Summer Bridge Activities, Grades 4-5 »

NEW and Improved Summer Bridge Activities for 2006! This year the bestselling summer workbook features a new cover, 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. Updated assignments meet more diverse state curriculum standards.

Examples of new and improved assignments include: More in-depth assignments in geometry; an increased focus on creative writing (both fiction and non-fiction); measurement exercises (temperature, volume, etc); an introduction to algebraic concepts; a focus on literary devices such as similes and metaphors; and activities around dictionary and thesaurus use.

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.

The updated bonus section incorporates the new food pyramid and helps kids learn how to eat healthily.