The jump from 4th grade to fifth grade seems to be a life changing stage from tadpole to frog style in terms of a kid's learning life cycle. While in fourth grade, they learn how to write structured paragraph, know frequently mispelled words, learn about two dimensional figure in math, in fifth grade, their comprehension is expected to ramp up immensely. Preparing them for the real world and engaging them with it, teacher consultants suggest usng the summer time between fourth and fifth grade for various tyoes of reading. Pick up a subject your child is interested in, and give them access to books both in nonfiction and fiction style. Getting them involved in community. Summer Bridge activities is on right track with exposing your child to fact and fiction books. I personally like the fitness activities. When it comes to math, the key thing is seeing it in real life. So when kids do the grocery bill, or calculating the distance to travel on trips (in the book, there's an activity with calculating based on scale, which will help kids learn reading distance sin map), they will see it less as math and more as fun. The book is full of reading comprehension passages on variety of subjects like astronomy, bird watching which is a great way to introduce them to new subjects and see if thats a new point of takeoff for their further reading. The experiments on making backbone, sunscreen protection are fun and educational.
