Summer Bridge Activities. 1st to 2nd Grade :: Education by Design Store

Editorial Review
NEW and Improved Summer Bridge Activities for 2006!

This year the bestselling summer workbook features new covers, new activities, new reading lists, updated bonus sections, and a whole lot more to give kids a summer learning experience they won’t forget! Designed to keep kids busy, happy, and learning between grades, the NEW Summer Bridge Activities continues to focus on math, reading, writing, and language arts, but also includes new activities in science plus Factoids and fun to-do lists to keep brains and bodies active. Assignments build on one another as children review skills they have just mastered and preview the grade ahead!

New features include Super Summer Science experiments, skills checklists, updated reading lists, revised assignments to meet more diverse state curriculum standards, an updated bonus section, plus an updated cover and a new-look interior.

* Super Science experiments give kids a hands-on learning experience as they discover interesting facts about the world around them.

* Fun Factoids provide kids with fun tidbits of information to get their minds revved up for the educational assignments.

* Updated bonus section incorporates the new food pyramid and helps kids learn how to eat healthily.
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Customer Reviews

Fun Summer Activities that Practice Skills Already Learned

2007-06-27
I teach 4th grade and my son is entering second grade in the fall. We just received the Summer Bridge Activies book and having only been using it for 3 days, we are pleased. It provides two pages of work each day and recommends reading for 15 minutes as well. My son is an average kid and can complete all of this in less than 30 minutes. He is enjoying working with me and is proud of his ability to do most of the work himself. I appreciate that the work is practice oriented. Practice-work over the summer should be fun and encouraging, not overwhelming and frustrating. I love the reading list to take to the library. Since I teach fourth grade, I am more familiar with novels that my own students would enjoy. I would recommend this series along with another series I purchased called, Summer Smarts. Both books are worthy of money I spent on them. In fact, next Spring, I may send home a letter to my students' parents offering to purchase a book for their child for next summer.

Pretty Decent

2007-06-27
The last thing my daughter wants to do during summer vacation is more "school work", but she hasn't put up any fuss about this workbook. Each day has just two pages to complete. The work gets progressively harder so that what she's doing at the beginning of summer is so simple she doesn't complain. She doesn't even seem to notice that the work is starting to get more complex. I'll keep using these books for the next several grades.

Highly Recommended

2007-02-12
I've bought books in these series for 2 summers in a row now. They are a great way to keep key educational elements alive for your child until they go back to school, without overwhelming them with work during summer vacation. Each day has an assigned lesson and they take 10 - 15 minutes top to complete. There is a reward system so that you can set up a treat or prize if they complete a certain number of days. My daughter really liked these.

Summer Activities

2006-08-07
This series of activity books was recommended to me by a Special Education teacher last year. This is my second year using them and I have found them to absolutely wonderful and helpful. They offer grade level activities that emcompass the major areas that children need the reinforcement in during the 'off school' period. The activities are challenging but not overwhelming. My children find the books to be fun and have entered their respective grades with higher levels of confidence because they haven't forgotten anything over the summer. Their self esteems and performance in school are definitely higher because of these books. I highly recommend this series to any parent.

summer bridge activities

2005-08-02
It is a very helpful tool to help keep my child's skills fresh in his mind

Determined mom

2008-07-22
I bought this book as a gift for my neice because it was recommended to me for my daughter. It's a great activity book that reviews things learned during the year and it actually makes learning throughout the summer fun for the kids.

excellent purchase!

2008-07-12
I am so happy I bought this for my daughter going into 2nd grade. Each page just picked right up with things she'd been doing in 1st grade - but not overdoing it! This book was just right to keep the brain thinking, and yet the pages only took 10-15 min to complete. Great buy!

Keep your child's mind fresh over summer break!

2008-07-05
My husband started my son with Summer Bridge in kindergarten. He is now going into 7th grade. He's always done very well in school (straight A's) and I think SB keeps his mind fresh. We started our daughter on SB last year. There are activities for all subjects and some use of the internet is needed for research for the older kids. SB also suggests age appropriate books for your child to read. The answers are posted in the back of the book to check your child's work...let's face it, we've been out of school for a while!

Summer Bridge acitivites

2007-08-20
Goal setting with a reward a great incentive for a few pages a day.
Thanks, I'll be sure to get next years early.

As compared to other curriculum books

2007-07-08
I have tried every home curriculum book I have ever seen. This one is the best. My children can sit down and read the directions and complete the pages without my help. Each page has a reasonable amount of work problems on it. My children are oth working in the book that is for their own age. They do not find it challenging but Iam only looking for a review for them, not for them to be learning new information. We do not use the sticker/motivation program because I expect my children to do some work every day and I don't like them to think they need a reward for completing it.