Summer Learning!

The summer is a great time to brush up on your skills and prepare for a successful sixth grade year!  With so many web and app resources around, it can be difficult finding quality sites. Below are some great resources teacher-approved for summer learning. Check them out! (Kids--As with any website, adult supervision is advised.)

Math skills:
Math Live-kid-friendly & interactive
Conceptua Math-tools to reinforce fraction concepts
Khan Academy-enrichment opportunity... prepare for algebra
XP Math-Games for many math concepts
3DTin-Create your own 3D models

Social Studies:
My Wonderful World-Geography skills
Mission US-Interactive games with historical content
Library of Congress Digital Collections-expansive digital museum
Colonial Williamsburg-virtual field trips

Literacy:
Wordia-Fun way to increase vocabulary
Brooklyn Public Library recommended reading lists
Book Trailers-Watch video trailers for books!
Google Lit Trips-Take a trip through books
What Should I read Next?-Type in a book and the site gives you recommendations of similar books.

For more summer fun, check out Camp Virtual, an online and app guide to summer learning compiled by Common Sense Media. Use their "learning ratings" and concise descriptions to find great resources for fun and learning.

Also, 5th graders contributed to a huge list of recommended books. Keep your reading skills sharp by reading as much as you can!  As you read many books this summer, you can log your reading on Scholastic for a chance to win PRIZES!

Heroes of Olympus series
Ida B.
The Sisters Grimm series
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series
Slob
The Kane Chronicles series
The Egypt Game
Rapunzel's Revenge
Calamity Jack
A Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Are you There God, It's Me Margaret
Red Blazer Girls series
My Side of the Mountain
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Mixed Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler
Space Station Seventh Grade
Fourth Grade Rats
Stargirl
Love, Stargirl
The Library Card
The Secret Series
Half Minute Horrors
Big Nate
Seekers series
Hatchet
Guardians of Ga'hoole
Heart of Samurai
Hoot
Flush
Chomp
War Horse
Flawed Dogs
Amelia Rules! series
Edward's Eyes
Wonderstruck
Half Upon a Time
Twice Upon a Time
The Magician's Elephant
The Messenger
School of Fear series
Dork Diaries series
Finding Blue
Warriors series
The Girl With the Silver Eyes
Beyonder
Babysitting Wars 
The Witch and Wizard Trilogy
Longer Letter Later
Snail Mail No More
Cold Cereal
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
His Dark Material
The Gregor the Overlander Series
A Wrinkle in Time
Smile
Regarding the Bees
The Last Dragon Chronicle Series
Tintin Series
Amulet Series
The Kitchen Princess
Worth
Yotsuba Series
Emily Windsnap Series
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Kiki Strike Series
The Girl Who Could Fly
Copper