Summer Math Calendar – 5 to 10 minutes a day of learning fun!
Directions:
Games to Play (you will need a deck of cards)
July 5th, 2015
Today I collect 25 cents. It was easy to count 25 pennies. I know that
5 pennies is the same as 1 nickel so every time I counted five pennies I
changed a nickel, so I needed 5 nickels. 5+5+5+5+5 = 25 cents
Tools you may need:
Notebook
Chalk
Coins
Crayons
Pencil
Dice
Regular deck of playing cards
Cool math books to read:
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Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday, by Judith Viorst
Math for All Seasons by Greg Tang
100 Days of School by Trudy Harris
The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid
The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
Fun websites to explore:
www.funbrain.com
www.aplusmath.com
www.pbskids.org
www.sumdog.com
www.illumination.nctm.org - click on ACTIVITIES, K-2, SEARCH
Fun Apps to explore:
Your Dreambox.com account is active through the summer! Be sure to log in and
play for a few minutes daily. If you need log in information, please email
[email protected] or [email protected] .
Do your best to complete as many of these summer activities as you can! You may
want to record your work in a math journal every day.
Tips for journal entries:
 Have the date of the entry
 Have a clear and complete answer
 Be neat and organized
Example of a journal entry:
Entering
Second Grade
Compare
Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Remember an Ace is the same as 1.
Pass out all cards in the deck among all of the players. Each player flips over one
card at the same time. The player with the higher number keeps both cards. If the
two cards are the same, turn over another card. The play with the higher card
keeps all four.
Double Compare
Same as above, but turn over two cards each time and find the sum. The one with
the larger sum takes the cards.
Make 10, Go Fish
Played like original Go Fish, except instead of fishing for pairs you’re looking for
combinations of ten. Before playing: Take out 10’s, J’s, Q’s, and K’s and set aside.
Object:
The object of the game is to get as many pairs of cards as you can that total 10. The
winner of the game is the player with the most pairs of cards that equal 10.
How to Play:
Each player is dealt five cards. The remaining cards are placed face down in a pile in
the center of the table or play area. If you have any pairs that total 10 in your first
hand, put them down in front of you and replace those cards with cards from the
deck. Take turns. On a turn, ask one of the other players for a card that will go with
a card in your hand to make 10. If you get a card that makes 10, put the pair of
cards down. Since you made a match, you get to go again. If you do not get a card
that makes 10 because the other player did not have the card you asked for, you
must “Go Fish” for a card in the pile. If the card you take from the deck makes 10
with a card in your hand, put the pair down and take another turn. The game is
over when one person has no cards left. ***Once students learn their combinations
of ten, add the 10’s, J’s, Q’s and K’s back to the deck. Now play Go Fish Make 20!
Close to 20
Remove the face cards from a deck of cards. Deal 3 cards to each player. Which
two cards brings you closest to 10? Which player is closest to 10?
Other games to play: Checkers, Memory, Chutes and Ladders, Hi, Ho Cherry-O,
Blink, jigsaw puzzles, Parcheesi, Fish, Crazy 8, Connect 4, Legos, K’Nex
*Motion Math
*PopMath Lite
*UnderSea Math
*Pizza 1
*Math balloons
* MathBingo
*Zoom
*Number Lines
*LoveToCount
*Bills&Coins *Number Rack
*Find Sums
*Virtual Manipulatives!
Warsaw Community Schools
Summer Math Calendar
Entering Second Grade
Sunday
Monday
JUNE 2016
Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
Saturday
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2
3
4
Use chalk outside to put
these numbers in order from
smallest to largest: 983, 72,
390, 184. Explain how you
did this.
Play Dreambox.com
Thursday
Circle all even numbers: 36,
83, 47, 15, 109, 235, 998, 134,
700, 351. Can you name four
more even numbers?
Take 7 pennies, put some in
each hand. Show one hand
to an adult and have them
guess how many are still
hiding. Switch!
Play Make 10 Go Fish (see
directions). Add up all the
pairs, who has more? How
many more pairs?
5
Estimate the number of
measuring cups it will take
to fill a pitcher. Test it out!
6
Estimate how many times
you can walk from your
kitchen to your room in one
minute. How close was your
estimate?
7
Play Close to 20. How does
this help you practice your
addition?
8
Roll two dice and practice
addition by adding the two
numbers.
9
Jump rope and count by
tens to 100. Try counting
backwards.
10
Estimate the length of your
pillow in inches. Measure it.
How long is it? How long in
centermeters?
11
How many ways can you
make 25 cents using pennies,
nickels, dimes and quarters?
Record your findings.
12
Play a strategy game like
Mancala or Connect Four.
Would you use the same
strategy next time you play?
13
Today’s number is 13. Add
two numbers to make 13.
Subtract two numbers to
make 13. Now try with three
numbers.
14
Stand in the same spot in
the morning, afternoon
and evening. What did you
notice about your shadow?
draw pictures.
15
Tell the time that you go
to bed to the closest half
hour. Draw a picture of the
clock’s hands to show your
bedtime.
16
Record the time. Go read a
book(s) for 15 minutes. Now
what time is it? How many
pages did you finish?
17
Draw eight squares with
chalk. Hop on them and
count by twos. Try again
and count by fives and then
tens.
18
Find four things in your
house that are longer than 6
inches and shorter than one
foot.
19
Estimate how many times
you can hop on your left
foot in one minute. Hop!
How close was your
estimate?
20
Family Fun! Go on a
scavenger hunt around your
home. Look for triangles,
squares, rectangles and
trapazoids.
21
Blow some bubbles outside.
How many times did you
blow more than five bubbles
at once?
22
Make a 3D shape using
mini-marshmallows and tootpicks. How many corners
does your shape have?
23
Blow a marble, a bottle cap
and a pencil across a table.
Measure how far they go.
Which goes the farthest? By
how much?
24
Use cereal to make
patterns. Try ABC, ABB,
ABCD patterns. Make up
your own pattern.
25
Roll two dice and practice
subtraction by subtracting
the two numbers.
26
Estimate how long it will
take you to read two
picture books. Read them
to someone and find out
how close your guess is.
27
Pick a place in your yard.
Draw a bug’s view of what
you see.
28
Can you bounce a ball longer with your right hand or
your left hand? How many
bounces in a row can you
get on each hand?
29
Start at 27 and count by
tens. How high can you
count?
30
50 is the answer. What
could the question possibly
be? Challenge yourself to
think of more questions.