I bought K to 1, 1st to 2nd, and 3rd to 4th. These are definitely better than the First Grade Bound (etc) that I bought last year (those ones had no order, no plan, and didn't match grade levels well). I really liked the daily break down of the Summer Bridge books. It was a clear and easy to follow - so easy the kids didn't need me to tell them what to do each day. They matched grade level fairly well. But holy cow these books are BORING! It's just work. Blah. There is no attempt to actually engage the children, just busy work. My husband and I are college graduates and are education-minded. We push our kids to learn for learning's sake, but these books make education as boring as it can get. If you want bland just-do-this-and-get-it-over-with work to keep the brain going, these are more than adequate. I'm looking forward to trying out the Brain Quest Summer books which seem to make it more of a game and the activities are not just long lists of boring-ness.

My other complaint is the inconsistency in the grade levels. The 1st to 2nd grade was the best one - well balanced and challenging enough to keep the brain going, but easy enough for light summer work. It had a particularly good ratio of math, language, reading, writing, and social studies and pretty much all of the activities were manageable with the right amount of challenge.

The K to 1 book was mostly ok. The first of the three sections was so ridiculously easy that my daughter did it all on her own before school was even over (she wanted to!). It was activities like circling the right number of apples or just writing a single letter a bunch of times. She finished what was supposed to be a month's worth of work in about a week in her spare time. Fortunately we didn't need all three sections since their summer is only 9 weeks, so the other two sections got us through the rest of the summer doing a two-sided page "day" 5 days a week.

The 3rd to 4th grade book had the opposite problem. It started off great, but halfway through the second section much of the math was getting overly busy and sometimes too complex. There were many division problems that are beyond what he had learned in 3rd grade, and he's in G.A.T.E. In class they only covered multiplication and division 0-12. Example: 496 / 4 = ___. Example: A word problem where he has to work out either 162 / 18 or 18 x __ = 162. He got the concepts as I taught them, but it was frustrating. Some activities were just too lengthy for a quick summer book, such as a set of 10 addition problems like this: 8214 + 7716 + 6389 = ____. It's not that it was hard, but does he really need to do 10 of those, on top of three other activities? One of which is MORE math? There were many times his brother and sister would be done with their books plus 20 minutes of reading and in the pool while he was still working. Granted he likes to stall, so I always had him finish it to avoid rewarding his stalling, but I have to admit that I thought it was too much busy work. That and I found myself teaching him stuff he'd never seen before.

Bottom line is that these books were inconsistent and tedious and I will try others before I buy them again.

We ordered this workbook as well as the summer brain quest for this age group, and we definitely prefer this one. It suits our goals for a summer workbook and also meets the needs and skills of our child. I felt like it did a pretty good job reinforcing the things learned in K5. I'm hoping to see positive results when school begins.

I bought this for my granddaughter to use over the summer to keep up her skills. We have been happy with it so far. We started late, so she has been doing more than one days worth of work. This has not been an issue with her because she enjoys it. Some of the more critical reviews have said it's too easy. It is fairly easy and she has had no problem doing the work, but it's summer work. I didn't really want her learning new things, just keeping up practice on what she already knows. If you think it will be too easy, I would suggest buying the next book up.

I have "Maw Maw School" with my grand children ages 4 and 6.. They go to public school but when they visit, which is often, I like to do fun things that also incorporate learning. This workbook was one of 2 I bought for their age groups. It has age appropriate activities in them. They offer enough challenge to promote learning. Love the she sheets of stars in the back of the books, the kids love working for stars. Also has flash cards in the back of the books that they can cut out and use for further learning use. I highly recommend the summer bridge activity books.

This was a great book full of all different types of activities. My daughter told me this book was fun and would bring it out frequently to work on. We did not follow the schedule as it is set up in the book. I will definitely continue to buy these books every summer.