The Best Primary School Summer Reading List 小学夏季最佳阅读书单

School’s out for the summer! Pull your kids off their computers, iPads, and Nintendo Switches for some summer reading with this selection of excellent stories and short novels. We’ve compiled the top book picks from teachers across the YCIS Beijing Primary School to ensure children from every year level have something inspirational to read this summer!

学校放暑假了！让孩子离开他们的电脑，iPad, 任天堂手表，一起来阅读优秀的故事和短篇小说吧。我们向小学老师咨询，并挑选了最佳的书籍推荐给您，确保每个年龄段的孩子在暑假都能读到富有启迪的书本！

Ages 5 to 7

5-7岁

The Most Magnificent Thing – Ashley Spires

最华丽的事情 – Ashley Spires

Year 1 team leader Mr. Poole recommends this book for the youngest primary school students. In addition to sharing the story of a girl and her best friend who set out to create the most magnificent thing, young learners are taught a variety of lessons, from how to persevere in the face of adversity, to how to deal with frustration, to the idea of delayed gratification, and much more.

一年级组长Poole先生为小龄段的小学生推荐了这本书。阅读后，孩子们除了知道一个女孩和她好朋友创造的最华丽的事情之外，小读者会学习到如何在逆境中坚持，如何面对沮丧以及迟到的感谢，等等。

Today I Will Fly – Mo Willems

今天我要飞 – Mo Willems 

A delightful tale about a pig who wants to learn to fly, Year 2 team leader Ms. Banerjee recommends this book as both a comical and educational read for young learners thanks to its comical plot and plenty of new vocabulary, especially sound and sight words.

一个关于一只猪想要学习飞翔的有趣故事。二年级组长Banerjee老师推荐这本书，因为这本书既幽默，又有教育意义（内含众多的新词汇，特别是常用词）。

Looking for even more ways to use this book to enhance your children’s learning? Ms. Banerjee has all kinds of suggestions, such as:

想通过更多其他的方式阅读这本书来提高孩子的学习？Banerjee老师有如下建议：

- Write a book about Piggie and Elephant on a new adventure (trying something new).  

- 尝试写一本关于猪和大象去探险的书

- Reenact the story, video tape your presentation, and show it off to friends and family. 

- 角色扮演，录制你个人的表演，并向同伴和家人分享

- Have conversations with your child about limitations they may have, e.g. not being able to go in the deep end of the pool. It’s a great opportunity to review the idiom: “When pigs fly!”  

- 和孩子讨论他们所遇到的限制，例如不能去到游泳池的底部。这也是一个复习歇后语“当猪能飞”的好机会。

- Make a list of things that are so crazy they’ll never happen.  Discuss possible consequences if child were to exert themselves beyond their limitation.

- 列出一些他们永远都不会发生的事情。如果孩子能发挥想象，可以讨论可能的后果。

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