Summer Learning = Summer Fun!

Build strong muscles & minds with rich learning activities! 

Did you know?
Research tells us that over the summer months our students can lose up to 60% of the math and reading skills that they learned during the year. Many report that summer is the most difficult time to ensure that their children have something productive to do. 

What can you do?
Visit the site created for learners in grades K-5


https://sites.google.com/a/freeholdtwp.k12.nj.us/gassner/summer

Sample some of the learning experiences which are sure to enrich the summer days for you and your students!

Informational Text

Along with all of the other challenges we face in the classroom each day, we have the constant reminder of our state's adoption of the "Common Core" and the promise of standardized tests which are expected to reflect achievement of these standards each spring. Over the past three years, curriculum has been updated and modified accordingly and efforts have been made to assist in "unpacking" the standards to ensure educators understand specifically what the new standards mean, and what a student must know, understand and be able to do. This year, in the area of ELA, our teacher toolbox expanded to include more resources for informational text, defined by the CCSS as a broad category of nonfiction resources, including: biographies; autobiographies; books about history, social studies, science, and the arts; technical texts (including how-to books and procedural books); and literary nonfiction.