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Rising 6th Grade: Summer Reading 2015

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6th Grade Summer Reading List and Assignment  - 2015




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Dear HTS Community,

Welcome to the fifth year of the HTS Summer Learning Blog. We have gathered all our summer assignments in one place, but beyond that, I would like to highlight a variety of fun, often techie ways to help students prevent the "summer slide."

We will be updating the blog throughout the summer with new reading ideas, websites and Apps for your iPads, so be sure to follow us by Email, or keep checking back for updates. Please let me know if you have any comments, or would like to suggest a website, link or App to add. I can be reached on mbmorell@htsdc.org.

Enjoy lazy summer days filled with swimming, hiking, exploring, friends and fun - but be sure to spend some time enriching your brain as well! Keep in touch with your learning adventures over the summer,

MB Morell
Holy Trinity School
Georgetown

A Few Thoughts on The Summer Slide

In a 2011 New York Times article titled "This is your Brain on Summer" Jeff Smink of the National Summer Learning Association says: "The American ideal of lazy summers filled with fun has an unintended consequence: If students are not engaged in learning over the summer, they lose skills in math and reading. Summers off are one of the most important, yet least acknowledged, causes of underachievement in our schools.


Read further here: This is Your Brain on Summer


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