One activity that will help prepare you for 5th grade is to read, read, read. Read when you're waiting on your siblings or parents, read when it's a rainy day, read on a blanket in the shade, read on the beach. If you go on vacation this summer, read in the car or read on the plane. Listen to audiobooks (books on CD or MP3) while you're on a long drive. What should you read, you ask? Anything! Read comic books, read magazine articles, read chapter books, read picture books to younger brothers or sisters, read trading cards. Just read. Reading will help keep your brain active so you don't loose all that hard-earned infomation that you learned in 4th grade. It will also help make you a better reader, writer, and speller.
Recommended Titles:
Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
Deep, Dark, and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
Runaway Twin by Peg Kehret
Stolen Children by Peg Kehret
The Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
The Kane Chronicles (Red Pyramid Series) by Rick Riordan
The Heros of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn
The Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Boys are Dogs by Leslie Margolis
Girls Acting Catty by Leslie Margolis
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
Holes by Louis Sachar
Wolves of the Beyond Series by Kathryn Lasky
Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
Poppy by Avi
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Warriors Series by Erin Hunter
Hunter Series by Erin Hunter
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott