Daily Summer Activities Moving from 1st to 2nd Gr - by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (Paperback)

About the Book

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Book Synopsis

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.

Daily Summer Activities books have received the Parents' Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids and The National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) for excellence!

Daily Summer Activities workbooks also include delightful artwork and reward stickers.

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