Summer Blast

Full-color student practice pages bring 27 language arts, 27 mathematics, and 27 critical and creative thinking activities to life while supporting content learning in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and art. With critical-thinking puzzles and a theme-based art activity for each unit, students will develop important 21st century skills.

Including a Parent Handbook for Today's College and Career Readiness Standards, this resource addresses key features and shifts of today's standards which prepares parents to help their child successfully navigate the standards. Additionally, parents are provided with easy-to-implement family activities that foster everyday learning, including:

• what to do during common family field trips
• website-based science labs with online procedures and ideas
• top 5 lists of books to read aloud, games to play in the car, and recommended educational websites and apps