Daily Summer Activities, Moving from First to Second Grade

Keep learning alive during the summer. If children don't use their skills regularly, they begin to forget them. Research has shown that short sessions of daily practice help to maintain, and even increase, what has been learned. Provides ten weeks of appropriate, teacher-developed practice activities in major subject areas to help your child make a successful transition from one grade to the next. Full color with engaging illustrations and graphics sure to hold a child's interest. Comprised of ten weekly sections that provide skill practice in several subject areas. There are two pages of short, focused practice for each day of the week. The subject areas vary somewhat depending on the grade levels addressed, but include, reading, mathematics, spelling and other language skills, handwriting, creative writing, and geography. Each weekly section begins with a record form where the child tracks work completed, logs the number of minutes of recreational reading, and records interesting events of the week. Other features of each book include: 16 pages of reading or mathematics practice cards printed on cardstock; ideas for using practice cards are provided, certificate of completion, answer key, parent suggestions, and summer reading list.