Detailed Product Description
Summer Book 2 (3rd edition) is for students entering second grade.
It contains fifty pages of activities. The top half of each page reviews math concepts. The
bottom half of each page reviews phonics/language concepts. There are thinking
skills or simple reading comprehension exercises on the back of each page. A
complete answer key is located at the back of the book and may be easily removed.
Some of the math concepts reviewed are:
- adding and subtracting with the basic facts
- recognizing shapes
- coloring fractional parts
- working with place value
- telling time
- counting money
- solving word problems
- counting by twos, fives, and tens
- completing patterns
- using greater than and less than symbols
Some of the phonics concepts reviewed are:
- recognizing vowels and consonants
- making compound words
- filling in the blanks to complete words
- arranging words in alphabetical order
- writing rhyming words
- dividing words into syllables
- recognizing prefixes and suffixes
- understanding contractions
- recongizing synonyms
- distinguishing between homonyms
- writing sentences
Think-A-Minutes A1 This collection of popular quick, fun thinking puzzles and games that develops a variety of critical and creative thinking skills for top academic performance in all subjects. The book includes language development, math, writing, visual, spatial, and perceptual skills activities that build deductive, inductive, and logical reasoning.
Train Time Dice Game Build a better train! When played by the simple rules, this fun game for children in the lower elementary grades teaches counting and addition. If the train dice game is played with all the rules and all the scoring strategies, it is a challenging game even for adults, so big brother or sister will enjoy it, too.