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 reflects grade-level expectations and includes open-ended questions to develop your child's critical thinking skills. Fun reward stickers are also included.10 weeks of instruction cover the following skills: Language arts practice: a fiction and nonfiction story with comprehension questions each weeksentences to correct for capitalization, punctuation, and grammar10 spelling words to learn each weekcursive handwriting practicecreative writing activitiesalphabetical ordercontractionsparts of speechsynonyms, antonyms, and homophones Mathematics practice: multiplication and division factsword problemstwo- and three-digit addition and subtraction with borrowing and carryingdividing by one digitmultiplication by one and two digitsfractionsgraphing Geography skills: map symbolsmap reading