Summer break will soon be upon us, and summer is the theme in many classrooms across the country. The VizZle library has lots of great lessons to choose from about summer that you can use just as they are, or find in VizZle and edit to suit your needs. Run a keyword search for “summer” or look up some of these VizZle Vets’ favorites (as always, the list is arranged by level, with the youngest/least difficult first):

• Animals at the Beach (Book), VizZle ID Number: 13980
  Images of things commonly seen on the beach with text and recorded audio sung to the tune “The wheels on the Bus”, with popup “wh” question quizzes, 7 pages with custom celebration
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• How Many (Beach)? (Matching), VizZle ID Number: 14205
  Image set of beach related items TO numeral (1 to 10), field of 3 choices, 10 pairs
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• Summer (Sorting), VizZle ID Number: 144612
  Sort summer things into foods OR activities and clothes OR Fourth of July, text w/ audio instructions, image and text w/ audio categories and sort tiles, 8 tiles per sort, 2 sorts
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• Summer (Book), VizZle ID Number: 36274
  Images and text about summer, with embedded comprehension quizzes, 10 pages
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• Summer Fun (Book), VizZle ID Number: 4145
  Typical summer activities w/pop-up quizzes asking “wh” questions about the activity, 9 pages
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2012–An Olympic Summer (YAY!)

Whether you are planning a unit on the Olympics before school lets out, or you are looking for fun lessons to send home over the summer, these Olympics lessons are an awesome way to get excited for the big event. (For more great Olympic-themed lessons, run a keyword search in Share for “Olympics”) (and yes… I am an absolute and total Olympic fan, so I’m an easy mark… but I rate some of the videos in these books a definite 2 hanky (happy tears), with an added side of goose bumps):

• What Are the Olympics? (’12) (Book), VizZle ID Number: 153067
  Images and text w/audio about the history of the ancient and the modern Olympics, with popups and videos, 15 pages (updated for Summer 2012)
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• Traditions of the Olympic Games (Book), VizZle ID Number: 10276
  Images, text w/audio and video clips about the traditions and symbols of the modern Olympics, 15 pages,with a custom celebration
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• Olympic Happy and Sad (Book), VizZle ID Number: 10261
  Images and text labels of Olympic athletes displaying the emotions happy and sad, with a Thomas the Tank Engine short video about happy and sad on the last page, 14 pages
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• Olympic Happy or Sad? (Matching), VizZle ID Number: 10270
  Images with text w/audio question “Happy or Sad?” TO image w/text, field of 2 choices, 15 pairs, with custom celebration
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Get Your VizZle Players Ready for Summer

And speaking of sending lessons home for the summer… Have you set up your VizZle Players for sending home lessons? The VizZle Player is the ideal way to send home lessons that your kids can use for skill retention over the long summer break. The kiddos can play lessons at home, and you (or next year’s team) can see the play data from the summer.

For all you need to know to get your VizZle Players ready for summer, check out the articles here. And if you’d like a template for a letter you can personalize and send home giving parents all the info they need, click here to download one.