK REPORT

Name ____________________________________________________________

Name of Book ___________________________________________________

Author __________________________________________________________

Three Facts I learned:

1. ____________________________________________________________

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2. ____________________________________________________________

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3. ____________________________________________________________

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2 New Vocabulary

Words

1. ____________

2. ____________

Use one new word in a

sentence

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