• Read 20+ minutes a day.
• While reading or after reading, write/draw:
  • An important part of the text.
  • A connection that you made to the text.
  • A question about the text.
  • The problem and resolution of the story (literary text only - fiction, poetry, drama).
  • The central idea and details to support it (informational texts only - nonfiction, persuasive).
  • A conclusion that can be drawn from the text.
  • Something that could be added to the text to extend its message.

• Sorting and Counting - Have your child take inventory of something in your house. (silverware, Legos, books, socks, art supplies, tools, stickers, etc.)
  • Have students make an inventory sheet to show how many of each item
  • Ask: How can you organize your counting?
  • Ask: Is there a way to group the items to count more easily?
• Environmental Shape or Pattern Hunt - Give students a list of two and three-dimensional figures and geometric terms (edge, vertices, face, side, cone, cylinder, sphere, rectangular prism, triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon) for students to go on a scavenger hunt in and around their home to find. 
• Real World Problems - Give your child an addition or subtraction number sentence ("43 + 76" or "321 - 89") and have students find something in or around their home or in a book to create a word problem to match the equation. Then have your child solve the problem. 
• Shopping and Money - Grab a handful of coins and have students identify the value of each coin and the total value of the handful. After students determine the value of the collection, have your child determine how much more money would be needed to make a dollar. Select an amount of change and have your child think of all the different coin combinations that would equal that amount of money.

• Create a question about an organism, object, or event that can be observed in the natural world.  It may sound something like:
  • Does the color of a crayon affect its melting rate? 
  • Do oranges float or sink in water?
• Plan and conduct a simple investigation to answer your question.
• Be sure to make observations and collect data. 
• Record and organize your data using pictures, numbers, and/or words. 
• Write about what you learned and new questions that you have.
• Research or test your new questions.

• Make daily calendars and timelines
• Look through family albums, photos, and/or artifacts and discuss what students see and know
• Discuss community helpers (firefighters, police officers, hospital staff)
• Share age-appropriate articles and newspapers and discuss what you notice
• Practice using globes and maps (physical or online)

Library Digital Resources

• Access Library Digital Resources folder via tile in Webdesk.
• Find read alouds, encyclopedias, Nat Geo kids, and other research resources.
• Curated list of Summer Resources: K-5 Summer Library Digital Resources

Seesaw

• Access Seesaw Official via tile in Webdesk.

Skills:

• An interactive learning platform across all content areas, including digital citizenship and computer science.
• Students create, reflect, share, and collaborate.
• The platform is also a communication tool between school and home, where connected families can view student work and send messages to the teacher.
• Any text written in Seesaw can easily be translated into 100+ languages by both teachers and families.

HMH Ed Online

• Access PISD HMH ED via tile in Webdesk.
• Access text in:
  • Mybook
  • Student choice library
  • Current events
• Access foundational literacy skills activities in 
  • iRead

Review Skills:

• Listen to and/or read and understand texts in a variety of genres, including literary (fiction), informational (non-fiction), poetry, drama, and persuasive texts.
• Work in iRead.

Amplify

• Access Amplify via tile in Webdesk.
• Students work through learning independently, based on their early literacy assessment data.
• 

Review Skills:

• Phonics/Making words (spelling and reading)
• Understanding text (comprehension)
• Reading fluency
• Vocabulary

Dreambox

• Access Dreambox via tile in Webdesk. 
• Suggestion: complete 5 lessons a week.

Review Skills:

• Compare and order whole numbers up to 1,200.
• Solve one-step and multi-step addition and subtraction word problems within 1,000.
• Generate and solve addition and subtraction problem situations given a number-sentence within 1,000.
• Classify and sort three-dimensional figures; spheres, cones, cylinders, rectangular prisms based on the number of sides, vertices, or edges.
• Classify and sort two-dimensional shapes with 12 or fewer sides based on the number of sides and/or vertices.
• Determine the value of a collection of coins up to one dollar.

Discovery Education

• Access PISD Discover Education via tile in Webdesk. 
• Students can listen to texts/read along with texts/watch videos in their Student Techbook.

Review Skills:

• Classify matter by physical properties, including relative temperature, texture, flexibility, and whether a material is a solid or liquid.
• Investigate the effects on objects by increasing or decreasing amounts of light and heat.
• Measure, record, and graph weather information.

Savvas Realize

• Access PISD Savvas via tile in Webdesk.
• Access resource:
  1. Click link under Classes > Social Studies dropdown or
  2.  Go to “Learning systems” and click on Pearson Realize. Select MyWorld Social Studies from options on the right under "My Programs". 
• Students can access the eText and read, read along with audio, and watch videos.
• If students have assigned content, please work through those assignments first.

Review Skills:

• Identify characteristics of good citizenship and identify figures who exhibit good citizenship.
• Describe the order of events and use vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present, and future.
• Interpret information on maps and the globe, including landforms and bodies of water.
• Identify the functions of governments and governmental services.
• Identify ways to actively practice good citizenship.