Student Summer Study?

What are your recommending for your students' summer study? How are you organizing the information for easy access. The world of learning has changed dramatically now that technology offers unlimited learning potential. There's many wonderful ways to learn offline too. Hence, for summer study, I recommend that my students do the following:

• Play a lot.
• Enjoy considerable free time to imagine, create, explore, and investigate.
• Spend time with family and friends.
• Travel to locations near and far including museums, zoos, parks, beaches, mountains, cities and more. Explore.
• Read regularly.
• Write often.
• Practice math facts and computation too so you don't lose your fluency over the summer.
• Explore wonderful STEAM sites and activities (science, tech, engineering, arts, and math).

How will you encourage summer study?

I decided to give my students a summer study packet including a page with individual passwords for selected sites, and a more general page of links:

Summer Online Study Menu

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  Practice Math Regularly with SumDog, Xtra Math, EDM Games, and more.
• Practice Keyboarding (see links below)
• Read regularly. Visit the Scholastic Summer Reading site for ideas.
• Explore Science with Tynker, Scratch, and other sites (see back).
• Write letters, emails, stories, poems. If you share with me, I’ll post your work on our class blog: http://teamfifteenhh.blogspot.com/
  
  

(Name)  Summer Study Passwords

Program	User Name	Password	Log-In Notes
http://www.tynker.com/login
Xtra Math https://www.xtramath.org/home/student_sign_in#
Sum Dog http://www.sumdog.com/
Scholastic Summer Challenge http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/src-2013
Everyday Math http://em-ccss.everydaymathonline.com/g_login.html

Summer Study:

Topic:	Links and Recommendations
Reading Daily Wayland Library Reading Program Scholastic Summer Reading Happy Hollow Digital Books Team 15 Book Chart	Visit the library weekly, read books, short and long, from many genres. Read the newspaper regularly. Read magazines. Read the 2012-2013 Team 15 Blog: Class website: Lexia Practice SumDog English, SumDog Writing Great link for reading fluency: Summer Reads Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge (note that students have their own passwords for this)
Writing	Try writing a story on Storybird (4th,5th) Update your Google ePortfolio (5th graders) Make a Google Presentation of your summer adventures. (5th grade) Write stories on Google docs. (5th grade) Keep a handwritten journal. (4th grade) Write emails to Ms. Devlin about your summer adventures. (4th grade) Write a story and send it to Ms. Devlin so she can publish it on the class blog:

Keyboarding	All the Right Type other programs
Math Facts	SumDog Xtra Math Practice Facts using Xtra Math, Factor Game, flash cards and Other Games: link   Manga High EDM Math Games (sign up and try it out) https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard
Science/Tech Exploration	https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nKIu9yen5nc Sketch-Up ~ 3D Building and Design Energy 3D ~ 3D Building Environmentally Green Houses (These print in pieces so students can assemble them into 3D houses ~ The closest thing to a 3D printer ~ Click on the link below to learn more) http://energy.concord.org/energy3d/ Pixel Press ~ Draw Your Own Video Game (Click on the link below to learn more ~ The site just recently launched). http://www.pixelpressgame.com/ Scratch ~ Programming and Creating Advanced Games: http://scratch.mit.edu/, Scratch class account Minecraft ~ Building and Designing an endangered species interactive tour, including biomes and facts from presentations.
Art	https://sites.google.com/a/wayland.k12.ma.us/happy-hollow-art-program/ Look at the many wonderful projects on this site and try creating your own.

I'll also offer families a computation review packet and a link to our class math site which has practice videos, worksheets, problem solving, and links. 

The world of learning is more accessible and diversified than ever before. Families and teachers have multiple paths available as they encourage students to follow their interests and passions as well as strengthen essential skills.

What learning paths will you follow this summer as a student, teacher, parent, or coach?  What tools will you explore and encourage?  Are there any must-have sites or links that I've missed on the list above, if so, please let me know. In the meantime, I hope that this study guide helps you and your students too.