Summer Homework to Prevent Brain Drain– A New Day

After a good eight hours of sleep, I awoke refreshed and ready to tackle today’s summer homework. Today I incorporated some fun by using sidewalk chalk. My daughter loves to draw so she drew our family and labeled everyone. Thus, she practiced writing her name as well as other names. She currently uses all upper case letters; so I am teaching her to use both upper and lower case letters when writing her name. My son is not so easily entertained by chalk but he likes to play hangman.

Our school sent home a list of wall words for grade one and two. Today I reviewed all the wall words for grade one with my son and then played two games of hangman using only those words. While all of us would prefer to be at the pool, we spent approximately 20 minutes playing together to combat the summer brain drain!

Another powerful tool to fight summer brain drain is to play Er-u-di-tion as it incorporates ninety-eight percent of grade one wall words provided by our school!

Wall Words for Grade One

the	of	a	to	is
you	was	on	are	they
I	have	from	one	word
what	all	were	when	your
said	there	do	their	other
about	many	some	would	look
two	more	could	people	my
water	been	who	find	long
come	only	work	know	year
give	most	very	our	good
great	where	through	right	too
any	want	also	around	put
does	another	large	even	because
here	move	kind	again	change
off	air	away	mother	answer
learn	should	world	high	every
near	school	father	earth	eye
light	thought	head	saw	don’t
along	might	something	always	both
often	night	walk	four	carry