Even during the carefree months of summer, children can be preparing for the next grade with Daily Summer Activities. It s packed with engaging activities that will build learners confidence for the next grade level by practicing essential skills. Activities offer practice of essential skills across subject areas, including reading, math, writing, spelling, and geography.
With just one or two activities per day over a 10-week period, Daily Summer Activities helps to keep skills sharp without getting in the way of vacation time. The revised Daily Summer Activities reflects grade-level expectations and includes open-ended questions to develop your child s critical thinking skills. Fun reward stickers are also included with each book.
10 weeks of instruction cover the following skills:
Language Arts practice:
a fiction and a nonfiction story with comprehension questions each week
sentences to correct for capitalization punctuation, and grammar
8 to 10 spelling words to learn each week
manuscript handwriting practice
creative writing activities
Mathematics practice:
addition and subtraction facts
word problems
two and three-digit addition and subtraction with and without borrowing and carrying
multiplication facts to 25
practice cards for addition and subtraction facts from 10 to 18
Language skills such as:
alphabetical order
contractions
nouns and verbs
synonyms and antonyms
vowel sounds
parts of sentences
Beginning geography:
map symbols
reading simple maps