Summer may be a break from attending school, but it needn"t be a break from learning, thanks to Daily Summer Activities, Moving from Fourth to Fifth Grade. Life is getting more complex as Fifth Grade approaches and the exercises in this book will help your students keep pace. As someone who has already tried the series said: "Daily Summer Activities helps our students use what they have learned and prepares them for success in the coming school year." - Elementary School Principal, Greeley, CO Specific content in this volume includes: - two stories with comprehension questions each week - sentences to correct for capitalization, punctuation, and grammar - 12 spelling words to learn each week - mathematics practice-multiplication and division facts, word problems, up to four-digit addition and subtraction with borrowing and carrying, dividing by one digit, multiplication by one and two digits, fractions, graphing, geometry, measurement - language skills such as alphabetical order, contractions, parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, analogies, prefixes and suffixes - geography-map symbols and map reading - cursive handwriting practice - creative writing activities "Jackie Robinson," "The Arctic Tundra," "A Letter in the Mail," "Ordering from a Catalog," "Colorful Ramblings from a Crayon Box," and "The Hermit Crab" are just a few of the topics that students will analyze and review. The practice cards for Daily Summer Activities, Moving from Fourth to Fifth Grade are for the multiplication and division facts through the nines. The color and black & white illustrations in this book are clever, with the right amount of detail. They serve to highlight the more complex lessons appropriate for this age group. Colorful answer keys included. All 144 pages, plus eight flash card pages (printed on durable card stock), are perforated for easy removal. $14.95 each.