Help your child retain learning from one school year to the next with this award-winning full-color activity book series combining academic, fitness, and values fun connecting Seventh and Eighth Grade
Reinforce the skills your preschooler learned this past year, prevent summer learning loss, and help your child feel confident and ready to start eighth grade. In just 20 minutes a day, at home or out and about, Summer Fit Activities keeps growing minds active and learning all summer long! Fun, engaging, and easy to use, Summer Fit Activities reviews academic skills learned in math, science, and language arts while preparing your child for eighth grade. Daily exercise, healthy habit formation, and character development promote well-rounded students with strong leadership skills. Summer Fit Activities does not just prevent learning loss, it helps children set goals, track progress, and get outside to play and enjoy their summer vacation while preparing for the year ahead.
As both a Tillywig Toys' Brain Child Award winner and a Creative Child Awards Product of the Year, these fully illustrated and engaging activity books include grade-appropriate exercises and skills lessons in reading, writing, math, language arts, science, and geography, In addition, these workbooks place a planet-friendly emphasis on the development of a child's health and well-being, as well as core values like kindness, respect, and compassion. Each Summer Fit Activities book contains:
- An introductory Parents section with tips on engagement and Incentive Calendars
- Daily grade-appropriate academic activities based on national standards
- Daily fitness programs with exercise logs and free videos demonstrating proper techniques
- A Healthy Eating and Nutrition section
- Outdoor Summer Explorer and Summer Reading lists
- Reviews and Previews for each grade Level
- Weekly Core Values reinforce positive social skills and behavior
- Perforated heavy card stock flashcards
- Perforated certificates of completion
- Free online resources and corresponding exercise videos on the Summer Fit website
The Summer Fit Activities series was developed by a team of experts with decades of experience in education, nutrition, and fitness, and is the perfect connection between the end of one grade's learning and the beginning of the next. For parents, caregivers, homeschoolers, and teachers, this curriculum will help kids start at the head of the class in the new school year. Summer Fit Activities, teacher-created, parent-approved.
Kelly Terrill is the owner of Active Planet Kids, publisher of the Summer Fit Activities series and coauthor and collaborator for the first five volumes of the series. An educator and mother of seven, Terrill wrote the series with her own children in mind. Along with other teachers, coaches and parents, she wanted to create a summer workbook series that was uniquely designed to encourage overall growth in academics, healthy lifestyles, and character development. Terrill studied elementary education at the University of Utah. She currently lives in Arizona and enjoys cycling, hiking, reading and spending time with her family.
Lisa Roberts has been both a Registered Nurse and certified Public Health Nurse for almost twenty years. A graduate of Southwestern College and San Diego State University, Roberts is currently completing a Master of Science degree in Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion at Mississippi State University. A Public Health Nurse for the County of San Diego for thirteen years, Roberts was the local lead for The Communities of Excellence in Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention (CX3), a two-city pilot project to measure and improve nutrition in low-income neighborhoods. A contributor to the fitness and nutrition sections of the Summer Fit Activities workbook series, Roberts lives in San Diego with her family.
James Cordova has spent the last twenty-six years coaching football, track, basketball and softball, with sixteen of those years as Head Coach. He was the 2014 Nike Coach of the Year Designee and 2013 and 2014 Coach of the Year presenter. Cordova was honored as Utah Football Coach of the Year in 2007, 2013 and 2014. He has also served as a Physical Education teacher for 16 years and has additional experience as a teacher, counselor and program coordinator. In his free time James likes to mountain bike, ski, work out at the gym and spend time with friends and family.
