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