 Hey everybody, welcome to The Waldoch Way. My name is Jessica. Today's video is going to be a look inside three different summer workbooks. Now you guys heard me talk about the summer brain quest and the summer bridge activities book in our summer plans, because I'd picked both of them up and I wasn't sure what you were gonna be using. And then a lot of you also commented that you had picked up the daily summer activities from Evan Moore. So we have the summer brain quest, the summer bridge activities, which is by Carson DeLosa, and the daily summer activities, which is by Evan Moore. So I'm just gonna briefly show you inside all of them, tell you which one Emily gravitated towards by first impressions, and then tell you my first impressions of the three as well. Hopefully this will help you pick the one that's right for your kiddo. Okay, we are gonna start with the summer brain quest because it's sitting right here. Every one of the ones we are looking at today is going to be for between third and fourth grade. So if your third grader is done and then moving into fourth, this is the specific workbook we're looking at. The summer brain quest includes science, social studies, English, language arts, and math. There is a fold out summer progress map, over 150 stickers, and 158 pages of learning fun. The pages are pre-rated, if for whatever reason you wanted to take them out. There are eight outside quest stickers for each of those, and then an award that they can get at the end. And then there's just pages. There's no like do 15 minutes a day or do this specific one on this specific day. It just has its directions, what you should do, the page for it, what skill it's covering, and then upon completion you add a sticker here, and then there's a brain box on each of them that kind of tells you a definition. So this one has like what a run on sentences, what the word economy and trade means. So we have things like prefixes and suffixes, primary and secondary sources, diverse life cycles, and then there's more stickers that you place on the map when you have completed a certain level. Here's just a look at that map. It's fold out in the back of the book. Now I'm going to show you guys the last few pages in the summer brain quest so you can see how high it goes. Advancement wise, let's see. We'll go with, this is 116. We have magical multiplication, which is like seven times two, four times blank. These are all of word problems of multiplication, and then we're doing some multiplication and division solving for in over here. Pottery patterns, here we have some cause and effect, narration, and then each one of these is like a little paragraph about a world hero, and you're going to write the similarity and difference for comparing them. So that is about how advanced it gets, and then there is an answer key. So if you need that answer key, it is in there. And if you're familiar with brain quest at all, one of the things that they are very popular for is their trivia. They have like brain decks, and there is a mini brain deck in the back of here. So it has questions on one side and answers on the other. There are about 12 little question decks back here, and each of them have four questions. One for math, one for English, one for science, and one for social studies. There is also a little section for book reading. It suggests a few fiction books, and then you can write a review for each of those, and it does the same for nonfiction. Okay, so that is the summer brain quest. Next, let's look at the summer bridge activities. This one is the one that I said was back here from Delosa. So it is 15 minutes a day. It includes reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and fitness, and there are bonus flashcards and stickers. All right, this one has a table of content, so I am going to sit here for just a second. Actually, let me even zoom in for you guys. Okay, so there's the table of contents in case you wanted to see it. Has all of the skills matrix. Their summer reading list is right here in the front. There is fiction, and then on the backside, there is more fiction, and then a list of nonfiction. So there's two pages of summer reading. And then it gets straight into, there is a monthly goals and a monthly word list for each of the months, like when you start for section one, and it talks about the different physical and flexibility things. That's what you're gonna be doing is an introduction of flexibility in section one. And then it gets straight into this is day one. Day one is front and back. So each day is basically one piece of paper front and back. These, again, just like the other one, are perforated, so you could pull them out if you wanted to. So here we are solving word problems. Here we are reading a group of related words and writing two more words for that group. We are reading the passage and answering the questions, and then there's a little factoid down here. There are stickers, and this one as well, you place a sticker at the bottom of the page when you're done. And so it just goes on like that. Every day, you're doing the front and the back of one until you get to the end of the section. At the end of the section, there is some bonuses. This is a science experiment. There is a social studies activity as a bonus as well. And then you get into section two, which would be a new month. So you have monthly goals and word lists again. And then section two is again, 20 days, front and back. Here you are doing multiplication and division and matching them to each other. Writing a book report of your favorite book, using quotation marks on a separate sheet of paper, write a story about one of these. Here's like props for you to pick from. Do you think that a student should have to wear school uniforms? Why or why not? State your opinion and provide reasons to support it. And then this is sorting between common and proper nouns. So there are three sections. I believe there's three sections. Yes, there's three sections to this book. Each section is set up the same way. There's bonuses at the end. There's 20 days within it. Each day is front and back. There's stickers and factoids. I'm gonna show you the last few lessons so you can get an idea. Okay, here we are rewriting the fractions as decimals, reading each group of words and writing an S if it's its sentence, F if it's