Daily Summer Activities

This series of activity books will be of interest to parents whose children need a certain structure in order to stay on task, and for whom a long summer break might result in losing either the discipline or the skills gained in the previous academic year. Whether you are a homeschooler looking for a lighter academic activity, an afterschooler wanting to maintain or improve upon a student’s success at school, or the parent of a special needs child, these books from Evan-Moor are worth looking into.

Each book is intended to help transition a child from the previous grade and into the next one. Some students will be advanced to the next grade even though they have not mastered all the requisite skills. Quebec, for example, treats the primary years as three cycles of two years each. Students are expected to attain a final set of objectives at the end of the cycle (grades 2, 4 and 6) but may be passed through the odd-numbered grades despite a lower than expected performance. Although this is intended to respect each child’s individual learning pace, what your child experiences in the classroom may not live up to the ideal. Continuing to do some academic activities one on one with a parent over the summer may be enough to catch her up, and it will certainly boost her self-confidence.

Daily Summer Activities consists of ten weeks’ of activities. Each week breaks down into ten pages. There is also space to tick off the pages completed, and to check off each block of ten minutes’ reading. Finally, there is a spot to write interesting things that happen during the week. Activities cover skills in core areas such as math, language arts and social studies. There are also reading lists and activity suggestions for parents. The workbooks, in ebook format, are currently reduced as part of the Back to the Beach Sale at CurrClick.