Soar Into Summer

Soar Into Summer Literacy and Math Challenge

To keep your literacy and math skills sharp over the summer, we’re offering a Soar Into Summer Literacy and Math Challenge this year. To participate you will select activities from the literacy and math task options below to complete. Fill in each literacy (book icon) and math (4 operations icon) block on the provided Soar Into Summer Gameboard after you’ve completed the task. Feel free to use any of these tasks more than once. There will be a Sky-High Scholars Social in August for anyone who rises to the challenge and turns in a completed gameboard by Thursday, August 6th. 

Literacy Tasks:

• Read outside for 20 minutes.
• Visit the library and write a recommendation for one book you checked out. 
• Write your summer bucket list. 
• Listen to an audio book or read aloud. 
• Write a book recommendation or tell someone about what you read. 
• Write a story or a comic. 
• Read in a fun place and write about your favorite part.
• Read for 20 minutes a day for one week and keep a reading log. 
• Read a nonfiction book and write 3 facts you learned. 
• Read to someone else and draw or write about the story afterward. 
• Have a pen pal moment - write a post card or letter to a friend, relative, or even your teacher for next year. 
• Be a movie critic! Watch a movie based on a book. Write or tell someone two things that were different in the movie vs. the book. 

Math Tasks: 

• Complete a Zearn lesson. Be sure to do at least one Zearn lesson a week and fill in at least 9 math blocks with Zearn lessons. 
• Find math in real life by counting money while shopping, telling time, or measuring while cooking. 
• Practice math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division) for 10 minutes. 
• Create a math story problem based on something you did in your day, and solve it.
• Be a shape investigator. Go on a “geometry walk” around the neighborhood or your house. Find and draw 5 different shapes you see.  
• Check the high temperature for three days in a row. Which day was the hottest? What is the difference between the highest and lowest numbers?
• Look at a grocery story ad or at a menu. If you had $20, what are three things you could buy? Do you have enough left over for a treat? 
• Be a data collector - ask 10 people about their favorite summer treat/song/activity and create a bar graph or tally chart to show your results.