This is a great book to use to work with your child a little (10 minutes) every day during the summer months to keep the basic math and language skills up to snuff. It has lots of motivating rewards built in and my kids actually agreed to do it, in order to get the rewards. It was also a good opportunity for me to sit down with each of them and learn what they did and did not know from the expected grade-level skills. And to focus on the short-falls. I have used each of the books in the series now for the last 2 years and will again this year. Summer Bridge Activities: 4th to 5th Grade
We've used the Summer Bridge series for 4 years with our kids and love the product. The series covers math, reading, and writing with equal emphasis. There are occasional activities that are fun rather than just educational. As a parent and educator, I would highly recommend this.
We started using the bridge books between Kindergarten and 1st grade. This books are wonderful for helping maintain and sharpen skills over the summer. Each page takes no more than 20 minutes to do. I love the spelling lists and the reading lists that are in each book as well.
Like most kids my son does not look forward to having to do a little work over the summer but this book gives you maximum results for minimal effort. He enjoys setting a goal and reaping the rewards that come from it. The tracking charts in this book make it very easy to do.
The Summer Bridge series has always been our favorite way to retain skills that were learned the year before over the summer break. This workbook is no exception. The exercises are comprehensive, alternating writing, math, geography, history and logic activities in a fun and challenging way!
I bought this for my son this year because his forth grade teacher kept emphasizing how the work in 5th grade is much more challenging. I think that 95% of the activites are grade level appropriate. I agree that some of the geography and social studies assignments can be challenging as the provide little or no resources for the student to complete the task (example the seven regions of our country. As an English teacher I really disliked the contractions assignment. There are twelve and in Ohio we only actually use 4 of them in our everyday speech. I had never heard of win't or who're. So that assignment was tough for us. :) Other than that I think the workbook has been very beneficial for simple weekday homework. I would recommend this book to others.
Great way to keep the kids from watching too much TV, while grandma' watches them during the summer. At my house we have a Summer Prize Jar, which includes various summer activities we can do as a family with little or no cost (i.e. hiking, bowling, skating, camping in the backyard, etc.) When they complete a week's worth of their Summer Activity workbook, they get to choose a prize. It keeps them motivated, excited and most importantly learning!!
After many summers of inconsistently creating my own academic work for my children to complete, I decided to try the Summer Bridge Activities books. I purchased the 1-2 book and the 4-5 book for my boys. We are only through week three, but I am very satisfied and will continue to purchase these books in the future. The grade 4-5 book has a nice balance of busy work and thought provoking writing assignments. The structure of the book seems to take the pressure off of me, so I don't feel like I am hounding them to do their work. I put the books out at breakfast and they are usually finished in 20-30 minutes. I think they will cruise right into the school year without a hitch.
I was very happy with this book for my son going into 5th grade. I wanted him to keep up his math skills - the book is wonderful for that! There are some sections (social studies, history) that I ended up crossing off because I thought it was just too hard. Some of the writing I changed up a little to make it more interesting for my son (who doesn't want to write!) I will definitely do this again next summer. - Workbook - Work Book'
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