fragment, R if it's run on. Where would you best find these answers on a globe in a dictionary or in a cyclopedia? So it asks questions. Proof reading. So you're gonna use different proof reading marks and proof read these sentences. And then you're reading passages and answering the questions. Here is subtraction, parallel and perpendicular lines, rounding each number to the nearest place shown in the parentheses. So 10,000, 1,000, 100,000. And then again, there's some bonus pages for science and social studies. There is an answer key in case you need it. And then here are those flashcards. It looks like these flashcards are probably, these look like sight words. These look like vocabulary words. And then you have some angles, place value, factors, fractions. So it's a little bit of everything and then a certificate of completion. There's your little star stickers that you use when you complete it. So that is the Carsten DeLosa Summer Bridge activities. The last one we have to look through is daily summer activities and this is the one that's by Evan Moore. It includes reading, math, spelling, critical thinking and geography. And it too has stickers included. It is set up in 10 weeks. There is a skills matrix in the front. And then it tells you what's in this book and how to use it. There is a spelling list that contains the weekly spelling words that are gonna be practiced in the book. And then the way this one works is when you finish for each day, you color in the stars. And then it tells you your spelling words on the front of week one. Write about one thing you did each day. Color a book for each 20 minutes you read. My favorite book was and I liked it because. So this is a weekly kind of dashboard. Here you are going to be reading and answering the questions. This is Monday and this is Monday as well. So it looks like each day is gonna be front and back of one piece of paper. So here we are rewriting the sentence correctly. We are doing multiplication, single digit multiplication. We are spelling these words. We're gonna read them in circle, different ones. Here is handwriting practice in cursive. Language bytes, this is multiplication with missing factors. Reading about Florence Nightingale and answering the questions. There's language bytes, math time, writing a list, doing geography. So up to this point, this is Friday. So we have just finished and we're starting. This is the last of Friday. So now we're in a new week. So that was one week's worth of work. So I'll show you one more time what one week looks like. Here's your dashboard with your spelling words. Writing something you did each day. Coloring your book, your favorite book. Please make sense. Find the nonsense word in each pair of sentences. Correct these sentences. Here is math and you're gonna fill in the table blanks here using some spelling and writing. Language bytes, this is talking about plural nouns. Math time, single digit multiplication. Reading and answering the questions through a read and comprehension. Language bytes, we're writing the plural of each words. Math time, again, single digit multiplication. Geography, you're gonna use an atlas or a globe in the map of the United States to name the outlined bodies of water or the number of bodies of water. In my own words, you're gonna write a paragraph, complete these analogies for language. Here is single digit division. This is synonyms for the words underlined, word problem, and then guess who for critical thinking. So that, again, was a one week's worth. So it's front and back of one page. I am going to show you, I think maybe the last week, so you can have an idea of how advanced it gets. Here we go. These pages are perforated too, so all of them have perforated pages if you wanna pull them out. Here is the most advanced spelling list. We are doing three digit subtraction and addition, cursive handwriting, single digit multiplication, directions for baking a cake. And let's see, this looks like homonyms, adjective and adverbs, draw a map showing how to get from your home to a place you can walk. This might be a friend's house, a park, or a store labeled the street. Make a list of five words that could be used in place of the word said. Pick three and write sentences using them. Single digit division. Here we are going to be using a dictionary for these words. And then that is your critical thinking puzzle. There is an answer key in this one as well. And then in the back, there is a blank multiplication table, a cursive letter formation chart, and some stickers. Okay, first impressions. I let Emily look through all three of these. She is eight years old, almost nine. She's in third, going into fourth. Just in case you're curious. After she looked through them, the one that she picked that she thought looked like the most fun was the summer brain quest. I think that's because they do a really good job of making it appeal to the kids. They make it interesting for them. They make it fun. They make it look appealing. So this is the one that if she was to just look through them and pick one that she would pick as the kid. Now I have rearranged these in my opinion of how they go from, I guess, easier to more difficult. Of the three of these, I feel like the summer brain quest is the easiest of them. I'm not saying that it's below or above or on average as far as grade level goes, but of these three, this is the easier one. I feel like the Evan Moore Daily Summer Activities is in the middle, and I feel like the Carson Delosa Summer Bridge Activities is the most advanced as far as what's in it. So depending on where your kiddo is at, maybe you want to get the brain quest because you just want them to have something fun to do. Maybe they're advanced, so you wanna get the summer bridge. Maybe they're gifted, maybe you wanna challenge them, or maybe you just want something in the middle. So that is my opinion as a homeschool mom. This is the easier, this is the more difficult, this is kind of in the middle, but again, Emily says that this one is her pick for the most fun. I hope it helped you to see inside these to kind of see which one Emily would like best, what my opinion is on their levels, and I hope that it helps you have a fantastic, fun yet educational summer and prevent that summer slide with whichever one is right for your kids and in your homeschool.