Suggested summer

Homework

Kensington Hall

Grade 6

During the summer you might want to …

…take your children to Detroit’s Cultural Center. Within a few blocks you have the Detroit

Institute of Arts, The Museum of African-American History, the Detroit Science Center, the

Detroit Historical Museum (two great exhibits currently on display: “1920s-Detroit’s Building

Boom” and “Detroit’s Classic Radio Voices”), the Detroit Children’s Museum, the Scarab Club

and the main branch of the Detroit Public Library. While in the neighborhood you can visit St.

Paul’s Cathedral (Episcopalian) and have a nice lunch at Union Street, or at the Majestic Café

which is attached to the Majestic Theatre (the site of Harry Houdini’s last performance.)

…take your children to Belle Isle and watch the freighters go by. On the island (where the Grand

Prix will be run) you can stop at the Dossin Maritime Museum (there is a great exhibit there

currently…), or the Belle Isle Conservatory. Stop at Pewabic Pottery while you are in the

neighborhood and drive through Indian Village.

…go to Detroit’s River Walk- a three-mile walkway along the Detroit River. You can see a map

of the world outside of the Renaissance Center’s Winter Garden; see the statues that

commemorate the Underground Railroad.

…travel to Mexicantown for a great meal.

…get up early on a Saturday morning and go to a farmer’s market at Detroit’s Eastern Market, or

in Royal Oak, or Pontiac.

…take advantage of the largest theatre district outside of New York---including the Fisher

Theatre, The Fox, The Gem, The Music Hall and others.

…do a tour of Detroit’s great architecture like the Fisher Building, The Guardian Building, the

Penobscot, and the Masonic Temple (the largest Masonic Temple in the world.)

…the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak is a great place to visit.

…head to Dearborn and tour the Arab-American Museum.

…visit Detroit’s Motown Museum.

…go to The Henry Ford at Greenfield Village, the Rouge Plant Tour, or the Holocaust Memorial

(for older students).

… a little farther afield there are science museums in Ann Arbor (The Ann Arbor Hands-On

Museum) and Toledo (COSI). Ann Arbor boasts the Arboretum and Toledo also has a fine art

museum.

… explore Frankenmuth.

…stay at home and play “Rice Bowl” on the computer. The program builds vocabulary while

players earn rice for developing countries.

Grade 6 Summer Reading

Each student should read a minimum of 25 minutes per evening this summer. Boys have

learned to play various sports and work diligently to improve their athletic skills. These skills

include shooting foul shots, throwing and hitting a baseball, catching and throwing a lacrosse

ball, volleying a tennis ball, hitting a golf ball, I could go on and on. Reading is an acquired skill,

and in order to master the skill, readers must practice on a daily basis. Even when the skill is

mastered, it must be practiced in order to maintain the mastery.

Reading interests vary by personality. I recommend that students choose what they read

because they generally know what they like. If your son enjoys reading Popular Mechanics or

Sports Illustrated, that’s great. When I was that age I was an avid reader and collector of S. I.

and Mad Magazine. If he is not “a reader,” we will work to change that. Let him read whatever

he chooses (within reason), even comic books. Comics use dialogue very well, they are very

visual, and they are always action packed. They are also quick reads. (It’s nice to finish what you

start). My favorite, to this day, is Spiderman.

Do something every day that you have never done before, and have a great time doing it.

A Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger

A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park

Artemis Fowl (series), Eoin Colfer

Bean, Kevin Brooks

Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis

Dave at Night, Gail Carson Levine

Far North, Will Hobbs

Honus & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure, Dan Gutman

House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer

Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

King Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory

Maximum Ride Series, James Patterson

Muhammad Ali, Walter Dean Myers

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Next Man Up, John Feinstein

Onion John, Joseph Krumgold

Phineas Gage, A gruesome but True Story; John Fleischman

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

The Anthony Horowitz Collection, Anthony Horowitz

The Gary Paulsen Collection, Gary Paulsen

The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien

The J.K. Rowling Collection, J.K. Rowling

The Jack London Collection, Jack London

The Jery Spinelli Collection, Jerry Spinelli

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

Grade 6 Summer Reading

The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, S.E. Hinton

The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss

The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, Hugh Lofting

Treasure Island; Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson

Vampire Plagues, Sebastian Brooke

Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo

All titles have been read and recommended by sixth grade boys. I would recommend that boys read

Gary Paulsen before reading Jack London. J.R.R. Tolkien can be a difficult read for some, but if a parent

read Tolkien at bed time… The classic literature listed here is what former students have found most

readable for them.

Incoming 6th Grade Math and Science Skills 6th Grade Math students should be able to:

o Add, subtract, multiply, divide, and compare: whole numbers fractions decimals

o You should be able to work with percents and convert from percents to decimals to fractions

o Find area and perimeter of 2-dimensionsal figures o Factors, Proper factors, multiples, GCF, and LCM o Work with coordinate graphs o Round whole numbers and decimals

I have made a packet of questions to help review these skills. Science Ideas for Summer: We will be studying life science in the coming school year. Here are some ideas to help prepare:

If you go anywhere there is water, get a water sample and bring it to school when the year begins. We will be looking at it under the microscope. Try to get some muck in the sample!

