HOW TO KEEP YOUR GEARS TURNING DURING THE SUMMER!

DID YOU KNOW?Students who don’t engage in educational activities over the summer lose between one and three months of learning every year on an average.

DID YOU KNOW?In reading, the loss is cumulative; by the end of sixth grade, students who lose their reading skills over the summer will be as much as two full years behind their classmates.

MILWEE’S SUMMER READING• Students will choose one book from

the Sunshine State Young Readers’ List and read it over the summer.

• Standards students will choose one of the two story map options and complete it over the summer.

• Advanced/Pre-IB/Gifted will complete the “A Booksellers Day”.

Grade

Book Title Author Lexile

6 Jack Strong Takes a Stand

Greenwald, Tom 640L

6 Project Jackalope Ecton, Emily 650L

6 The Night Gardener Auxier, Jonathan 690L

6 The Secret of Rover Wildavsky, Rachel

690L

6 Twerp Goldblatt, Mark 730L

MILWEE’S SUMMER READINGCHOOSE ONE:

Grade

Book Title Author Lexile

7 The Eighth Day Salerni, Dianne 730L

7 Eye of the Storm Messner, Kate 740L

7 Seeing Red Erskne, Kathryn 750L

7 Counting by 7’s Sloan, Holly 770L

7 Skink: No Surrender Hiaasen, Carl 770L

MILWEE’S SUMMER READINGCHOOSE ONE:

MILWEE’S SUMMER READINGCHOOSE ONE:

Grade

Book Title Author Lexile

8 Stung Wiggins, Bethany 760L

8 Jungle of Bones Mikaelsen, Ben 770L

8 The Testing Charbonneau, Joelle 830L

8 This Journal Belongs to Ratchet

Cavanaugh, Nancy J. 830L

8 Tesla’s Attic Shusterman, Neal 870L

TEACHER EXPECTATIONS• Assignments due the first week of

school

• Cooperative Learning groups

• Team Building

• Class Building

ADDITIONAL READING IDEAS• Match your child’s interests with non-

fiction books.• Talk to your child about the reading.• Let your child choose their reading

material.• Link books to summer activities.• Take books wherever you go.• Read aloud to your child.• Pair books with movies. • Use the library.

• Writing Skills? Create a blog/ journal

• Math Arcade, Coolmath4kids

• Grammar? Try Mad Libs

• Family Game Nights

• A-Word-of-the-Day

• Free typing games

• Travel ideas

ADDITIONAL LEARNING IDEAS

BE “LITERACY FIT”• Strength

• Endurance

• Flexibility

MILWEEBOOKCLUB.WEEBLY.COM

As our Milwee students wait in anticipation for that final bell to ring, I think’s it’s very important to ask: what will they be upto this summer? And is the time away from learning worth the price that many of them will pay tomorrow.

21ST CENTURY TUTORIALSummer Enrollment: June 1 – July 31

(Closed June 29 – July 3)

Monday – Thursday, closed Friday

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

(Students must attend the full day)

Project-based Learning

Personal Enrichment

Field trips

QUESTIONS/CONCERNSSee Mrs. Geary after Bingo