Summer Learning

Happy Summer!

On this page and at the below links you will find all the information you need to engage your child with their 2023 summer learning work. Summer Reading books will be distributed to students before the end of the school year, and each grade’s book is listed below. If you did not receive your summer reading book, please email Emily Rabinowitz-Buchanan.

Lower School families can visit the Lower School Summer Learning website for more information from your child’s 2022-2023 teachers about summer learning. Your child’s summer learning work will be listed as their “rising” grade (the grade they will enter in fall 2023). Please note that summer learning work for rising 6th graders is found on the Lower School Summer Learning website. Supply list and math review can also be accessed below.

Upper School Families, please see below for summer math work and upper school supply lists.

If you have any questions about lower school summer learning, please contact Emily Rabinowitz-Buchanan. If you have questions about upper school summer learning, please contact Brad Belin.

UPPER SCHOOL SUMMER MATH

Math review sheets should be completed this summer and turned in during the first week of school. This work is intended to be a review of skills students have learned during this school year and before. Summer math work is an essential tool in ensuring students retain skills learned throughout the school year.

Below you can find math review worksheets and information for students in rising 6th, 7th, and 8th grade that should be completed this summer. Ideally, students should complete about one review a week so that they are continually reviewing. If there is a topic that is challenging, please have your child email Maureen Twombly, so that she can support them.

Upper School Supply Lists 2023-2024.

Summer Reading 2023

Pre-K What Shall We Play Now by Taghreed A. Najjar

Grade K A House for Every Bird by Megan Maynor

Grade 1 I Wonder by Annaka Harris

Grade 2 The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi

Grade 3 The Year of the Three Sisters by Andrea Cheng

Grade 4 Odder by Katherine Applegate

Grade 5 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Grade 6 Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

Grade 7 Choose one:

  • Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

  • They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Grade 8 Required:

  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Choose:
A school/8th grade appropriate independent choice book to read, that you are excited to present to your peers during the first week of class. Be prepared to provide a summary and review/recommendation of the book, and explain why you chose it, what excited you about it, and did the book live up to your expectations?

For middle schoolers looking for additional summer reading, here is some information on how to Pick The Right Book.