Go to a Zoo (especially the Detroit Zoo)

Go to the Detroit Science Center

Go to Cranbrook Science Center

Watch Animal Planet (parent approved shows only)

Keep a record of anything you do (in a note book) to share when you return.

Name __________________________

Coming to 6th

Grade Math Review

All of the following items should be a review of concepts you have covered in 5th

grade

or before. It is recommended that you do about ten problems each week to spread the

work out. The more you practice, the better you become, just like in sports. You must

show all work. A calculator is not allowed. If you are struggling to remember how to

do a question, feel free to email me at: harthur@ashmi.org

Solve. 1. 5,473 – 4,266 = 2. 562 + 988 =

3. 5,782 + 3,491 + 69 = 4. 98,234 – 998 =

5. 902 X 208 = 6. 22 8,030

7. 2.37 + 82.9 = 8. 99 – 0.99 =

9. 5.34 ÷ 0.4 = 10. 0.88 X 33 = Mixed Numbers <-> Improper Fractions

11. 3

21 12. 15

3

1

13. 3

15 14.

8

23

Put these fractions in lowest terms.

15. 10

5 16.

48

12

Solve.

17. 5

24

1 18. 6

5213

121

19. 5

38

5 20. 6

54

12

21. 3

2

5

4 22.

431

762

23. 2

1

8

3 24.

524

311

25. Find the GCF (Greatest Common Factor)

a. 15= b. 45=

12= 30= 26. Find the LCM (Least Common Multiple)

a. 8= b. 15=

10= 12= 27. Plot the following points and label: a. (0,5) b. (-3,9) c. (-5,-1) d. (7,-4) e. (10,8) f. (-7,-7)

28. Perimeter = Area = 29. Perimeter = Area = 30. Perimeter = Area= 31. What is the sum of the angles? < sum = <sum = <sum = (any triangle) (any quadrilateral) (any pentagon)

Number Fraction Decimal Percent

32. 5

2

33. 0.08

34. 2%

35. 0.05%

Answer only to go to hundredths place. 36. Diameter = Circumference = Area = 37. Radius = Circumference = Area = 38. Diameter = Radius = Circumference = 39. Diameter = Radius = Area = Order of Operations. 40. 15 + 23 + 10 x 3 = 41. 5 x 3 + 4 x 5 = 42. 5 + 6 + (7 + 2) x 3 = 43. 82 + 6 + 2 x 3 =

Greater Than/Less Than/ Equal Too

44. 8

5 □

5

3 45.

5

3□10

6

46. 0.54 □ 0.054 47. 0.55 □ 2

1

48. 0.1234 □ 1 49. 3

2 □ 0.6

50. 45 □ 9 x 5 51. 0.02 □ 2

1

52. Find four fractions between 2

1 and

3

2(Hint: find a much larger common

denominator) Factors (Example 12 = 1,2,3,4,6,12) 53. 6 = 54. 26 = Proper Factors (Example 12 = 1,2,3,4,6) 55. 10 = 56. 15 = Multiples (Go to around 100) (Example 12 = 12,24,36,48,60,72,84,96) 57. 8 = 58. 13 =

Percentages. Hint: You can think of these like decimal multiplication. You know percent mean part of 100, so multiply the whole number times the decimal that is equal to the percent (example 20% = 0.20) 59. 10% of 50 60. 20% of 80 61. 20% of 65 62. 30% of 30 63. 49% of 151 64. 13% of 49 65. 24% of 319 66, 34% of 175

67. Area = Perimeter = 68. Area = Perimeter =

Write the following in number form: 69. One hundred eight and five hundredths Write the following in word form 70. 108,108,008.0005 71. 9,385.639 Round to the underlined place value: 72. 0.8435 = 73. 9.872 = 74. 863.25 = 75. 9.99998 = 76. Use the circle to make a spinner with six sections. Make it equally likely for the spinner to land on each section. Label each section with the number if degrees it represents. (Remember that there are 360 in a circle.)

77. Herman is tossing a bean bag randomly onto this game mat:

A A B

C A

B B

C

. What is the probability of a bean bag landing on an area marked A?

. What is the probability of a bean bag landing on an area marked B?

. What is the probability of a bean bag landing on an area marked C? 78. A gumball machine contains orange, yellow, and purple gumballs. The probability of getting orange is ¾ and yellow is 1/6.

. What is the probability of getting a purple gumball?

. What is the fewest gumballs that could be in the machine?

. If there are 36 gumballs, how many are orange, yellow, and purple? Orange = _______ Yellow = _______ Purple = _______

Spanish Suggested Summer Work

-Eat at a Mexican, Spanish, Cuban, or other Spanish speaking country restaurant. Be adventurous and try a new dish. Also, use your Spanish to greet the waiter, say "por favor" and "gracias"; and try to order in Spanish. - Watch half an hour of Spanish movies and/or tv shows in Spanish every week. Remember all DVD's have the language option. Listen for the words you know. -Visit Mexican Town on Bagley St. in downtown Detroit for lunch and check out the shops that sell authentic souvenirs. -Practice the "Padre Nuestro" prayer and pledge. If you need help or just a re-fresher go to Sra. Pastrone's Wiki space to listen to these and other helpful items at: http://pastronewiki.wikispaces.com/