Summer is here!
Below are some activities that you can do to keep your academic skills high and to get you ready for the next grade level:
- From the Riverview School District Teaching and Learning Department – https://www.tl.rsd407.org/
- From the King County Library System – https://kcls.org/browse_program/summer-reading/
- Summer 2018 Reading Challenge Bingo from our 6th grade teachers and the Tolt LRC – Summer-Reading-Challenge-2018-1oilzbq-1b9pde1-1uhpehh
Dear Incoming 6th Graders,
If you attended the Transition Event on June 5th, you learned that WE READ at Tolt. One of our goals for you as a sixth grade reader is to increase your stamina for independent reading. As you enjoy your Summer Break, it’s important to continue to snatch time to read to avoid the “SUMMER SLIDE.” It’s time to enjoy the TMS SUMMER 2018 READING CHALLENGE. Your assignment is to find a time each day this summer where you can fit in a minimum of 20 minutes of reading, whether it’s at night before bed, in your favorite chair, outside in the yard, or at the park.
I am so excited to hear about the books that you select to read over the summer when you come to school in September! Please bring your completed TMS SUMMER 2018 READING CHALLENGE Bingo charts to me at the beginning of the 2018 – 2019 school year, and we can share in class what you have gained! If you lost the chart passed out at the 5th Grade Transition event, you can download a copy HERE – Summer-Reading-Challenge-2018-1oilzbq-1b9pde1-1uhpehh.
Happy Adventures!
Mrs. Switaj
In the Newberry Award Winning Novel, Old yeller, by Fred Gibson, is a story about a young lad named Travis and his confusing relationship with an old yeller stray dog that the youngest Little Arliss had stumbled upon. As all this happened there were minor events that got Travis to gain love for the new yeller dog and some that made him even more mad at the dog then when Little Arliss asked momma if they could keep him. When Travis was going to get the meat out of where they stored it he had found a fat old yeller dog sitting right next to a rib cage that used to have meat on it. But Travis’s love for old yeller changed when Little Arliss was playing by the stream one day when he got caught holding onto a momma bears cub. Even though nobody could see the grow up bear old yeller could sure smell her, he waited for her to come and fought her off until the could give the cub back. This was a phenomenal book and I encourage you to find out what happens to Old Yeller at the end of the novel.